Beyond I-Ching — 3½ Concepts to Transform your Mind and Change your Life

Dr Michael Heng
ILLUMINATION
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6 min readApr 28, 2020

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3 Concepts plus another ½ to Rule them all. Become a Change Mastery Leader using ancient wisdom and modern thinking to engage your problems and change your life forever.

Long before other people, the Chinese civilisation had developed functioning socio-political systems and a rich intellectual and philosophical culture. As a Chinese but raised in the way of Western knowledge and social sciences, it was only recently that I became inspired and drawn into the wonderful beauty of the philosophical eco-system elements responsible for the exceptional mindware of the Chinese people. The lessons about change and change management can be applied to every aspect of life, work and play.

I have also added a half (½) Concept to the 3 Basic Concepts in the ancient Chinese Book of Changes, the I-Ching (or Yijing), to complete my understanding in order to share with others their application for today’s environment. We can combine its ancient wisdom with Western (and other) philosophical thought to better engage the VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) world today.

The I-Ching (Yijing) was developed as a philosophical taxonomy to describe Nature and provide…

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Dr Michael Heng
ILLUMINATION

Top 50 Global Thought Leader and Influencer on CSR, Explorer, Enabler. Top Writer in Poetry. Drives ventures and enterprises. ILLUMINATION Editor and Writer.