Wise Sight

Summary. Perspicacity is insight, shrewdness, understanding, and judgment internally sourced and externally applied.

• Having a ready insight exercises that capacity to uncover how material and immaterial things work in the dailies.

• Shrewdness produces judgments and decisions that consider provenance, means, context, and telos.

• Accurate and deep understanding provides clarity about elements in their relations and functions.

• Good judgment is public wisdom.

Influence as Godly Connection

Summary: Disposition Is the conduit for the personal influence that links relationship with God and with community.

• Inherent qualities of mind and character, also known as disposition, are expressed through skills, strengths, and knowledge.

• Influence happens when one's disposition is relationally connected with communities.

• Proper influence is when one's personal influence is the conduit through which trust in and alignment with God and faithfulness to God are carried out in relationship with others through one's place in a community.

Emulation versus Imitation

Summary: Emulation creates expansive improvement, while imitation creates additive replication.

Emulation. The one who emulates seeks to be better than, and being better is the measure of success. The end goal is to match or surpass the model, though both model and emulator remain comrades. Emulation is expansive: the one who emulates seeks to replace the model, creating rivalry and tension while maintaining horizontal honor.

Imitation. The one who imitates seeks to be the same, and similarity is the measure of success. The imitator follows the model by copying, even if in externals alone, so the resulting simulation can have some flatness. Imitation is additive, for imitators create copies of the model. Imitator and model are in parallel, maintaining vertical honor.