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The organism has one basic tendency and striving – to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism Carl Rogers – Client-Centred Therapy (1951) p.487 Whether we are speaking of a flower or an oak tree, of an earthworm or a beautiful bird, of an ape or a person, we will do well, I believe, to recognize that life is an active process, not a passive one. Whether the stimulus arises from within or without, whether the environment is favorable or unfavorable, the behaviors of an organism can be counted on to be in the direction of maintaining, enhancing, and reproducing itself. This is the very nature of the process we call life. This tendency is operative at all times. Indeed, only the presence or absence of this total directional process enables us to tell whether a given organism is alive or dead. I'm also torn, as I'm the kind of person who finds gongs between chapters aggravating (I listened to the audio book). Still, Rubin's book achieves what it aims at: Readers get a sense of the great producer's thinking and work habits. Not all of his ideas are groundbreakingly new, but that doesn't mean they're wrong (the structure is slightly meandering and partly repetitive though).

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McGilchrist believes the essential difference between the two hemispheres is that the right “pays attention to whatever it is that exists apart from ourselves, with which it sees itself in profound relation to…[while]…the left pays attention to the virtual world it has created, which is self-consistent, but self-contained” (McGilchrist, 2009, p.93). Others, such as Owen Flanagan, Professor of Neurobiology and Philosophy, disagree with McGilchrist noting that “hemispheric differences are not well understood” (Flanagan, 2009). Whether or not these differences are physiologically attributable to the two hemispheres, I believe the conceptual differentiation provides a powerful lens through which to understand human behaviour. What you do and how you do it influences the choices you make and the way you interpret the resulting impact on you and the world. A Life Leader is looking to make sense of the meaning behind the words, the driver behind behaviours that get results that matter to you. Getting at the drivers of meaningful engagement. However, when Rogers talks about “self-actualization” he is referring to the actualisation of the self-concept and as I have outlined above, this could be a whole host of things – a murderer, a depressed person, a successful CEO, and self-actualisation would be the enhancement of these characteristics. This would mean become a better murdered, possibly a more depressed person or even a more powerful CEO. Enough philosophy for now... The book ends with a view toward the future: "The World of Tomorrow and the Person of Tomorrow," as the chapter is called. Rogers calls the Persons of Tomorrow those who are open, willing to learn and change, accepting of others, risk-takers, questioners of the status quo and traditional authority, those who make decisions based on their own thought-through convictions and experience and not the authority of persons or books outside of them, individuals who want to be themselves and to help others be who they are too. It's a beautiful picture, and I have unknowingly been moving in these sorts of directions in my own ways over the past couple of years or so.

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And that's what this book is: it is the story of Carl Rogers' life and works, including autobiographical chapters focusing on the past and present. Then you have middle sections that expand on some of his previous works, but with surprising personal additions that give insight into Rogers' himself on a more personal level. What significantly added to his own personal growth across his vivid life? The book ends with a final vision of an idyllic future, with the ideal characteristics of 'the person of tomorrow' listed as a precursor to a paradigm shift that, I believe, we are witnessing even more clearly in 2021 than when this was written in the 1980s. urn:lcp:wayofbeing00roge:epub:1d680fd6-4b9b-4b4d-b0a2-4efb8ef9ef0e Extramarc University of Alberta Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier wayofbeing00roge Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t82j7664w Isbn 0395299152 Person-centred Theory is not bias or judgemental of what is “good” or “bad” in terms of peoples direction, choices and behaviours and this is no different in regards to the actualising tendency. It is merely a motivational force which enhances our experience in whichever ways we see fit, in line with however we see ourselves. Before I go… In my own experience, I had heard of Dr. Rogers before but had never read anything by him. Mostly I heard of him when other writers would reference his work, but I don't remember any particular cases.

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McGilchrist traces the rise of the left hemisphere to the “hubristic movement which came to be know as the Enlightenment”, which saw the right hemisphere’s wisdom being devalued as “irrational and therefore wrong” (McGilchrist, 2009, p.329). Today, we observe the dominance of linear, reductionist, rational thinking in all walks of life, where this has perpetuated a culture that constantly seeks to be in control. Both our obsession with control and the illusion of it is clearly evident in society’s approach to accidents, illness and death. “The left hemisphere sees itself as the passive victim of whatever it is not conscious of having willed” (McGilchrist, 2009, p.432). Death therefore represents the ultimate challenge to our sense of control and is viewed as something to be feared and delayed, rather than accepted as a natural cadence in the ebb and flow of life. Yet, the directional tendency in them can be trusted. The clue to understanding their behavior is that they are striving, in the only ways that they perceive as available to them, to move toward growth, toward becoming. To healthy persons, the results may seem bizarre and futile, but they are life’s desperate attempt to become itself. This potent constructive tendency is an underlying basis of the person-centered approach. Carl Rogers – A Way of Being (1980) p.119 This refers to the somewhat paradoxical idea that only by allowing ourselves to be vulnerable can we truly access experiences such as joy, love and creativity—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable, but are at the centre of wholehearted living (Brown, B, 2010). Through data collected from the life stories of over ten thousand men and women, Brené Brown found that “if we want to live and love with our whole hearts, and if we want to engage with the world from a place of worthiness, we have to talk about the things that get in the way – especially shame, fear and vulnerability” (Brown, B, 2010, p.36). This is particularly true in a competitive culture where projecting strength and perfection is ubiquitous.