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CONTENT
Mastering the content of
Werner's programs,
the ideas, abstracts, distinctions, processes, indeed of the entire
body of work
/ body of knowledge, calls for being facile with all of it.
Unlike other programs,
Werner's content
isn't strategic (for the most part,
participants
don't even have to remember any of it afterwards). Rather, the
content teases out a certain new space, a context for
transformation (so it's a
transformative
context that it teases out). To do so requires a certain
intentional mastery of the content (the tangible) of
Werner's work
so it doesn't obfuscate the context (the intangible) it teases out.
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PRESENTATION
Mastering the presentation of content so that it's
transformative,
requires becoming facile with presenting it coming from
being - distinct from presenting it coming from
understanding. Look: there's
nothing wrong
with understanding. Mis-caricaturing understanding as "bad" has
resulted from misconstruing
Werner's
aphorism "Understanding is the booby prize.". The fact is
that presenting content while coming from understanding, ensures it
is received by / enlivens understanding, whereas presenting content
while coming from being ensures it is received by /
enlivens being. And it's enlivened being that's the authentic
milieu of transformation, whereas understanding simply isn't
transformative
(that's the correct read of "Understanding is the booby prize.").
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LIFE
Mastering the presentation of the content of
Werner's programs
so that it's
transformative,
requires mastering your own life so that what needs to be handled
gets handled, leaving you free to present the material undistracted
by your life / supported by it. Any well-being issues must be
addressed. Any out-integrity must be cleaned up, restored. Yes I
did say "must". It's not negotiable. If your life doesn't
work,
presenting this material can't
work.
And
"without integrity
nothing works".
If you've mastered your life,
people will want whatever
you've got, even if they can't quite put a finger on what it
is.
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As per
Werner's
invitation, you're welcome to use
our home
/
living room,
and to make it your own for as long as you like. Stay as long as you
like. Leave whenever you like. Return if and whenever you want to.
We'll be here. And you get to keep whatever value you get from
participating.
It's all yours now.
And if you're then inspired to master delivering
Werner's work
in
the world,
those are my suggestions for the three things you'll need to
consider
taking on.
Postscript:
The presentation, delivery, and style of
Content, Presentation, Life: Components Of Mastery
are all my own work.
The ideas recreated in
Content, Presentation, Life: Components Of Mastery
were first originated, distinguished, and articulated by
Werner Erhard.
