Jeg gider slet ikke

"Jeg gider slet ikke. Jeg gider ikke ride, det er for stærk en bevægelse; jeg gider ikke gaae, det er for anstrængende; jeg gider ikke lægge mig ned, thi enten skulle jeg blive liggende, og det gider jeg ikke, eller jeg skulle rejse mig op igen, og det gider jeg heller ikke. Summa Summarum: jeg gider slet ikke."

- Søren Kierkegaard -

Personal Mastery

In his book about systems thinking Peter Senge wrote something that I can fully relate to. It describes my lifepath so well and explains why it is so difficult to fit in a traditional organisation:

People with a high level of personal mastery live in a continual learning mode. They never ‘arrive’. Sometimes, language, such as the term ‘personal mastery’ creates a misleading sense of definiteness, of black and white. But personal mastery is not something you possess. It is a process. It is a lifelong discipline. People with a high level of personal mastery are acutely aware of their ignorance, their incompetence, their growth areas. And they are deeply self-confident. Paradoxical? Only for those who do not see the ‘journey is the reward’. (Senge 1990: 142)