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Four Days in the Dark

The Myths That Make Us

CHAPTER

The Power of Listening

Most spiritual people will flinch when they hear this, thinking that to strategize is inherently anti-spiritual. I think a metaphor that will help the spiritually inclined to think of strategy is orchestration or orchestrating. To orchestrate is to arrange the elements of a situation to produce a desired outcome. When we throw a party for a friend, we are engaging in orchestrating. The beauty of civilization when it is beautiful is the embodied act of orchestrating.

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