[Neurons] 2022 Neurons #27 GESTALTING AN ATTITUDE

Michael Hall meta at acsol.net
Sun Jul 3 22:13:19 EDT 2022


From: L. Michael Hall

2022 Neurons #27

July 4, 2022

Super-charging Your Attitude #3

 

GESTALTING AN ATTITUDE

 

Not only is there a meta structure to an attitude, but something wonderful
and mysterious tends to happen with many attitudes-they arise from an
emergent property which cannot be calculated by adding up all of the parts.
Courage is like that.  Starting with a primary state of fear or sense of
danger, various beliefs, values, meta-programs, etc. come together in a
certain mixture so that out of the mix, they combine in such a way that the
result is courage.  You could add together "fear plus responsibility plus
vitality plus other resources" but that doesn't explain the phenomenon of
courage.

 

Because of the dynamic interaction of the various elements in the human
system, something more than and different from them arises.  In systems
language, this an emergent property that arises from the mixtures.  And
emergent properties arise in physical as well as psychological systems.
This makes reverse engineering impossible.  We can't start with the end and
backtrack to all of the elements.  Instead, we have to experiment.  We have
to add this quality, mix it up well, and see what happens.  If not, then we
try another element, add it and see what happens.  This will play a
significant role when it comes to coaching an attitude into existence.

 

When I researched wealth creation and then wrote Inside-Out Wealth (2010),
two of the secrets are attitudes: seeing opportunities and seizing
opportunities.  These attitudes obviously lead to and help to generate
certain skills by the same names.  Both start with a context in which there
could be, or may be "opportunities," a context that others may view as
boring, bothersome, tedious, etc.  Others do not see what the person who can
see as opportunities.  Because this seeing is a mental perception, it is not
done with the eyes, but the mind.  So what elements do you need to generate
that?  Creativity, playfulness, mischievousness, upside-down thinking,
thinking out of the box, asking weird questions, etc.?

 

The only way to find out is to identify a context where you do not
immediately see an opportunity and then add one element and see what
happens.  Then try it with another.  And another.  Then add two or three
together and see what happens.  When you find that a certain combination of
resourceful components mix together in such a way that you can suddenly see
opportunities, you have probably stumbled upon the right mixture for you.
Now try it out in other contexts and see if it transfers there.

 

Add hydrogen and oxygen together and you get something very different from
each element on its own.  You get water.  And water behaves in ways that
neither hydrogen and oxygen operate; it freezes at too low a certain
temperature and becomes gas at too high a temperature.  These are emergent
properties that do not exist otherwise.

 

To generate the simple meta-state of joyful learning, what are the essential
components that you need to bring and mix together?  The fascinating thing
is that there can be dozens of formulas which will all produce the final
result.  First you create a foundation for learning-what does this mean?
What goes into that state?  For you, is it receptivity, curiosity, playing,
focus, etc.?  Then do you need to bring a belief that gives you a fun
strategy?  A value that identifies joyful benefits?  A kinesthetic sensation
of "wow?"  An insight of "aha!"?

 

Sometimes we can create this attitude very quickly and very simply.  "Think
of something joyful ...  Go there, be there now.  See what you see when you
see that joyful thing. ...  Hear what you hear, notice the sounds and tones.
Feel what you feel, notice your breath, posture, face, etc.  Good.   How
much are you accessing the joy?  Good.   And now feel all of this about
learning..."  When this meta-stating works, you have made "learning" a
member of the class of "joy."

 

But this will not work in just that way for everyone.  Some will need
additional components in order to generate the gestalt state of experience
of joyful learning.  Do you have an attitude of joyful learning?  Would you
like to have that attitude?  You now have a basic structure for how to set
that up so that it becomes the attitude in the back of your mind which, in
turn, will create a new style and orientation for you.

 

 

 

 

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