Previous Page

Taking this back to the political analogy, the real power in the United States during the events of 9/11 wasn't President Bush; it was the people behind Bush like Karl Rove and Paul Wolfowitz who were counseling the President on what to say. You can achieve power for yourself, without exposing yourself on a soapbox, by convincing someone else to speak for you. You don't have to do it all; you can coach someone on what to say. Truthfully though, you don't need to treat the speaker as a puppet, instead ally yourself with people who have a place from which to speak, as they may be looking for what to say. Together you are more than you are separately.

We'd like to point out that this comes full circle with the seed text of the mastermind group movement. In Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill's book which explained the masterminding process, Hill advises creating an internal, visualized mastermind group for those who cannot find individuals with whom to work. In short, he was proposing creating an internal mastermind, which essentially brings the multimind together consciously to break down and analyze problems. In short, become a mastermind group either internally or with others to start using group synergy and learn to develop that manifestation that is more than the sum of your parts.

Who can truly say if anyone does anything deliberately? Any happening is an individualized response within a rhizomatic network⁹⁴ constructed from various elements coming together in relation to each other and acting out their natures. To whatever degree we influence any given situation we should be working to find the right components to fall into the arrangements that lead to our desired results.