Magic in the Room #134: We Contain Multitudes

December 27, 2022

We all have a hidden layer underneath our observable behavior called mental models. The majority of what drives our behavior is hidden in these mental models. In this episode of Magic in the Room, Luke reflects on how we can bring our hidden mental models to make intentional choices about how we act. 

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Research in this Episode 

 

Spiral Dynamics by Don Edward Beck and Christopher C. Cowan 

The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge 

 

Song of Myself by Walt Whitman 

 

The past and present wilt—I have fill'd them, emptied them.
And proceed to fill my next fold of the future. 

 

Listener up there! what have you to confide to me?
Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening,
(Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.) 

 

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.) 

 

I concentrate toward them that are nigh, I wait on the door-slab. 

 

Who has done his day's work? who will soonest be through with his supper? 

Who wishes to walk with me? 

 

Will you speak before I am gone? will you prove already too late? 

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Music by evangrimmusic.com 

Support from techblogwriter.co.uk 

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