Get Oriented to Attempting the Impossible

Willingness in Extremis

In looking at creativity in endeavours (RsH), it was proposed that it emerged as part of an urge to rise to a challenge and depended on willpower.

The critical levels were the transcendence levels: it was not enough to communicate-RL5, communications needed to be intensified, not enough to have a purpose-RL6, your purposes needed to be always kept in mind, it was not enough to be willing-RL7, you had to be fully willing. Willingness-L7 combined with values-L6 is what makes all the difference between activity that is perfunctory and activity that is likely to be personally meaningful and socially significant.

Remember: The focus here is not on any particular endeavour, it is on the psychosocial functioning that supports activation and pursuit of creative endeavours.

In this investigation of the willingness domain, it has been necessary to clarify exactly what «being fully willing» entails and how it appears apart from its use in creative endeavours. The first implication is that all 7 levels of willingness will need to be activated—anything less would be incomplete by definition—and this use of all 7 levels generates a serious involvement.

Serious involvement will make all the difference for your prosperity. If involvement is selfless, it will lead you to render assistance to others. But the most significant involvement is when you are dealing with a situation that seems hopeless but you refuse to resign yourself.

Being Fully Willing starts with Hope

As developed earlier, the elements of willingness are rather ordinary psychosocial functions that become specialized by a fully conscious awareness that things may not go well and that continuance will be stressful or problematic.

Every activation of a willingness element therefore can bring with it a silent or articulated hope that the undesired and frustrating factors will not dominate and dissipate the effort.

Will that hope be realized? It is impossible to know. It just has to be activated as a matter of faith. This means that each level of willingness becomes a vehicle of faith, and activation instils hope.

Hope, by itself, is not a strategy. Nor is faith. Hope and faith often appear to be no more than wishful expectations that reveal and indulge passivity. Hope that is generated by the activation of willingness is not a strategy either, but it is far from passive: it is an active initial step required to make a meaningful difference in a challenging situation: at the extreme you are in a serious situation with apparently no way out.

To strengthen the effects of each level of willingness and put substance on the bare bones of hope and faith, the levels can be combined. Combinations can be expected to illuminate all the complex willingness forms that may need to be activated when attempting the impossible.

In THEE, combinations of levels are found in structural hierarchies and that is what will be developed n this section, grouping by grouping.

Before developing the framework for attempting the impossible:

Originally posted: 20-May-2026