Cultivating wisdom leads to not-yet-discovered ideas, ingenious solutions, foresight and business opportunities

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X-FACTOR YOUR
BUSINESS BY
EXERCISING WISDOM
 Business case
 Personal case
 Scientific case
 What is wisdom?
June 14, 2016

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For the big decisions in life, you need
to reach a deeper region of
consciousness. Making decisions
then becomes not so much about
‘deciding’ as about letting an inner
wisdom emerge.
- W. Brian Arthur, economist and author of The Nature
of Technology, quoted in Source: The Inner Path of
Knowledge Creation, Joseph Jaworski, page 13.

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Business Case
 Breakthrough solutions
 Ideas for new business
opportunities
 Profound innovations
 Foresight
 Access to new frontiers
 Addressing the overarching causes
and systems that bring about
problems

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Personal Case
 Pursuing a wisdom path leads to
amazing vitality, meaning and joy
 Life is more interesting, fulfilling,
adventurous and exciting
 The path is thrilling, challenging
and incredibly freeing

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Scientific Case
 “The latest advances in the natural
sciences give us a new picture of
reality. … In the new concept the
universe is an organically
interconnected evolving system.”
Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New
Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World,
Ervin Laszlo, page 89.
 Being out of alignment with what
we know about the world is like
paddling a kayak upstream.

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What do I mean by wisdom?
 Knowledge,
 Experience,
 Self-awareness,
 Heart (or care about not only
myself, but others and the world),
 Creativity,
 Intuition and
 A relationship to all-that-is

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What do I mean by wisdom?
 Becoming wise requires developing our:
 Body wisdom
 Emotional wisdom (distinct from
emotional intelligence)
 Intellect
 Ability to connect with and relate to
Source, or Universal Intelligence
 Courage

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Source
“There is a creative Source of infinite
potential enfolded in the Universe.
Connection to this Source leads to the
emergence of new realities – discovery,
creation, renewal, and transformation. We
are partners in the unfolding of the
universe.”
- Joseph Jaworski, Source

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Courage
 Wisdom is outside the realm of rules,
incentives and information.
 Courage is required
 To genuinely know yourself and what
matters to you
 To understand, embrace and appreciate
our true nature and what science is
revealing about that,
 To listen to Source and
 To take appropriate action, without
necessarily knowing why or why now

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Becoming wise is about
becoming,
not learning,
yet there is learning to be done.

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