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Exploring Your Internal Map Of Reality Part 8: Strategies (Conclusion)
You might look at Strategies from the previous articles (starting here) and wonder: there’s so much to know and remember how can I possibly learn it all? The answer to this is quite simple: take
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In our journey so far we have looked at a number of different filters that contribute to our internal map of reality. Currently we are looking at strategies, which are sequences of internal representations
Continue ReadingExploring Your Internal Map Of Reality: Part 8: Strategies (Part 2)
Last time we talked the basics of strategies and what a ‘good’ strategy’ consists of. Now we consider some basic types of strategies. Motivation/De-Motivation Strategies A fairly essential
Continue ReadingExploring Your Internal Map of Reality Part 8 – Strategies (Part 1b)
Continued from Part 1 So what makes a ‘good strategy?’ You need to have a good idea of the desired outcome. In other words, what does it look like, feel like, sound like, etc.If your preferred
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Another important part of the Internal Map Of Reality is called Strategies. In military speak, the normal meaning of this word is ‘a general plan for defeating an enemy,’ and in the case of
Continue ReadingExploring Your Internal Map Of Reality Part 7: Metaprograms 6 (Putting It All Together)
So far in our Internal Map Of Reality series we have spent several articles discussing Metaprograms, which are unconscious filters that determine what we are aware of from the external world. The first
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We continue our discussion of metaprograms, which as we defined, are content-free filters that define our experience of the internal and external world. Remember that all filters do one or more of the
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Continued From Part 4 Attention Direction This metaprogram describes two ways of placing your attention – towards yourself, or towards others. This filter goes hand in hand with the affiliation filter.
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Continued from Part 3 Emotional Stress Filter This filter determines how people deal with a stressful situation. There are several ways of doing this – by thinking about it, by getting into the feeling
Continue ReadingExploring Your Internal Map Of Reality – Part 7: Metaprograms, Part 2
(Continued from Part 1) Last time we discussed the first 4 metaprograms that contribute to our internal map of reality: extrovert/introvert, sensor/intuitor, thinker/feeler and judger/perceiver. These
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