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Expanding my worldview continues to be a driving force behind working toward my doctorate. I recognize the need to have my core beliefs and assumptions excavated to strengthen my leadership.\u00a0 This is one reason why the meaning map making is engaging. Friedman applies the analogy of cartographers work in illustrating the impact of anxiety on being able to explore past equators[1]<\/a>. Lieberman and Long are \u201ccartographers\u201d of sort in their unpacking of the brain\u2019s use of dopamine.[2]<\/a> Simon Winchester spins a yarn around the life of William Smith, the cartographer of geology.\u00a0 As these authors invite me to consider the cartographer\/s of my worldview, I cannot help feeling like Star Trek\u2019s Data\u2026<\/p>\n Winchester\u2019s book, The Map That Changed the World<\/em>, is partly a biography of William Smith and part history by sharing the economic, social, religious\/philosophical context of Smith\u2019s geological map making. Smith, a man of humble means and no deep education was a surveyor of coal canals.\u00a0 The hours upon hours Smith spent investigating canals, led him to be an observant researcher of the complexities of the earth.\u00a0 Discovering patterns in layers and fossil remains, Smith was able \u201cto see what others could have seen but never did, to set down on paper what others might have suspected, but never felt confident enough to declare.\u201d[3]<\/a> Smith spent 22 years researching, investigating, and drawing what is now known as the first geological map of Britain, Wales and part or Scotland which earned him the title, \u201cThe Father of Geology.\u201d Winchester clearly admires Smith\u2019s tenacity, intelligence, and visionary tendencies. And though Winchester tells the Hero\u2019s Journey[4]<\/a> of Smith, the affect his map has had on the worldview of generations that followed is profound.<\/p>\n The most fascinating part of Winchester\u2019s claim is how Smith\u2019s geological map paved the way for Charles Darwin\u2019s theory of evolution because of the \u201cprofound modification of the way in which people thought of nature, of society, and of themselves.\u201d[5]<\/a>. The burgeoning enlightenment of the 18th<\/sup> century brought with it questions about certainty; why are we here, who put us here, what assurance do we have, how do we find our place in this world all were doorways that fomented new ways of thinking.\u00a0 \u201cInstead of mapping just the surface, he [Smith] had to map what lay below it, translating three dimensions into two.\u201d[6]<\/a> That in and of itself challenged the long-held belief by the church that the earth was only 6000 years old. It also seems to have challenged the cultural identity by pushing people to consider how they must look beneath the surface of social, economic, religious\/philosophical constructs.\u00a0 Ok, maybe I am projecting my own interpretation of Smith\u2019s work, but if we are cartographers of our meaning map making, I think the analogy works. Just as Smith delved into the layers of strata, so must I if I am to expand my worldview.<\/p>\n Data\u2019s solution to a problem comes on the heels of learning about the idiom, \u201cBurning the midnight oil\u201d.[7]<\/a> His curiosity about how it came to use in contemporary language reveals programming that is driven by expanding his worldview. \u00a0His quick processing allowed him to apply the new knowledge. With the installation of a new field induction subprocessor, I will be \u201cigniting the midnight petroleum\u201d by way of my intentional work in my pursuit of my ever-expanding worldview.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n [1]<\/a> Friedman, Edwin H., and Peter Steinke. 2017. A Failure of Nerve, Revised Edition: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix. 10th Anniversary edition. New York: Church Publishing. Page 45-55.<\/p>\n [2]<\/a> Lieberman, Daniel Z., and Michael E. Long. 2018. The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity\u2015and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race. 1st Edition. Dallas, TX: BenBella Books. Page 7-9, 62-63, 104-106.<\/p>\n [3]<\/a> Winchester, Simon, and Soun Vannithone. 2009. The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology. Reprint edition. New York, NY: Harper Perennial. Page 186.<\/p>\n [4]<\/a> Campbell, Joseph. 1973. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Reprint edition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Making a reference to Campbell\u2019s thesis of mythology of the Hero\u2019s Journey.<\/p>\n [5]<\/a> Ibid. Page 21<\/p>\n [6]<\/a> https:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/features\/WilliamSmith<\/p>\n