Reached for: Self-Improvement (Elevation) (I)
“One more level and I'll be acceptable. It's been one more level for twenty years.”
The programme of continual self-elevation is an appeal filed upward, aimed past every human audience at some final office expected to issue approval. It grows out of parenting where the standard moved and nothing done was ever recorded as done right. What it asks for is a single act declared sufficient without a review above it.
Nimrod, raising a tower course by course toward the one authority he needed to answer him. The task is to stop building for a verdict that was never going to be delivered from above.
- Essence
- Earned Worth
- Rule
- If I can climb high enough, whatever judges me will finally sign off on me.
- Substance / Activity
- Self-improvement; continual self-elevation and betterment programmes
- Archetype
- Nimrod
- Emotional theme
- Never-sufficient worth appealed upward
- Behavioural pattern
- Endless raising of standards; every gain becomes the new minimum
- Family dynamic
- Perfectionistic parenting in which nothing the child did was right
- Core wound
- Nothing I produced was ever accepted, so I keep producing proof
- Exit
- Declaring one thing good enough without submitting it for review
What is the "Reached for: Self-Improvement (Elevation) (I)" pattern?
The programme of continual self-elevation is an appeal filed upward, aimed past every human audience at some final office expected to issue approval. It grows out of parenting where the standard moved and nothing done was ever recorded as done right. What it asks for is a single act declared sufficient without a review above it.
What does "Reached for: Self-Improvement (Elevation) (I)" sound like when it shows up?
One more level and I'll be acceptable. It's been one more level for twenty years.
What is the archetypal form of "Reached for: Self-Improvement (Elevation) (I)"?
Nimrod, raising a tower course by course toward the one authority he needed to answer him. The task is to stop building for a verdict that was never going to be delivered from above.
This is a pattern. Not a verdict.
It appears in many lives.