ORIGINALLY WRITTEN IN 2012 but not posted till 2025.

This life is not just physics and biology. 

It is also experiential and social. Any reduction or contempt for this meta-reality (metaphysics) prevents us studying how we are creative and ethical. When we create or make a moral choice it feels real because it is real. Being real, it has real-world effects apart from neuronal firing. Ignoring these effects is dangerous, really dangerous—just as ignoring a safe falling onto your head is dangerous. On the other hand, you can ignore your neurons entirely: there will not be the tiniest difference to what happens. 

If you have a scientific bent, as I do, then you will believe that anything that is real can and should be studied.  I call this meta-reality: psychosocial reality.

Grasping personal psychosocial reality is tricky because More...

Mastery: it takes willingness.  More particularly it depends on learning in a way that uses your willingness to the full.  But you have to be willing.

I am always amazed at just how often willingness is omitted in academic models and management consulting tools.  Even the famous GROW model—Goals, Reality, Options, Will—pussyfoots.  But willingness cannot be taken for granted and, rather than being synonymous with will, it is the 7th Level in the Will Hierarchy.  Consciousness in Western society has not yet fully embraced this highest experience-dominated level (nor the 7th Level of many other THEE frameworks).

Learning is a manifestation of willingness-PH7 and is current located at level-6. Becoming maximally effective, mastering something that is important to you, is surely related to learning.  I noticed that mastery can be developed in distinct and contradictory ways. This is precisely what characterizes a Principal Typology in THEE.

A dollop of generous help has let me work out the Principal Typology nested in Learning-L6 within Willingness-PH7.  This blog provides some initial thoughts:More...