Chapters 8 to 10

We are now entering the inter-personal domain of abundance/ scarcity. I discuss 3 yin-yang regulators that operate at the inter-personal/ group level. These are Belonging, Conflict and Anxiety.

Belonging

Chapter 08

We begin with the story of Boca, a young indigenous man, who was about to be court-martialed. The event turned into a reenactment of Australia’s long simmering racism, as Boca tried to honor his tribal traditions and to gain acceptance within an all-white establishment

Conflict

Chapter 09

I begin with a story about the battles between my greatest academic adversary and myself, which were relatively fruitless until a crisis hurled us onto a healthy path.

Anxiety

Chapter 10

Upon completing my graduate education, I accepted a teaching position at Melbourne University. My first course was with 50 MBA students who were my age.

In these four chapters, I introduce what I am calling the abundance-scarcity rheostat, which functions in a manner similar to the yin-yang regulator. As the nature of this balancing mechanism becomes clear, it seems that abundance is more about just enoughness than extravagance.