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Intelligence · Days 1–10Day 4

The CEO Words · Three layers, one law

The Law of Purview

Jewel of the day · Rutilated Quartz. C is who she is. E is how she works. O is what she holds and increases.

Spoken on this day

Day Four is the Law of Purview. A purview is the range of what you can see and the range of what you are responsible for — the line of sight and the scope of office in one word. Day Three set the brackets; Day Four is what falls inside your view and therefore inside your care. It is an OUT day: attention leaves you and lands on something.

The Adventure CEO begins conscious. Conscious is simply awake and aware — present to what is actually in front of her, with the eyes open and the room registering. Her way of moving is to examine: she looks closely, inspects, tests, turns the thing over. And what she holds is observation — the single seen thing, written down. One clear observation is worth a week of impressions.

The Architect becomes cognitive. She does not only see, she knows: she perceives, reasons, connects one seen thing to another and builds understanding from it. Her way of moving is to educate — what she has examined she now teaches, because a purview that stays private is wasted. And what she holds is observer: an office. The observer is the one trusted to watch, to witness, to sit in the room and report truly.

In the Sovereign she becomes cognizant. Cognizant is legal weight — to be cognizant of a thing is to have official knowledge of it and to be answerable for it. Her way of moving is to educe: to draw out, to elicit and develop what is latent, to bring a conclusion out of what was only data. And what she increases is observations, plural — which is both the seeing and the keeping. Observations are line of sight and vision; observances are the things she keeps: the hours, the rites, the laws, the honoured days. A sovereign woman's purview grows in both directions at once — she sees further, and she keeps more.

Layer One

Conscious · Examine · Observation

Layer Two

Cognitive · Educate · Observer

Layer Three

Cognizant · Educe · Observations

Layer One

The Adventure CEO

The Novice · She makes a thing profitable

She begins conscious — awake to what is in front of her. How she moves is to examine, looking closely rather than glancing. What she holds is observation: the one seen thing, noted plainly.

C

The Attribute · WHO she is

Conscious

adjective · attribute of God

Awake and aware — present to what is actually there, with nothing sleeping through it.

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  1. 01Awake; having the senses and mind in operation
  2. 02Aware of what is happening in and around her
  3. 03Knowing — present to her own thoughts and motives
  4. 04Deliberate; done on purpose rather than by habit
  5. 05Alert, with attention actually arriving in the room
  6. 06Sensible of a fact — taking notice of it
  7. 07Self-aware without being self-absorbed
  8. 08Perceiving; registering what the eye takes in
  9. 09Intentional — choosing with the lights on
  10. 10Mindful: holding the thing in view while she acts
  11. 11Wakeful, in the old sense of keeping watch
  12. 12Not asleep at the place where she is responsible
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E

The Character · HOW she works

Examine

verb · the character of the thing

To look closely — to inspect, test and turn the thing over before deciding about it.

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  1. 01To inspect closely and in detail
  2. 02To scrutinise — to study with a careful eye
  3. 03To test, as a claim, a sample or a student is tested
  4. 04To question formally in order to learn the truth
  5. 05To survey — to go over the whole of a thing
  6. 06To audit: to check the account against the fact
  7. 07To probe; to search into what is not on the surface
  8. 08To weigh evidence before forming a verdict
  9. 09To review — to look again rather than once
  10. 10To assay, in the old sense of proving a metal
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O

The Perfection · WHAT she holds and increases

Observation

noun · the office and the resource

The one seen thing, written down — line of sight turned into a record.

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  1. 01The act of watching attentively
  2. 02A thing noticed and noted — a recorded fact
  3. 03A remark based on what was actually seen
  4. 04Attention paid to something in order to learn from it
  5. 05Surveillance, in the plain sense of keeping watch
  6. 06A reading taken — as of a star, a sky or a number
  7. 07Notice: the faculty of taking in what is there
  8. 08Perception carried far enough to be useful
  9. 09A finding, before it becomes a conclusion
  10. 10Line of sight made permanent by being written
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Layer Two

The Architect CEO

Systems · She makes it profitable and sovereign

Conscious becomes cognitive — she knows, reasons and connects. What she has examined she educates others in, and what she holds is observer: the office of the one trusted to watch and report truly.

C

The Attribute · WHO she is

Cognitive

adjective · attribute of God

Knowing, not only seeing — perceiving, reasoning, and building understanding from what she saw.

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  1. 01Of knowing — relating to perception and understanding
  2. 02Able to reason from what has been observed
  3. 03Intellectual: working by thought rather than reflex
  4. 04Discerning — telling one thing apart from another
  5. 05Comprehending; taking the whole into the mind
  6. 06Analytical, in the sense of separating cause from noise
  7. 07Learning — changed by what she has taken in
  8. 08Rational: holding conclusions to evidence
  9. 09Perceptive beyond the surface of a fact
  10. 10Of the faculty by which knowledge is acquired
  11. 11Deliberative — thinking before pronouncing
  12. 12Instructive by nature, because she understands it
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E

The Character · HOW she works

Educate

verb · the character of the thing

What she has examined she teaches — a purview kept private is a purview wasted.

