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Same as “GWD.F”
We're taught to run from tension, in this society, aren't
we? Tension is bad! There is such a
thing as destructive tension, anxiety, too much stress. But, Dr. King, the first reference I've seen with the notion
of creative tension, said nothing positive happens without creative
tension. A young doctor is on a country
road and she comes over the top of a hill and sees splayed out in front of her
a horrific airliner crash, bodies lying all over the field. She's instantly infused with creative
tension - a horrible situation on the one hand and the awareness that she has
the skills to ameliorate some of that suffering
on the other. And were she a
coward, she would flee the scene, but she became a doctor to help humanity. So instead, she embraces that creative
tension and that's the energy that drives her to sheroic, ceaseless,
courageous, effective, brilliant, inspired effort, and results.
Rather than turning away from, looking at the horrific
treatment by society of people who
looked like him, Dr. King and those working with him turned to squarely face
the horror of what was being done and in doing so thy caused the creative
tension - of the horror, on the one
hand, and the remedy - techniques they begin to learn and re-learn from Gandhi, from Jesus, from other sources of
wisdom, on the other. They began, they
refused to not have an answer, they refused to not be an answer, and by, on the
one hand, turning and facing the horror, turning and running toward the emergency,
their nervous system mobilized and they began to see how they could stop it,
and they became volcanoes of creative tension. And by holding that, and
maintaining that tension within themselves, those in their circle with any
humanity at all began to be infected by the same creative tension and a level
of humanity and creativity and contribution and output and courage and
perseverance that the world has rarely seen, was the consequence, was
unleashed.
And so was the cycle of the young people into Tahrir Square,
in Egypt, that unlike their parents who for 30 or 60 years had turned away from
the horror, they turned and faced it,
and began to develop the other pole of creative tension which is - here's how
we can fight it, here's how we could win it, and maintain that creative
tension. And the whole world became infected with it to a degree, and came into
solidarity.
The function of a leader is to cause that creative tension
to build and be maintained within themselves, and to channel it, and thereby to
help build, maintain it in others and to channel it in others. So says Dr. King. So says MIT’s Peter Senge, “The Fifth
Discipline,” So says any honest experience you have had of such creative
tension, and where it came from. The
individual and the group holding within themselves, squarely facing the horror
on the one hand of the current circumstance, and the divine joy of, the relief for totally ameliorating horror,
they could bring about, in the other.
Holding, maintaining, channeling Creative Tension is the
stuff of miracles; the stuff of True Leadership, INSHE Warriors. This is the stuff of the divine, this is the
stuff of our highest humanity, this is what would save the future of all
humanity in a relative walk, effort wise, versus World War II, and a relative
'walk' technological development wise versus the moonshot.
Leadership is the creation, first in oneself and then
spreading to others and the maintaining and channeling of creative
tension. Leadership is not subordination
of others, domination of others, exploitation of others. It's what Jesus said - 'The greatest among you is the greatest
servant all.'
Being the first or among the first to turn and face the
horror, the emergency of others, and to begin to figure out the solution is the
greatest service that one human being can provide to another. Sometimes it's lonely, no, it's almost always
lonely, sometimes you get crucified for it.
Sometimes you get abandoned for a long time. But if you align yourself with the truth of
the human need, facing the horror, your nervous system will begin to figure out
what to do. The creative tension in you
will build. And if the one in a million
in this society that still has substantial human health comes by you, they will
begin to be infected. There has never
been another way to bring massive change to humanity. It’s how the human nervous system, individual
and collective works, when it works miracles.
That's the path. Get
on with it ,for the joy of it. For the
life of it. For the life, for the future
of 200 billion of our brothers and sisters, including your own children.
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