the motivation for using simplistic schemes for things, like this color wheel example.
I think the purpose* is to make it memorable/easy to teach. Someone who employs it might say they’re following the 80⁄20 rule. If you’re teaching, starting with a simple model is one approach—and not everyone is interested in more details (whether or not you have them). The main advantage (specific to this case) is that by coming up with stages being colors means you can classify other things by stage and use color as an adjective in the same way. Color wheel might be the wrong word—if you go all the way along a wheel, you’re back where you started. Whereas if you progress in the “red”/”blue” direction, eventually you leave the visible colors for the invisible (eventually stopping at radio waves/gamma radiation).
*It is also possible that things which have such traits (simple models like color wheels) become more popular/successful. I am not sure whether or not self help books are an intentional paradigm, or if the authors like it so they use it.
colours are meant for efficiency of communication. (Knowing the colour coding) I can describe bringing red values into a blue system, or wanting to bring in healthy orange to a crushing blue bureaucracy (Spiral dynamics colours). Assuming other people also know the system, conversation can go on without me having to explain a whole load of conceptual framework.
That’s a bit like saying that doctors shouldn’t use a category like major depressive disorder but instead speak about the object-level concerns of a individual symptoms.
Having a short handle for a complex concept makes it easier to talk which other people who understand the concept and now that the handle points to it.
I think the purpose* is to make it memorable/easy to teach. Someone who employs it might say they’re following the 80⁄20 rule. If you’re teaching, starting with a simple model is one approach—and not everyone is interested in more details (whether or not you have them). The main advantage (specific to this case) is that by coming up with stages being colors means you can classify other things by stage and use color as an adjective in the same way. Color wheel might be the wrong word—if you go all the way along a wheel, you’re back where you started. Whereas if you progress in the “red”/”blue” direction, eventually you leave the visible colors for the invisible (eventually stopping at radio waves/gamma radiation).
*It is also possible that things which have such traits (simple models like color wheels) become more popular/successful. I am not sure whether or not self help books are an intentional paradigm, or if the authors like it so they use it.
colours are meant for efficiency of communication. (Knowing the colour coding) I can describe bringing red values into a blue system, or wanting to bring in healthy orange to a crushing blue bureaucracy (Spiral dynamics colours). Assuming other people also know the system, conversation can go on without me having to explain a whole load of conceptual framework.
But if we assume other people also know the system, why would you have to explain a whole load of conceptual framework?
How is this superior to addressing the object-level concerns directly?
Edit: I definitely misread that last sentence. Ignore me!
That’s a bit like saying that doctors shouldn’t use a category like major depressive disorder but instead speak about the object-level concerns of a individual symptoms.
Having a short handle for a complex concept makes it easier to talk which other people who understand the concept and now that the handle points to it.