Welcome and congratulations on your desire to navigate the Brook.

1. A word about Brookmaster
2. What will Brookmaster do for you?
3. Rules of the Game
4. Definition of BrookMaster Terms
1. Archetypes of the Brook
2. Five Material Motivators
3. Five Spiritual Sentinels
4. Purposeful Action
5. Mission
6. Three Phases of Purposeful Action
1. Phase 1: Defining the Purpose
2. Phase 2: Forming the Plan
3. Phase 3: Review and Renewal

A word about BrookMaster

From your answers to these questions, BrookMaster will determine your propensity to be one of the five major archetypes of the Brook:  Leader, Manager, Intellectual, Trustee or Consultant. BrookMaster also will determine your propensity to be a Giver, Taker or a Navigator of the Brook.

BrookMaster provides definitions of all the Brook terms used in the games.  BrookMaster recommends the you read The Brook for further information about Brook matters.

What will BrookMaster do for you?

1. If you simply want to play in the waters, BrookMaster invites you to jump in and play!
2. If you wish to sip the waters while you take a quick trip, then you may do so. Be forewarned however, because:
Little knowledge is a poisonous thing. Drink deep, drink not from the poisonous spring!
3. If you wish to surf the Brook, then by all means, do so to your heart's content and collect all the vicarious experiences that you can, by experiencing life in the Brook.
4. You can expand your mind and learn from the Brook in addition to learning from your actions in life. However, be forewarned that you miss a great deal as you rush through the Brook, just as you miss much by rushing through life!
5. If you wish to drink deep from the waters of the Brook, BrookMaster will be most pleased. For it is by drinking deep and fully, that you learn most about life through the Brook. You may drink deep in many ways, but it will require patience and persistence. Here are some of the ways you can use BrookMaster to drink deep from the Brook:
1. You can examine whether your mind is pre-disposed to actions that will make you into any one of the five Brook archetypes.
2. You can examine whether your mind is pre-disposed to actions that will make you into a Giver, a Taker or a Navigator.
3. You can change your mind-set by pretending to think like a different person and play the game to determine what archetype this different person leans towards. This will give you some guidance on how your mind may be trained to gravitate towards the mind of that different person, or away from that different person.
4. You can play the game as many times as you wish and collect a set of experiences on the Brook that you may wish to apply while navigating in the Brook and through life.
5. You can use the game to evaluate any other person or organization about whom, or which, you have some knowledge. Based upon the answers that BrookMaster provides about that person or organization, you can decide whether or not you should associate with them, or how you should deal with them. The answers that BrookMaster provides will help you to navigate the waters of the Brook as you relate your Brook journeys to your journey through life and the actions that you observe and undertake!

Rules of the BrookMaster Game

1. Answer all questions.
2. Answer all questions truthfully.
3. Answer all questions only after you have thought through each question and each possible answer
4. Answer all questions as you would to your inner mind, when contemplating an action that is important to you in life.
5. Select the one answer to each question that best represents your mind set.
6. If you regret selecting any answer, then you may abort the game as people sometimes do in life's actions.  As in life, you then have to play a new ball-game.
7. If you give BrookMaster your name and appropriate registration information, BrookMaster will maintain a record of your journeys and experiences in the Brook!
8. If you wish to recall BrookMaster's responses to your earlier travels, you may ask BrookMaster to present them to you, provided that you are a registered Brook Navigator.

Definition of BrookMaster Terms

Archetypes of the Brook

1. Leader:  Aligns people towards the achievement of a common vision. A dreamer, doer, and a great communicator.
2. Entrepreneur: Seeks opportunities and fills needs for shared and personal gain.  An individual with high initiative.
3. Manager: Directs actions according to a plan aimed at meeting defined goals. Oriented towards productivity and efficiency.  Works with, and through, others.
4. Trustee: Performs functions under guidance, generally as part of a team.  Committed to serving others.  Performs clearly defined functions.  Moderate to low initiative.
5. Intellectual: Committed to learning and sharing knowledge.  Thinks about the meaning of things in life.  Includes artists and inventors.
6. Consultant:  Provides services for a fee.  A mercenary.

Five Material Motivators

1. Lust:  Sex and passion for physical pleasures.
2. Anger:  Rage and uncontrolled urges for revenge and destruction.
3. Greed:  Take all you can, without satisfaction.
4. Attachment:  Possessiveness and focus on ownership by "me" and "mine".
5. Arrogance: The feeling that you are everything.  When allowed to dominate our bodies and minds these five senses generate currents of the taking force in our minds.  Under the control of these senses the mind directs actions which result in the experience of fear, doubt and darkness.

Five Spiritual Sentinels

1. Integrity:  Truth and trustworthiness.
2. Commitment:  Dedication, caring, consideration and love.
3. Persistence:  Staying the course, faithfulness.
4. Communication:  Sharing and forthrightness.
5. Teamwork:  Universality of all involved in action.

Purposeful Action

Mission

Three Phases of Purposeful Actions

Purposeful Action occurs when people "do their thing" in accordance with the plan (which provides the guidance for the organization). Purposeful Action occurs through activity in the organization because it is through that action thatduring which something of material value is produced.