Discover Your Transformation
Change your boxes and you change your world.
“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.”
Arthur C. Clarke
My name is Leon Shivamber and I am grateful that you have taken the time to visit this blog about transformation.
We are here for a short time, and I believe we all have an obligation to leave it better than we found it.
Leave it better than you found it Please Click To TweetSo in these pages, I have dedicated each word to challenging you the reader towards positive transformation.
Why is your transformation so important to me?
The short answer is that I am motivated by self-interest.
Positive social transformation results from your positive personal transformation. And that is beneficial to everyone.
Allow me to explain.
You can have a significant societal impact as you set out to rethink your boxes.
Affinity boxes are included in everyone’s collection of boxes. The affinity boxes represent the organizations to which we belong. We define ourselves using affinity, group, or identity boxes, but we also describe others using similar boxes. In doing so, we define our basic existence by associating many positive attributes with our box and negative characteristics with those who are not like us.
Consider a female versus LGBTQ or male box. You may also identify in an old versus a young box, a poor, middle-class, rich, or super-rich box, a black versus white box, or even a liberal versus a conservative box. These are all boxes that collectively define our worldviews. They play an essential role in consuming information, being viewed by others, and interacting with others.
These boxes complete us. They are the foundation of our existence. Or so we believe.
While essential to human identity and useful in navigating life’s complexities, these affinity boxes can also be a terrible burden.
All these boxes would be acceptable if they only represented demographic or marketing segmentation descriptions. Unfortunately, however, they often come with far more sinister baggage and biases.
One affinity group of Nazis so despised another affinity group of Jews that resulted in one of history’s most heinous atrocities, the Holocaust.
The toxic gravitational pull of “us” against “them” is fueled by strong identification with boxes.
And, when we attribute values beyond description to affinity boxes, we contribute to behavior at the heart of prejudice.
So, if we can break the power of affinity boxes or unbox their toxicity, we can improve how we assign boxes to others while also improving ourselves.
We positively transform ourselves and change our interactions with others for the better. As a result, we have a positive impact on others.
A better you leads to a better world!
Want to begin discovering your transformation?
- Come to terms with the fact that we live in boxes
- Find out whether you are a pessimist or an optimist. It changes the way you see the world. Start here to evaluate your pessimism/optimism
- Follow the link to my thoughts on transformation.
- Help me help you, let me know where you need more guidane or even if you think I am on the wrong track, and let’s have a vigorous debate.
- I will be adding new material regularly. Join my email list so that you would be the first to know when I post updates or new thought starters.
- Share with your friends.
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