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Individuology

A New Approach to Thinking

Why a new 'ology'?

People Problems Persist - in spite of millions of sincere people, 'professional' and 'private' trying to solve them, many, crucial people problems, like the Columbine High School, & Virginia Tech massacres, corporate, congressional, and international greed; suicide etc. have not been solved in any consistent way.

People have tried to solve these problems with both Category or Type Based Thinking, which I'll explain later, and Statistical Reasoning, if we can call it that. Neither has worked, which is the need or Why for creating some new thinking tools.

At a more personal level, many of us, and our loved ones, are not achieving all the satisfactions and fulfillments that we are capable of achieving. In some cases these frustrations lead to personal violence.
A question we can all ask ourselves is:

Is my life going completely well in all areas?


So what is Individuology?

& How can I use it?

Individuology is a new paradigm, which contains within it specific Models, Rules, Techniques, and Tools for understanding Individuals and their interactions¹. This may sound complicated but it's quite simple. A paradigm is a 'whole mindset' for approaching certain types of problems or situations. It usually contains certain rules, often unspoken yet very firm, for how to think, or question things, ideas, and/or people. A paradigm often defines, subtly, what questions can and can't be asked and even what specific words can & cannot be used.
Examples:

¹ Interactions, both internal & external are the relationships between our internal parts and external friends & foes. They are 'similar to' some of the ideas of Systems Thinking & System Dynamics, disciplines which largely ignore or downplay the importance of Individuals.

A paradigm is often characterized by a metaphor. A crucial metaphor to understanding this new paradigm of Individuology is:
The metaphor of the Map vs the Territory.

This clearly distinguishes 2 very distinct types of knowledge.

Here's a simple illustration from an airport near me:

The common shared experiential reality (a picture)
Experiential Reality
Google Maps  Satellite view

Private Maps or Specific Views (Conceptual Abstractions)

Google Mapview                                                   Mapquest view.

MapQuest
Google Map View











As our private maps get closer to the shared reality, our lives become more manageable.

For more details see:
the web page World views
and/or the blog entry Experiential & Abstract World views

A new Knowledge Paradigm
This paradigm is a subset of the new Individuology paradigm which addresses how we learn, think, & share knowledge.

The old Objective vs Subjective Knowledge Paradigm is replaced by:
The new Personal and Shared Knowledge Paradigm.

Types of testing. There are many types of tests but 2 main categories stand out.
  1. Academic testing - Creates questionaires and lab experiments.
  2. Experiential testing - Goes into the field to observe Individuals. This often requires doing rather than just answering questions. Example: the WAIS sub-tests.

Types of Certificates - A strong clue to the type of training is who signs the final certificate - an Individual as in aviation or an Institution? More later...


Principles of the new Shared Paradigm - Rather than collect a huge list of very rules for very specific situations, to implement the purpose of the new paradigm we develop principles that are more general guidelines which help us figure out what to do in new and even unforeseen situations. Principles are like meta-rules or condensed rules.
Before accepting a new paradigm it's important to list and consciously evaluate & decide to accept, reject or modify its principles.
And also when our values conflict, which value is more important to us? For example: Safety is paramount in aeronautics.
PCP Ladders are a useful technique for sorting this out.
In Individuology these are most paramount: ² See my blood sugar example.

Our everyday Working Mental Models, Rules, Techniques & Tools:
see: Glossary for my definitions of these terms.

Personal yet Precise Terminology - so we can talk meaningfully to one another, and create group projects. In aerospace we measure things like O-Rings to thousands of an inch; in psychology we have vague terms like 'anxious' or 'depressed'.

Incremental Knowledge Growth - A place & process for testing and improving our answers over time. This has worked well in aerospace, but not so well in education & psychology. For example: Memory! Back in my University days, I studied several different books about memorizing facts, dates, Names, Faces, etc. Over the years, I added several more. (I don't remember how many.) Yet in spite of how critical this skill of memory is to the learning process; it's Knowledge & Skills are not collected into a single place or curriculum.

If the NTSB can investigate every plane crash from many, many directions - mechanical failure, pilot error, communications errors, weather, runway length, component stress, etc., etc., etc. Why does the psychological community which dares to call itself a profession, when they have a crash, a suicide, simply bury the evidence and learn absolutely nothing!!!!!

Maintenance - Since Individuals in our experiential world grow & deteriorate or decay over time, maintenance activities need to be scheduled and performed. These activities are NOT needed for our conceptual realities.


Personal note: This discipline of Individuology and it's principles, techniques, & tools could also be applied to all other 'Individual' things and events, such as animals, plants, trees, and perhaps even rocks, and our chemical environment. However, my personal focus is exclusively on Individual People. If there comes a time when all Individual people on the planet, have adequate shelter, food, and dignified living conditions, then and only then, will I turn my attention to animals and others issues...

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