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Deeply troubled, I felt I had no power in life. "Knowledge is power," a very wise man once said. So I decided to start my journey seeking knowledge at my place of work.
The next day I began to seriously study my place of work for the first time. I observed other people doing their jobs and even asked them questions. Immediately I noticed that the more I started to learn about the business, the more power I felt.
So, I became the pupil, and my place of work was the school. As I educated myself about the business, I acquired more and more integrated knowledge. After just one week, I could feel that this process of building integrated knowledge would inevitably deliver more and more power, promotions, and pride.
Without my Six Visions alerting me to my stagnation-trap, then success would have forever eluded me. That trap was the opposite of what guaranteed wealth and happiness -- the opposite of integrated knowledge. That trap was disintegrated knowledge in the form of specialized tasks. Doing the same routine of specialized tasks every day caused me a lifelong rut of stagnation. Yet wealth and happiness now seemed attainable with another way of thinking that had never been introduced to me under the old code. That other way of thinking was: integrated thinking. With integrated thinking, I was no longer trapped by specialized tasks in an inescapable routine rut. My mind, like everyone else, had always been trapped in a narrow sphere of specialized thinking...just following a very limited routine of specialized tasks that my leaders set out for me. Now, with integrated thinking, I began to lead myself.
As I gained integrated knowledge about the business, responsibilities began to flow to me. People began to come to me for answers -- for leadership. "Don't be bashful," I told myself. "Use your integrated knowledge and give them guidance. Take control."
I realized I had been taught not to take control, but to do as I was trained. "Our leaders do not want us to gain integrated knowledge and take control," I told my friends. I knew that I had never acquired integrated knowledge before simply because I was never introduced to the concept. I was never shown how, and I never saw anyone else going after integrated knowledge. But acquiring integrated knowledge and taking control was actually very natural...and fun. It sure beat my boring routine rut.
Why do our leaders make our jobs specialized traps? I thought back over my Six Visions. The Fourth and Sixth Visions in particular had given me some unforgettable insights into our stagnation traps. With those in mind, I went to see my father who was a former Senior Research Chemist for Du Pont.
I explained everything to him. My father smiled knowingly as I said, "Dad, the success-bound integrated thinker digs for integrated knowledge and begins to build his way out of his rut toward success. No one can stop him. He will eventually rise to the top of the company and begin nipping at the heels of the people in upper management. He will eventually take over their jobs."
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