Figure out what other people’s patterns are from their behavior.

LAB PROFILE SUMMARY

Motivation Traits

How a person triggers and maintains their interest level and, conversely, what will demotivate them. Each pattern is described below in its extreme form.

LEVEL:

Does a person take the initiative or wait for others?

Proactive: Acts with little or no consideration. Motivated by doing.
Reactive: Motivated to wait, analyse, consider and react.

CRITERIA:

These words are a person’s labels for goodness, rightness and appropriateness in a given context. They incite a positive physical and emotional reaction.

DIRECTION:

Is a person’s motivational energy centred on goals or problems to be dealt with or avoided?

Toward: These people are motivated to achieve or attain goals. They have trouble recognizing problems. They are good at managing priorities.

Away From: They focus on what may be and is going wrong. They are motivated to solve problems and have trouble keeping focused on goals.

SOURCE:

Does a person stay motivated by judgements from external sources or by using their own internal standards?

Internal: They decide based on their own internal standards.
External: They need outside feedback to know how well they are doing.

REASON:

Does a person continually look for alternatives or prefer to follow established procedures?

Options: Prefers many choices, possibilities and alternatives. May have difficulty committing.
Procedures: They prefer to follow a step by step process. They are motivated to complete what they start.

DECISION FACTORS:

How does a person react to change and what frequency of change do they need?

Sameness: They want their world to stay the same. They will provoke change every 15 to 25 years.

Sameness with Exception: They prefer situations to evolve slowly over time. They want major change every 5 to 7 years.

Difference: They want change to be constant and drastic. Major change every 1 to 2 years.

Difference and Sameness with Exception: They like evolution and revolution. Major change averages every 3 years.

Working Traits

How a person processes information, the type of tasks, the environment they need to be most productive and how they go about making decisions.

SCOPE:

How large a picture is the person able to work with?

Specific: Details and sequences. They cannot see the overview.
General: Overview, big picture. Can handle details for short periods.

ATTENTION DIRECTION:

Does the person pay attention to the non-verbal behavior of others or attend to their own internal experience?

Self: Attends to own experience. Doesn’t notice others’ behavior or voice tone.
Other: Has automatic reflex responses to non-verbal behavior.

STRESS RESPONSE:

How does a person react to the normal stresses of the work environment?

Feelings: Emotional responses to normal levels of stress. Stays in feelings. Not suited for high-stress work.
Choice: Can move in and out of feelings voluntarily. Good at empathy.
Thinking: Do not go into feelings at normal levels of stress. Poor at establishing rapport or showing empathy.

STYLE:

What kind of human environment allows a person to work best?

Independent: Alone with sole responsibility.
Proximity: In control of own territory with others around.
Co-operative: Together with others in a team, sharing responsibility.

ORGANIZATION:

Does a person concentrate more on thoughts and feelings or on tasks, ideas, systems or tools?

Person: Centred on feelings and thoughts. They become the “task”.
Thing: Centred on tasks, systems, ideas, tools. Getting the job done is the most important thing.

RULE STRUCTURE:

Does a person have rules for themselves and others?

My/My: My rules for me. My rules for you. Able to tell others what they expect.
My/.: My rules for me. I don’t care about you.
No/My: Don’t know rules for me. My rules for you. Typical middle management pattern.
My/Your: My rules for me. Your rules for you. Hesitant to tell others what to do.

CONVINCER CHANNEL:

What type of information does a person need to start the process of getting convinced about something?

See: See evidence.
Hear: Oral presentation or hear something.
Read : Read a report.
Do: Do something.

CONVINCER MODE:

What has to happen to the information or evidence previously gathered to make a person become “convinced” of something?

Number of examples: They need to have the data a certain number of times to be convinced.
Automatic: They take a small amount of information and get convinced immediately based on what they extrapolate. They hardly ever change their minds.
Consistent : They are never completely convinced. Every day is a new day and they need to get re-convinced.
Period of time: They need to gather information for a certain duration before their conviction is triggered.

I can understand why you are confused about the issues you raise – you take original ideas, but you view them through the rehashed words of parts of it others have spit out.

e.g. Logical and Mathematical Prepositions are Tautologies because they have been proven to be so after extensive work, done by many different people over a very very long period of time.
As we go on we disprove some and we discover new ones – such as Newton and Einstein! Einstein btw used philosophy and Hume to find a way to disprove Newton.

The point is that although each one of us has unique abilities, our knowledge is view of the world is given to us – in other words, at first we are all told what to think and how to think about it. It’s only as our brain develops that we acquire the ability for abstract thought and imagination, which also varies among people.
This basically means that we develop the ability to start questioning what we thus far regarded as tautologies (again this is part of the entire nihilism process – so typical for teenagers! – as the frontal cortex evolves and with it the so called executive functions).

Intelligence, in essence, is nothing else but our drive to pose questions about the world around us (or at least the initial view of it as given to us) and our search for answers.
For some of those questions we find irrefutable, already existing answers (a bit like what Wittgenstein described as his idea of tautologies).
Others are able to take their abstractions and imagination further and look for possible answers to previously unanswered or even never posed questions – such as Fermat Theorem!

At the end of the day, I believe that all people are intelligent, but they are intelligent in a different way, because their brains just produce different output with the same input. In fact, that’s not a bad thing!

As to the issue of “the Mind” – you say “I know that it happens somewhere in the brain”.
What happens in the brain? Do you mean that the Mind IS in the brain? Or is it more likely that you know that the thought process happens in your brain and therefor you assume that what people call “the Mind” must be located there?
Interestingly enough the ancient Egyptians thought it all happened in the heart and they didn’t consider the brain was needed in the Afterlife!

Do you think there is a correlation between our ability to believe in “the Mind” and our ability to “diagnose” a disproportional amount of imaginary abstract “Mental Illnesses” as opposed to actual Physical diseases?