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The totality of each human being is of four-dimensional: body, mind, heart, and spirit. It is physically made up of flesh, bone, blood, hair, and brain cells, and systemically of self-awareness, imagination, conscience, and free will (Covey 1989, p. 70). By using self-awareness, he is able to examine his own thoughts and has the freedom to choose his response to whatever he comes across or whatever is imposed on him. With imagination, he is able to create a (fantasy) world in his mind beyond the present reality. With conscience, he is deeply aware of what is right and wrong, of the principles that govern his behavior, and a sense of the degree to which his thoughts and actions are in harmony with the principles. And he has free will to act based on his self-awareness, free of all other influences.
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Lin, Y., Forrest, B. (2012). The Four Human Endowments. In: Systemic Structure Behind Human Organizations. Contemporary Systems Thinking. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2311-9_12
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