on being human: slideshow
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Accompanying imagery for Susanne Cook-Greuter's 2016 IEC Keynote Address.TRANSCRIPT
Wisdom out of the mouths of babes and innocents
Theresli self-‐portrait
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The Human Condition
What we share as humans 1. The odds of our birth
Specific social, cultural and linguistic conditioning into sets of values, beliefs
2. The universal need to matter 3. Appreciation of Beauty, Excellence and
story
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Ego’s life-affirming function:
To secure a sense of significance To create the illusion of permance To mitigate the fact of our mortality
and possible insignificance given our position in the vast and unfathomable universe.
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On Being Human
Excellence and beauty Music, dance and ritual Storytelling and guided
imagery (fantasy)
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Universal appreciation
On Being Human
Differences: 4. Cultural and linguistic conditioning 5. Level of ego maturity or vertical
development
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