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  1. 01To teach; to give instruction to another
  2. 02To train the mind and the judgement
  3. 03To bring up — to rear and form a person
  4. 04To inform: to hand over what you now know
  5. 05To school — to put through an ordered course
  6. 06To develop a faculty by exercise
  7. 07To enlighten; to remove ignorance from a subject
  8. 08To coach — to correct in motion
  9. 09To cultivate understanding as land is cultivated
  10. 10From educere — to lead out what is within
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O

The Perfection · WHAT she holds and increases

Observer

noun · the office and the resource

An office — the one trusted to watch, to witness, and to report what is actually there.

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  1. 01One who watches attentively and reports
  2. 02A witness — present, and able to testify
  3. 03One appointed to be in the room and take note
  4. 04A monitor: watching to keep a thing honest
  5. 05One who keeps a rule or a rite — an observer of the law
  6. 06A spectator who is doing work, not passing time
  7. 07An examiner sent to see for the ones who cannot
  8. 08A watchman, in the old office of the walls
  9. 09One whose seeing is trusted enough to be entered as fact
  10. 10The eye of a house, an estate or a board
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Layer Three

The Sovereign CEO

Mastery · She makes it prosperous

Cognitive becomes cognizant — official knowledge, and answerability with it. She educes: she draws the conclusion out of the data. And what she increases is observations — both the sight she has and the observances she keeps.

C

The Attribute · WHO she is

Cognizant

adjective · attribute of God

Having official knowledge of a thing — and therefore answerable for it.

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  1. 01Having knowledge or awareness of a matter
  2. 02Informed — in possession of the facts
  3. 03In law: having jurisdiction, and so able to take cognizance
  4. 04Apprised, formally and on the record
  5. 05Answerable, because she cannot claim she did not know
  6. 06Conversant with the state of the thing
  7. 07Sensible of a duty as well as of a fact
  8. 08Recognising — knowing a thing again when it appears
  9. 09Attentive at the level of office rather than mood
  10. 10Acquainted with what falls inside her purview
  11. 11Alive to consequence, not only to information
  12. 12Knowing, in the way that binds
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E

The Character · HOW she works

Educe

verb · the character of the thing

To draw out and develop — to bring the conclusion out of what was only data.

draw outbring outwork outinferdevelopextractconcludelead outreveal
  1. 01To draw out or bring forth what is latent
  2. 02To elicit — to obtain a truth by right questioning
  3. 03To infer: to derive a conclusion from evidence
  4. 04To develop what exists in germ into what it can be
  5. 05To extract, as a chemist extracts what was dissolved
  6. 06To bring out a quality that was present but unseen
  7. 07From educere — to lead out
  8. 08To deduce, in the sense of reaching the ruling
  9. 09To evoke a latent capacity in another person
  10. 10To distil many observations into one finding
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O

The Perfection · WHAT she holds and increases

Observations

noun · the office and the resource

Plural — the seeing she has gathered, and the observances she keeps.

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  1. 01Many recorded seeings — a body of noted fact
  2. 02Readings taken over time, from which a pattern appears
  3. 03Findings: the collected work of a watching eye
  4. 04Remarks worth keeping because they were earned by looking
  5. 05Observances — rites, hours, laws and days kept faithfully
  6. 06The keeping of a rule, as well as the noticing of a thing
  7. 07Vision widened: seeing further than the day requires
  8. 08Line of sight extended across a whole estate
  9. 09The log of a house — what was seen, and when
  10. 10Increase measured in what she sees and in what she honours
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The Wardrobe & the Adventure · Day 4

The Long Winter at Valley Forge

Adventure CEO · Form

Winter coat, mended

frost-blue felted wool

You keep going in conditions you did not choose.

Architect CEO · Function

Drill sash

buff twill

You repeat the small motion until it stops needing you.

Sovereign CEO · Dominion

Officer's collar

midnight broadcloth

You hold the standard when nobody is watching.

Where this law was proved · Pennsylvania, America · 1777

An untrained army drills itself into an army in the cold

The lesson from the past

The season that looks like waste is the season the discipline is installed. Nothing was won that winter; everything was won because of it.

The future it opens

Your hard month is not a delay in the plan. It is the part of the plan that makes the victory keepable.

The burden Christian sets down today

The belief that hard means wrong.

From the classics · Hinds' Feet on High Places

Sorrow and Suffering give Much-Afraid their hands — and turn out to be the two who get her up the mountain.

The Classics Shelf →

Write it by hand · the day's three lines

  1. 01What is this winter installing in me?

  2. 02The drill I will repeat daily this month:

  3. 03Who am I holding the standard for?

Connected · Cooperative · Coordinated. Establish · Extend · Expand. Organization · Organizer · Organizations. Same law, three heights: profitable, then profitable and sovereign, then prosperous.

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