# CHI-enabled Deliberately Developmental Society **URL:** https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/chi-enabled-deliberately-developmental-society/820 **Category:** Research and Sense-Making **Created:** [July 6, 2026, 10:38am UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/chi-enabled-deliberately-developmental-society/820 "2026-07-06T10:38:17Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 21
### Author: ![dvdjsph](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/user_avatar/forum.secondrenaissance.net/dvdjsph/32/946_2.png) [@dvdjsph](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/dvdjsph) #### Post date: [July 9, 2026, 10:22am UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/chi-enabled-deliberately-developmental-society/820/21 "2026-07-09T10:22:25Z")
> [@George](#): > > The key move is to treat the thing that holds people back not as a vague atmosphere or a bad attitude, but as a _real structure with real force,_ something that actively installs limits inside us: habits of mind, ways of seeing ourselves, a sense of what’s possible that keeps us from stepping into that conscious, shaping role. If it’s real enough to produce those limits, then changing it isn’t just a nice preference; there’s a genuine reason to change it. I’d like to understand how this manifests practically with an example, if you can give one. I think I have a similar way of seeing obstacles, or blocks that can feasibly be removed, if they are correctly recognized as such - but I use different terminology. As I see it, the problems that require the level of analysis you’re offering are those that resist simple solutions. This is often because the problem-solver is stuck in a loop: their interpretation of the problem and available solutions (habits of mind, ways of seeing ourselves…) reproduces the same situation. Development is equivalent to the recognition of more freedom in the available options. For example, a smoker might want to quit smoking, but also wants calm and relief. If they can recognize calm and relief available without the cigarettes, this is recognizing more available options, and escaping the loop where the smoking habit is self-reinforcing, manufacturing the evidence that confirms its own necessity (I smoked and I felt better; I didn’t smoke and I felt stressed). --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/chi-enabled-deliberately-developmental-society/820)._