 The heart of transformative action learning, as developed by Kramer, is asking powerful questions to promote the unlearning or letting go of taken-for-granted assumptions and beliefs.The most creative artists, such as Rembrandt, Michelangelo and Leonardo, know how to separate even from their own greatest public successes, from earlier artistic incarnations of themselves.Their "greatness consists precisely in this reaching out beyond themselves, beyond the ideology which they have themselves fostered," according to "Art and Artist" (Rank, 1932/1989, p. 368).