From the book "On Becoming a Leader," Norman Lear, a well known producer, writer and activist, states that there are four steps in mastering the "context" (the society and culture in which we were born, in which our expectations, opportunities and limitations all come from,) they are as follows:
1) becoming self-expressive
2) listening to the inner voice
3) learning from the right menotrs
4) giving oneself over to a guiding vision
A quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Relience" essay:
"listening to that inner voice and going with it, against all voices to the contrary. I don't know when I started to understand that there was something divine about that inner voice...To go with that-which I confess I do't do all of the time-is the purest and truest thing we have. And when we forgo our own thoughts and opinions, they end up coming back to us from the mouths of others. They come back with an alien majesty...So the lesson is, you believe it. When Ive been most effective, I have listened to that inner voice."
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