Thinking Takes Discipline
Learning is a Continuous-Flow Process.
Learning is a Repeating Pattern of MY Life
MY? M=ME+Y+=YOU, together “WE” Create MY LIFE with Others
Life is a Discovery of Relationships “-Between-What is Omni-Around+”
In 1971, Kahler developed a process to identify different kinds of human communication and their efficacy.
It narrowed Verbal Interactions down to a Number of Sequences that were identified by Speech Patterns and Word Choice. Each Sequence could be Objectively Identified as it tumbled out of the speaker’s mouth.
Different Combinations of Sequences Signalled whether the person was engaged, happy, bored, disgusted, or repulsed by their conversation partner and the subject.
With Kahler’s system, there was no looking between the cracks or trying to peer into a subject’s soul. All of the information needed to assess a person came out of his or her mouth.
Kahler built his system around the Words that we speak.
Our sentence Structures, our chosen Verbs, Predicates, and Pronouns all betray well-defined characteristics that most people have carried with them since childhood.
Putting together sentences is something we do hundreds or thousands of times per day.
The Process becomes Incredibly Ingrained for us; we cannot, with the flip of a switch, break these Habits or pick up completely different ways of speaking.
To somebody with the skills of Kahler, we can’t disguise who we are. Kahler’s linear method of dividing people up according to clear patterns of speech made it a natural fit to be programmed into an algorithm and, eventually, a bot.
Psychiatry has long been thought of as a field that would seem impervious to technological advances. But Kahler’s method— using the theory of logic trees and binary determination— may have proven this to be untrue.
Kahler could diagnose a Person’s Character, Fiber, and Future Actions by observing them for fifteen minutes.
The professor’s system— and the slightly modified version with which eavesdropping bots evaluate you when you call— classifies people under six categories:
1. Emotions-driven people. They try to form relationships and learn about the person they’re speaking with before diving into the issue at hand. Women comprise three-quarters of this group, which makes up 30 percent of the total population. Tight situations make this group dramatic and over-reactive.
2. Thoughts-based people. This group tends to do away with pleasantries and go straight for the facts. A rigid form of pragmatism drives most of the decisions they make. Under pressure, they tend to become humourless, pedantic, and controlling.
3. Actions-driven people. Most used-car salesmen would come under this umbrella. They crave progress and action, even in tiny chunks. They’re always pushing, prodding, and looking for an angle. Many in this group can be charming. Pressure can drive actions-driven people to irrational, impulsive, and vengeful behaviour.
4. Reflections-driven people. This group can be calm and imaginative. They often think more about what could be rather than working with what already is. These people, when they’re interested in something, can drift off for hours while they dig into the new subject. Applying this knowledge to a real-world project, however, is a weakness.
5. Opinions-driven people. The language used by this group is stocked with imperatives and absolutes. They tend to see one side of a situation and will stick to their views even when refuted with proof. More than 70 percent of politicians are opinions-driven people, but the group constitutes only 10 percent of the population as a whole. People from this group can also be tireless workers, who will persistently grind away on a problem until it is solved. Under pressure, their opinions can become weaknesses; they can grow judgmental, suspicious, and sensitive.
6. Reactions-based people. Kahler called this group rebels, but the modern set of standards— and those on which personality-deciphering bots are built— refer to them as reactions people. This group is spontaneous, creative, and playful. They react strongly to things: “I love that!” or “That sucks!” Many innovators come from this group. Under pressure, they can be stubborn, negative, and blameful.
Our personalities tend to be dominated by one of the six traits, but we possess differing percentages of the other five. Steiner, Christopher (2012-08-30). Automate This: How Algorithms Took Over Our Markets, Our Jobs, and
The ease with which “WE” are satisfied enough to stop thinking is rather troubling. “Lazy” is a harsh judgment about the self-monitoring but it does not seem to be unfair.
Those who avoid the sin of intellectual sloth could be called “ENGAGED.”
They are more alert, more intellectually active, less willing to be satisfied with superficially attractive answers, more sceptical about their intuitions. The psychologist Keith Stanovich would call them more rational.
Intelligence, Control, Rationality Researchers have applied diverse methods to examine the connection between thinking and self-control.
What makes some people more susceptible than others to biases of judgment?
Stanovich’s concept of a rational person is similar to what I earlier labeled “engaged.” The core of his argument is that RATIONALITY SHOULD be distinguished from Intelligence. In his view, Superficial or “Lazy” Thinking is a Flaw in the Reflective Mind, a Failure of RATIONALITY.
“Circumstances over TIME have provided cues; these cues have given Science access to information stored in HU-Beings Brain Memory, and the information provides the answer.
Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition.”
Kahneman, Daniel (2011-10-25). Thinking, Fast and Slow
When designing a system/process=1, it is important to understand what is already there.
Patterns of Behaviour are ingrained in each of us. Like it or not, in the design of a HU-Being, you have a Brain/Mind=1 Organic Process.
Organic Process: Happening or developing gradually and naturally, without being forced or contrived
PSYCHOGRAPHICS: the study and grouping of people according to their attitudes, values, lifestyles and opinions determined By Their: Needs-Wants-Desires-Enough
The 4 stars of Generic Advertising and Marketing:
1. Needs: is necessary for an organism to live a healthy life
2. Wants: I don’t need it……… I make a Decision:“I want it”
3. Desire: craving, or longing for something…. Burning Beyond a Want
4. Enough: quantity, quality, or scope as to fully meet demands, Needs, or Expectations
Generic: usable and suitable in a variety of contexts and is A Big Picture of Thought. In Design, it is important to Always Start with the Biggest Thought.
Big Thoughts must go too
Specific: specifying, explicit, or Definite Thoughts and Actions. The Vital Now is always made up of Pervasive Past. Pervasive Past is the sum total of your experiences and each experience is a Generic Particles of Your Reality. The Vital Now can Create New Patterns of Behaviour.
Thinking is an Extreme Disciplined Event.
The Flawed designed of HU-Beings is to always “Take the Line of Least Resistance”, meaning we are designed to be lazy. We have a built in laziness and to create a Designed Future it will take
“Results Resistance”
“-ENGAGED+”
Rationality must be Distinguished from Intelligence …..
Superficial or “lazy” Thinking has Flaws
Seeing is believing? Seeing is Deceiving? What you see is all there is?
Reflective Thinking must Engage with Refractive Thinking
FEELING-THOUGHTS-THINKING-CHOICES-DECISIONS-ACTIONS-FEEDBACK-REPEAT
It takes Focused Attention to Create Designed Futures
Thinking is Hard Work and a Discipline
As Henry Ford once Said
AND
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Until next week, May the thinking Force be with you.
JDS OUT
