The Mind Capacities

Have you ever taken a test, or assess­ment to dis­cover who you are, what job best suits you, or which rela­tion­ships fit you best? Do you know your “type”?

Think­ing Styles.

Too many mod­ern assess­ments and mod­els put peo­ple in boxes: you’re an A-type, where you hang in the 4 quad­rants, mod­els of per­son­al­ity etc… As much as it is use­ful to dis­cover cer­tain char­ac­ter traits, those tend to limit us rather than assist us to expand our per­cep­tion of who we are and how we are “sup­posed” to behave, because they tend to func­tion deduc­tively (from out­side to inside) rather than induc­tively (from inside to outside).

Another less obvi­ous, but prob­a­bly more accu­rate and con­struc­tive approach is to focus not on WHAT peo­ple think or believe or their per­son­al­ity type, but HOW they think about them, looking at the lenses they use to under­stand their world: their work, their rela­tion­ships, them­selves in rela­tion to the envi­ron­ment. It’s an induc­tive model of under­stand­ing (i.e. the oppo­site of lim­it­ing), because it reflects the increas­ing level of com­plex­ity that a mind has to develop in order to fit in a given exter­nal environment.

The ques­tion we ask is: are the mind capac­i­ties of a per­son suited to their life con­di­tions? When we achieve con­gru­ency between the 2, we are in bal­ance. Bal­ance is the ulti­mate pur­pose, because when you reach a state of per­fect equi­lib­rium… you func­tion per­fectly in your world, and… what else do you need?

When life con­di­tions change, we often need to develop new ways to cope with a changed real­ity, which means essen­tially, new mind capac­i­ties, and new ways to think about our world.

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