Werner Erhard
Werner Erhard
Werner Hans Erhard:7is a critical thinker and author of transformational models and applications for individuals, groups, and organizations. He has written about integrity, performance, leadership and transformation. Werner Erhard has lectured at Harvard University, Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, University of California, Berkeley, University of Chicago, University of Southern California, University of Rochester, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Oxford Union at Oxford University, and the US Air Force Academy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 September 1935
CountryUnited States of America
What gives people superiority at a task is true intention. That makes you attuned to everything.
What I recognized is that you can't put it together. It's already together, and what you have to do is experience it being together.
Living is not the story of your life. Living is the process of experiencing right now.
Most of our notions about the world come from a set of assumptions which we take for granted, and which, for the most part, we don't examine or question. We bring these assumptions to the table with us as a given. They are so much a part of who we are that it is difficult for us to separate ourselves from them enough to be able to talk about them. We do not think these assumptions, we think from them.
Until you know that who you are is empty and meaningless, you don't know anything.
If you keep saying it the way it really is, eventually your word is law in the universe.
In life, understanding is the booby prize.
Opportunity: it's not really scarce. It's everywhere. If you really were any good, you'd be overwhelmed by it.
The reaction you got was the communication you intended.
[Alan] Watts did two main things for me. He opened up the connections between what I was doing and the traditional Oriental philosophies. And he pointed me toward the distinction between Self and Mind.
I used to be different. Now I'm the same.
Until what is significant is created by you, you aren't living your life, you are living some inherited life.
There are only two things in the world: nothing and semantics.
We assert that integrity (the condition of being whole and complete) is a necessary condition for workability, and that the resultant level of workability determines the available opportunity for performance. Hence, the way we treat integrity in our model provides an unambiguous and actionable access to superior performance (however one wishes to define performance).