Starting Point: Reality
Unscripted Leadership Project 1.5
Reality has been a question on my mind for a long time. It is a question that is also about time, the physical world, and human agency. This post is the first foray into the questions that I am asking in my book project, Unscripted Leadership: Four Questions for the Future.
I am very conscious of the potential to dilute the impact of the book by writing most of it here. For this reason, these posts will only be available to paid subscribers. I suspect what you read here will not be duplicated in the book. There is a distillation process beginning that will be interesting to experience. Therefore, I ask for your thoughts and questions.
My starting point is the question of reality, or, reality as how we experience it. Is it and “it”?
The question of reality is relevant to the discussion I have been having for a dozen years under the title The Spectacle of the Real. Is reality just a story? If you have not read this essay or the other ones that it spawned, I recommend it.
The question of reality also matters in relationships where experience confronts us. Is excellence a way to understand reality as a form of hierarchy? Is tragedy and accidents the other end of that hierarchical spectrum? Or is reality simply the environment of consequence that we all live in? These are the kinds of questions I am exploring.
Let me begin by describing some ideas related to reality.