The Filters

A List to Work Through
A list of additional traits or filters that we will expand and elucidate in upcoming updates:

Item Type Related

Anxiety Perception / response
Competitiveness Perception / response
Emotional Appeal Perception / response
Skepticism / Gullibility Perception / response
Belief / Faith Perception / response
Detail orientation Perception / response
Shame / Embarrassment Perception / response
Confidence Perception / response
Guilt Perception / response
Variety / Novelty Perception / response
Fear / Recklessness Perception / response
Compassion / Sociopathy Perception / response
Hope / Gullibility Perception / response
Attraction / Discomfort Perception / response
Imagination Perception / response
Open / Facade Perception / response
Optimism / Pessimism Perception / response
Leader / Follower Perception / response
Afterlife Belief (non-bounded Self) Perception / response
Outcome Orientation Perception / response Providence Relationship Filter
  • Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way ...
          Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
          Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!
    - William Hutchison Murray.

  • Ever notice how most pessimists you know wind up with outcomes that support their mindset, and optimists wind up with outcomes that support theirs? How people who believe they are owed subsidy wind up being dependent, and people who decide to make it on their own ... wind up independent. How people who step up to their challenges often overcome them? How folks who are more interested in drama ... wind up with more drama in their lives? Innovators seem to innovate. Runners seem to race.

    It's not that we can imagine ourselves into the results we'd like. Yet, our approach does wind up skewing us in the direction of the results we often wind up with. It's a statistical thing. There will still be failures, and unexpected luck. However, our attitudes, perspectives, experience, and training will skew the statistical curve representing the likely outcomes we can expect from our activities in one direction or another.
Separateness Root Trait
Attraction Root Trait
Interaction Root Trait
Difference Discrimination Root Trait
Monogamy Dimorphic instinct
Maternalism Dimorphic instinct
Squirrel Dimorphic instinct
Hetero/homo sexuality General




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Last updated: Nov 25, 2014 18:00 PST