## Metadata - Author: [[Carol Sanford, Tom Peters, and Tyson Yunkaporta]] - Full Title: No More Gold Stars - Category: #books ## Highlights - The ability to deepen and revise our understanding, in some cases over many generations, is how we build the intelligence needed to serve the ongoing evolution of living systems. But to get there, we have a lot of work to do to dismantle the pervasive—the almost universal—processes and systems that prevent us from developing our own capacity to have direct, unmediated contact with reality. ([Location 428](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CF48NZ12&location=428)) - Promises beyond ableness are important because they arise from what is personally significant to an individual, but they reference a larger whole that extends beyond individual interests. They speak to our need to belong, not by threatening it but by revealing pathways to evolve our contributions to the webs of relationship within which we wish to be included. ([Location 774](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CF48NZ12&location=774))