Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny.

Learning is all about connections, and through our connections with unique people we are able to gain a true understanding of the world around us.

When placed in the same system, people, however different, tend to produce similar results.

Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them.

Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally.

Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.

Perhaps for the first time in history, human-kind has the capacity to create far more information than anyone can absorb; to foster far greater interdependency than anyone can manage, and to accelerate change far faster than anyone's ability to keep pace.