Strategic Personalities are always trying to get everything. I guess it’s the influence of the fact that, in terms of the way in which the evolutionary process is moving, we’re moving towards the Right. It’s sort of a way in which the Left is trying to pretend, in a sense, that it’s Right. We’re not about taking everything in.

It is possible for us as strategic Personalities, and I say ―us because I’m like you. That is, I have a strategic Personality. It is possible for us to cover a great deal of territory, one focus after the other. But never assume in any kind of situation, whether it is a formal learning situation or it’s a social interaction, that one is actually taking in all the information or all of the nuances. One is not.

Again, when one is strategic, the way in which one is focused denies all kinds of other things. Ah, what a strange thing it is to be a human being. If you have a Strategy and Authority, the thing about that is that it gives you the perfect opportunity to be able to experience your strategic power instead of being held in slavery to its dreams, the not-self dreams, and the dysfunction that is out there and there is so much dysfunction.

So remember something that is so important about taking in knowledge. You’re here to enjoy the flow of data, but you’re here to focus on something specific. And each point of focus is relative to where you are at any given moment. What you're going to focus on depends on whether you're emotional or not, depends on the kind of definition you have or not, depends on the kind of circuitry you have or not.

So, don't get caught up in thinking that you need to take it all in. This is what the Right does. But the dilemma for the Right is it doesn't know what to do with it. Yes, it takes it all in. But it’s not equipped to do something with it. They are not strategic. Focus is everything for us and focus is what we have inherited.

Ra Uru Hu was the Human Design System’s founder and messenger. Ra dedicated 25 years of his life to the development and teaching of the System around the world until he passed away in 2011.