Thursday, October 3, 2013

The power to choose


The power to choose is uniquely human. We all have a high interest in shaping the course of our lives - making the right choices and pursuing what is important to us.

One commonly held view regards choice as merely reacting to, or selecting among, the existing options. Here, at Landmark, we take another view.

We explore choice as a profoundly human ability to create. When choice is understood and known in this way, what had previously seemed simply part of “the way things are” - inevitable or impervious to change - appears in a new light. We find ourselves able to choose - to have a say - about who we are and who we will be, as the author of our lives in any and all situations.

from the Landmark Forum Syllabus