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Essays and research on impossible goals, second-order change, and human development.

Essay

Impossible Goals as a Developmental Technology

A framework for using the pursuit of impossible goals as the primary mechanism for adult development, grounded in Ken Wilber's Integral Theory and Otto Scharmer's Theory U.

Chris Roberts·April 2026
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The full lineage behind the Impossible Goals method: the developmental, systems, and complexity research the AI is built on. Eight thinkers across three phases.

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