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...

I remember it well: 2 times 1 is 2, 2 times 2 is 4, 2 times 3 is 6, and so on.  Up to 12 times 12 is 144.

What a great way to learn.  I still know that 9 times 7 is 63, and lots of other tricky multiplications too.  Has this gone out of fashion with smart-phones?

Everywhere you look in the blogosphere people seem to be bothered by their inability to teach and their students' failure to learn, especially in higher education. 

Alison Gopnik, Professor of Psychology, writes: “children learn by exploring—by experimenting, playing, drawing inferences.”  True—undoubtedly and it sounds so liberating.  But they also learn by repeating things 10,000 times: for example that’s how they learn to stand up or play the violin. More...

Warning: This blog is a human story but it has a lot of references to taxonomic architecture.

I know that I can never complete the Taxonomy myself, but it seems important that I get the basics sufficiently clarified so that others can continue and complete the work.  In that regard, I recently had an interesting and gratifying experience that I would like to share with you.

When I talk about «basics», there are two sorts of «basic»: basic principles (not the focus of this blog), and basic content.  In terms of content, the underpinning forms to be discovered and formulated are the single Root Hierarchy, the 7 Primary Hierarchies and their 7 Principal Typologies.  From these 15 patterns, a couple of hundred frameworks await reflective investigators.  (I promise myself that I will use the TOP Studio to provide members with an exact count.)

The Principal Typologies are of enormous importance because More...