Visualization

[This post is part of a series on The Model -- my model for the human emotional system designed for use in leadership, self-awareness, and general purpose professional and personal development -- which I find the most effective and valuable foundation for understanding yourself and others and improving your life. If you don't see a Table of Contents to the left, click here to view the series, where you'll get more value than reading just this post.] Having seen an overview of the active view, let's look at it in practice. Let's take a passive view from a post a few days ago -- how you perceive a dog based on your beliefs and expectations -- and make it active. Example 1 First let's look…

[This post is part of a series on The Model -- my model for the human emotional system designed for use in leadership, self-awareness, and general purpose professional and personal development -- which I find the most effective and valuable foundation for understanding yourself and others and improving your life. If you don't see a Table of Contents to the left, click here to view the series, where you'll get more value than reading just this post.] Let's look at another example of how we use models in more depth. As with yesterday, after treating the example I'll describe the lessons it teaches. Imagine you grew up with a pet pit bull. You might see it as an adorable pet. Someone else who never grew…

[This post is part of a series on The Model -- my model for the human emotional system designed for use in leadership, self-awareness, and general purpose professional and personal development -- which I find the most effective and valuable foundation for understanding yourself and others and improving your life. If you don't see a Table of Contents to the left, click here to view the series, where you'll get more value than reading just this post.] My past two posts on examples of models showed visual models -- maps and representations of the Earth. Such examples illustrate how models work because they are easy to see, but don't capture the subtlety of distinguishing models from what they represent. Mental models tend to be more…

[This post is part of a series on The Model -- my model for the human emotional system designed for use in leadership, self-awareness, and general purpose professional and personal development -- which I find the most effective and valuable foundation for understanding yourself and others and improving your life. If you don't see a Table of Contents to the left, click here to view the series, where you'll get more value than reading just this post.] Yesterday I started with one of the simplest examples of models -- maps. Today we'll look at other models. The image below includes a model of the Earth. You might remember seeing models like this from school. It throws out a lot of information -- it's two-dimensional, showing…

[This post is part of a series on The Model -- my model for the human emotional system designed for use in leadership, self-awareness, and general purpose professional and personal development -- which I find the most effective and valuable foundation for understanding yourself and others and improving your life. If you don't see a Table of Contents to the left, click here to view the series, where you'll get more value than reading just this post.] 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 for dogs, or food pellets for lab animals.…