Willpower is so common among highly successful people that many see its characteristics as synonymous with success.

The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems.

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence .

Consider prejudice. Once a person begins to accept a stereotype of a particular group, that "thought" becomes an active agent, "participating" in shaping how he or she interacts with another person who falls in that stereotyped class. In turn, the tone of their interaction influences the other person's behaviour. The prejudiced person can't see how his prejudice shapes what he "sees" and how he acts. In some sense, if he did, he would no longer be prejudiced. To operate, the "thought" of prejudice must remain hidden to its holder

Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.

By using the systems archetypes we can learn how to “structure” the details into a coherent picture of the forces at play.

People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them-in effect, they approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. The do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning.