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CHAPTER 18
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Articulate Your
Purposes
Let yourself be silently drawn to the stronger
pull of what you really love.
—Rumi
T
AKING ON ADAPTIVE challenges is difficult and dangerous
work. The only reason we can imagine you would want to do this
kind of work is to serve purposes that matter to you deeply. Identifying
your higher (orienting) purpose—figuring out what is so important to
you that you would be willing to put yourself in peril—is a key element
in the process of understanding yourself as a system. When you under-
stand your orienting purpose, you can understand and make day-to-
day decisions in that larger context, and you can make the tough
decisions to subordinate other important purposes to that one. When
things get tough, your orienting purpose ...