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%TEACH EXAMPLE ROLE MODEL APPRENTICE HERO ADMIRE 960112 
                                                           
                                                           
     We  are  taught by watching the behaviors  of  people 
whom we admire and/or need to treat with respect.          
                                                           
     By  watching people's behaviors we internalize  their 
patterns  of  assumptions,   beliefs,   convictions,   and 
attitudes---even  though  none of them are articulated  in 
words of any kind.   We transmit and receive  assumptions, 
beliefs, convictions and attitudes via behaviors which are 
based thereupon.                                           
                                                           
     Only the more creative,  imaginative and visionary  a 
person  is  able to transcend  dysfunctional  patterns  of 
assumptions, beliefs, convictions and attitudes which they 
have  watched  in  other people.   People  who  are  dull, 
unimaginative,  and of distorted or clouded vision are not 
able  to  transcend dysfunctional patterns---and  tend  to 
copy them thoughtlessly.                                   
                                                           
     Even  people who are able to recognize  that  certain 
people's patterns of assumptions, beliefs, convictions and 
attitudes are dysfunctional,  unhealthy and disintegrative 
may  not feel secure enough in their recognition to act in 
ways  which  lead  to  their transcendence  of  what  they 
recognize to be dysfunctional.  It takes courage and power 
as  well as insight and wisdom to transcend the  influence 
of addictive organizations and their leaders.              
                                                           
     See the previous essay.                               
                                                           
                         (c) 1997 by Paul A. Smith in      
                      "Search for Integrity and Honesty"   
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)

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