An obligation is a requirement that binds you to someone or something. It restricts your behavior and your choices. Most of the time you may choose whether to fulfill or abandon these promises, but always with consequences.
Key Concepts: approval, asset, avocation, burden, dependence, homage, honor, promise, responsibility, reward
Obligation Archetypes: albatross, anemone, apprentice, blackbird, contract, debt, dependent, foxglove, gorilla, mermaid, muskrat, nobility, rhubarb, tax, vow
An obligation is a requirement that binds you to someone or something. It impacts your behavior and choices. Whatever you choose, you get the consequences. Big ideas You are only obligated to the consequences of your own actions and you do not need anyone’s approval to live your life. Creative work should not harm anyone, […]
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Political Apathy by Example When I was growing up, most of the adults around me seemed bitter about politics. They had lived through the Vietnam War, inflation and a great period of social change and upheaval. By the time I was aware of things, many of the adults around me had given up hope of
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Recently I was called for jury duty. At first I thought of it as a mild annoyance, and held out hope that I wouldn’t have to go (in Philadelphia you call in to an automated number the night before and it tells you if you have to report or not. The last two times I
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