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Workability

St Mungo, Clifton Beach, Cape Town, South Africa

June 8, 1983



This essay, Workability, is the eighth in a group of twelve adapted from my thesis BREAKTHROUGH SKYDIVING:
  1. Keeping Your Word Means Making Happen What You Said Is Going To Happen
  2. Commitment And The Willingness To Have It All Work Out For Everyone
  3. Keeping Your Word Is A Black And White Issue
  4. Packing My Own Parachute
  5. Fear
  6. Commitment Creates The Space For Keeping Your Word To Happen
  7. Skydiving
  8. Workability
  9. Participation
  10. BREAKTHROUGH SKYDIVING
  11. Seeing Is Not Believing (Seeing Is Seeing And Believing Is Believing)
  12. Attention To Detail
It is also the first in a group of two on Workability:
  1. Workability
  2. Workability II


Workability isn't a chance or random quality. Neither do things work because of luck. In fact (as Gary Player may have said) the harder I work at anything, the luckier I get.

There's a particular way in which any given thing or event works, which may or may not be the same way as how I believe or would prefer that thing or event to work.

What we want in our lives, whether we acknowledge it consciously or not, is workability. Yet we don't look to see what it actually takes to make things work.

Because we don't take cognizance of the source from where workability springs, and because we choose to remain in the realm of familiarity, the world doesn't work. The willingness to regard that as an opportunity rather than as a predicament is where self-empowerment begins.


This essay, Workability, recreates Observation 12: Things May Work In The Same Way As My Way, Or Not of my thesis, BREAKTHROUGH SKYDIVING, which is available at

http://laurenceplatt.home.att.net/breakthrough

The essay BREAKTHROUGH SKYDIVING introduces the thesis.


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