The pattern of a learned moral disapproval applied to a behavioral stereotype, subsequently interfering with individual goals...
...his translation to English said, as if that were one short word in his own language :-)
Is there a name for this? Can you recommend a good book or essay on the subject? It sounds a little bit like the thing Leadership And Self Deception is about preventing from forming in the first place and handling when contributing factors arise in specific interpersonal relations, but you clearly have a better theoretical command of the general subject and less need for dark arts story telling.
The pattern of a learned moral disapproval applied to a behavioral stereotype, subsequently interfering with individual goals...
...his translation to English said, as if that were one short word in his own language :-) … Is there a name for this?
I just call them “disapprovals”, although my browser’s spellchecker always seems to chide me for turning an adjective into a noun in such a fashion. ;-) I used to call them judgments, but after I read Love Yourself and Let The Other Person Have It Your Way, it seemed to me that “disapproval” was a better term, as it is a more direct description. One may disapprove because of judgment, or perhaps judge because of disapproval, but the actual relevant behavior that needs changing is the disapproving part.
Can you recommend a good book or essay on the subject?
The one linked above is the only one I know of, outside of Guild materials. You have to wade through a lot of new age to get to the meat, which mainly consists of two things:
Showing how approval and disapproval are a major, if not the major driving force not only in human relationships and interactions between different people, but also within individuals, and
A simple method, for letting go of such disapprovals, repeatedly demonstrated until it becomes a hypnotic chant, one which the reader is encouraged to also practice.
Once practiced to a skill, it’s rarely necessary to actually use the incremental approach given in the book; once you know what it feels like to let go of a disapproval it’s relatively straightforward to just do so directly, rather than letting go of it gradually as described.
(Things not in the book: the symmetry methods, imagining and surfacing objections. Those are general Guild mindhacking patterns, adapted from other sources and from practice.)
It sounds a little bit like the thing Leadership And Self Deception is about preventing from forming in the first place and handling when contributing factors arise in specific interpersonal relations
Perhaps? I haven’t read the book; the Guild’s application of this concept is strictly for personal growth, in that disapprovals create a certain type of systematic bias in thinking. It is hard to conceive of—let alone take—courses of action that conflict with what we disapprove of.
That is, our disapprovals of other people are a major source of “ugh” fields, because our brains self-apply the same labels we attach to others. Our system 2/”far” brains spin-doctor the labels away at the conscious level, even as our system 1 brains match the pattern and make us feel uneasy… resulting in the infamous “protest too much, methinks” pattern.
...his translation to English said, as if that were one short word in his own language :-)
Is there a name for this? Can you recommend a good book or essay on the subject? It sounds a little bit like the thing Leadership And Self Deception is about preventing from forming in the first place and handling when contributing factors arise in specific interpersonal relations, but you clearly have a better theoretical command of the general subject and less need for dark arts story telling.
I just call them “disapprovals”, although my browser’s spellchecker always seems to chide me for turning an adjective into a noun in such a fashion. ;-) I used to call them judgments, but after I read Love Yourself and Let The Other Person Have It Your Way, it seemed to me that “disapproval” was a better term, as it is a more direct description. One may disapprove because of judgment, or perhaps judge because of disapproval, but the actual relevant behavior that needs changing is the disapproving part.
The one linked above is the only one I know of, outside of Guild materials. You have to wade through a lot of new age to get to the meat, which mainly consists of two things:
Showing how approval and disapproval are a major, if not the major driving force not only in human relationships and interactions between different people, but also within individuals, and
A simple method, for letting go of such disapprovals, repeatedly demonstrated until it becomes a hypnotic chant, one which the reader is encouraged to also practice.
Once practiced to a skill, it’s rarely necessary to actually use the incremental approach given in the book; once you know what it feels like to let go of a disapproval it’s relatively straightforward to just do so directly, rather than letting go of it gradually as described.
(Things not in the book: the symmetry methods, imagining and surfacing objections. Those are general Guild mindhacking patterns, adapted from other sources and from practice.)
Perhaps? I haven’t read the book; the Guild’s application of this concept is strictly for personal growth, in that disapprovals create a certain type of systematic bias in thinking. It is hard to conceive of—let alone take—courses of action that conflict with what we disapprove of.
That is, our disapprovals of other people are a major source of “ugh” fields, because our brains self-apply the same labels we attach to others. Our system 2/”far” brains spin-doctor the labels away at the conscious level, even as our system 1 brains match the pattern and make us feel uneasy… resulting in the infamous “protest too much, methinks” pattern.