So far the Model comprises cycle of environment, perception (subject to belief), emotions, and behavior. Its last element represents how it regulates itself: reward. When this Model refers to reward, it means emotional reward, not something like financial reward, treats … Continue reading →

Our Model so far comprised a cycle of your environment, emotions, and behavior. We’re still building. We don’t develop motivations based on our environments directly. The limitations of our senses mean we never know the full story of anything. The … Continue reading →

Yesterday began the Model with the foundation of understanding yourself as someone who exists in an environment and behaves within it. Unlike many simpler life forms, people don’t merely react reflexively. I don’t know how bugs and lizards live, but … Continue reading →

Today we’ll see the first part of the Model. It comes from evolution in general and the burgeoning forefront scientific field of evolutionary psychology. Let’s start with your behavior and environment. Like all life, you exist in an environment and … Continue reading →

Why create a model? To know yourself better despite your complexity. Every system of self-improvement, at least that I know of, has some concept of increasing your self-awareness, your knowledge of yourself. “Know thyself.” Modeling the part of you that … Continue reading →

Before talking about the Model in particular, let’s talk about models in general, a fundamental and incredibly useful concept in its own right. I’ve covered them before in this blog from several perspectives. Models are simplified representations of something for … Continue reading →

What goals do we have in life if not to understand what makes life good and how to make our own better? By good I mean by the values of the person living that life — not by some abstract … Continue reading →