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"oughtocracy is a portmanteau of the words "ought" (indicating moral obligation or duty) and "-cracy" (a suffix meaning "rule" or "government").
Inner & Outer Oughtocracy work together.
“Can you remember who you were before the world told who you should be?” - Charles Bukowski
As an advisor, I have come to avoid to prescriptive language—or at least am trying, resisting.
Instead, I focus on the descriptive and predictive (or prognosis), both of which are conditional, e.g. “if X, then Y…”
I find that this encourages free choice, and buy-in, as well as clearer understanding of trade offs, always
This heuristic directs you to move towards autotelic behavior:
facilitate future autotelic behavior
Next is key. not create a chain of instrumental actions that presume to “some day” allow for autotelism