| Personal development brings choice to the | | | | understanding. |
| individual. And I believe in choice, but, can our | | | | I believe that until we can inform people through |
| choices be limited by our maps of the territory? | | | | the process of doing and being in a manner that |
| Unless our maps are updated or at least revealed | | | | they learn to fish, instead of giving them a fish, |
| to us (usually by a personal development | | | | we will not leave the world in a much better place |
| professional) our choice of change is limited. | | | | then we found it. It is when we can teach people |
| This article is not about free will, per se, but it is | | | | how to fish (to teach them that choice of life is |
| about freedom to choose. Do we really have the | | | | constrained by ones view of life) - therefore, |
| freedom to choose between all options? Does | | | | choice is limited by virtue of the limits of their |
| everyone have the same options before them to | | | | personal and social communication (VAK, internal |
| choose? Choose happiness or sadness? Choose to | | | | dialogue, meta-states, meta-programs, the |
| listen to the boss or not listen? Choose to follow | | | | movies that play in the mind) patterns. This new |
| the judge's orders or not? | | | | psychology, which is at the heart of |
| I have a belief that we do have the ability to | | | | self-actualization psychology, is an important |
| choose, but the question I pose before us is | | | | aspect of a cultural revolution that I think is |
| choosing between which options? Do we assume | | | | necessary for the next step in the development |
| that all people have the same options of choice? | | | | of the human species. |
| The freedom to choose something is limited to | | | | So the next big question is, does your world |
| the options of choice that are before us. Where | | | | (your map) allow you to make this CHOICE of |
| do these options of choice come from? Why us | | | | this new psychology? And do you agree with my |
| of course, and when and where did they come to | | | | premise of the limits of choice being constrained |
| us? They came all throughout our lives, through | | | | by the limits of one's maps, change the map, |
| our experiences which created our ways of | | | | change the options of choice? |
| thinking, our unique language and categories' of | | | | |