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KEY REASONS
THREE WAYS The website's problem-solving process gives choice between three ways:
First way is the methodical 18 STEP-BY-STEP FORMAT, which is the slow Learning Process.
Second way is the WILL FORMAT. Learning shows how, Will shows doing
THird way is the MIND FORMAT. Being fast and efficient, the Will s prone to error. The Mind uses the slow proof of why to correct errors.
WILLPOWER The power of the Will--WILLPOWER--wants to be efficient. Fundamentally, efficiency is a survival strategy intended to resolve concerns. The way chosen---methodical, fast, or slow-- depends on Willpower's perceptions.
LEARNING A most clear presentation of the Learning Process is in the problem-solving procedure shown in Model #17. Though this procedure is identical in each of the 18 models, it looks different because each uses a different vocabulary. When Willpower wants to understand, it learns. (Learning s a slow process--consider the years of schooling needed to learn basic principles.)
THE KEY QUESTION The key question: 1. What is the concern? begins each of the three ways.
The answer always honestly expresses what has been taught or learned. Experience proves to be a "hard taskmaster," when it urges a hasty answer.
Simplified concerns have narrow answers. Complex concerns have broad answers.
WISE CONCERNS Concerns with honest questions and answers. One example: The concerns of stakeholders compared to stockholders. Stakeholder's concerns are many, so considerate answers can be complex. Stockholder's concerns are much simpler: profit. As a result, stakeholder's concerns are demeaned, devalued, distorted, discarded, mislabeled, and destroyed by stockholders. Wisdom is lacking, due to limited understanding.
Try to be wise.
KNOWLEDGE After the slow process of learning, the Will now knows how, and wants to apply that knowledge. If the Will is satisfied with what it knows, it acts, because learning why requires more slow thought. Acting with limited knowledge almost supposes a forgone conclusion.
THE WILL FORMAT To be efficient, the Will jumps from Step One to Step 10. The advantage seems to be efficiency, so it continues jumping, as follows:
  1. What is the concern? CONNECTS to people or organizations that 10. Share concerns.
  2. What benefit is desired? INCLUDES the possibilities provided by 11. List benefits.
  3. What is the goal? REASONS the values provided by 12. Choose objectives.
  4. What means are available? DEFINES meaningful behavior with 13. Monitor behavior.
  5. What methods are available? APPLY meaning with 14. Choose methods.
  6. What is wanted? Not Wanted? FOCUSES on 15. Priorities.
  7. Accept relationships. RELEVANT relationships 16. Commit.
  8. Meaning acknowledged. RATIONAL perception of meaning eases 17. Solve situations.
  9. Build equality. SOLIDIFIES 18. Reveal truth.
Equality, in a perfect world, includes equitable rights and privileges. The Will Format reveals truth when the knowledge and concern are real. In a not perfect world, what is perceived as equal?
WILLFUL BEHAVIOR Once Will knows how, slow thought becomes efficient action. A major source of Willful behavior is KNOWLEDGE ASSUMPTION. This has a presumptive bias, (a mislabel), of 'knowing better.' They who assume to know better claim to think they know better. Thinking has been distorted by limited premises with make biased concerns that take shortcuts to be fast. Efficiency is the goal.
EFFICIENCY SHORTCUTS When 1. What is the concern? connects to 10. Shared concerns it may not jump again but go directly to Step 11 and proceed methodically from there. Efficiency is realized by ignoring the questions asked by Steps Two through Nine. Meaning and equality are subject to the premise that stated the concern. Behavior is devoted to resolving the concern.
    11. List benefits. Possibilities are excluded by limits.
    12. Choose objectives. Valued according to the concern.
    13. Monitor behavior. Defines behaviors according to the concern.
    14. Choose methods. Apply methods aligned with the concern.
    15. Prioritize. Focuses on priorities defined by the concern's wisdom.
    16. Commit. Accepts relationships relevant to the concern'
    17. Solve situations. Rational: Sees the logic in solutions
    18. Reveal truth. Solidifies the concern.
Satisfaction of the concern solidifies its assumption. Hopefully, it was not biased, Some possibilities are not considered because of a concern's bias.
The truth is revealed eventually.
MORE SHORTCUTS Efficiency is gained bypassing procedural steps.
When the focus of concern is 2. What benefit is desired?, benefits from the connection don't count, because the only possibilities considered come from the benefits listed.
3. What is the goal? looks forward from that question, not back. Value exists in the goal that was chosen. Earlier values aren't considered.
When the concern is 4. What means are available?, the only behavior that matters is defined by perceived means. Availability provided by Steps 1, 2, and 3 were bypassed.
When concerns are focused on later steps, speed and efficiency seems to increase because earlier levels were not used.
5. What methods are available? applies methods that lack the benefit of earlier questions and answers.
6. What is wanted? Not Wanted? focuses on choice by preference. Priorities are set by opinion, not practical considerations.
7. Accept relationships. Accept limited support. Reject other support.
8. Meaning acknowledged. The only meaning seen applicable was provided by the original premise and its concern.
9. Build equality. Who or what is defined as equal? What has been solidified?
PREJUDICE Some individuals and organizations intentionally deceive, but many don't. Every activity is more complicated than apparent, so ignorance of how everything--anything--works is a natural limit. Limits invite jumping to resolutions that appear obvious because simple questions and answers are more efficient. Over-simplified when details aren't known. Self-deception comes from lack of awareness or not admitting not knowing,
The knowledge needed to operate is not equal to the knowledge needed to make. 'Making' knowledge is so complex it often is stored in people or records. Honor each.
Resolutions reached from biased concerns exclude possibilities. Premises held as certain are really not known, just believed. Falsehood, like truth, is revealed eventually. (The second eclipses the first.) Denial of falsity is prejudice. And prejudice, like many attitudes, opinions, habits, and beliefs, is mislabeled, sometimes unconsciously. Prejudice is often mislabeled naivete. (Earlier, an example of mislabeling was given in stockholders mislabeling of stakeholder's concerns.
Worse, prejudice acknowledges the premise that generated the concern. Prejudice (negative pre-judgment) of any kind guarantees biased concerns that reveal falsity.
INTENT Intent is always honest, but can be limited, confused, mis-aimed, mistaken, or misguided. If a concern arose from a biased intent, the process will try to satisfy that bias. When Willpower honors the principle "the grass is greener on the other side of the fence,"escape is attractive. Misguided intent: addiction to anything.
Think hard about intent.
PROOF Proof can correct errors, so Willpower may want proof. Truth can be reveled by a a standard of proof that has checks, balances, and rational answers to opposition. The MIND FORMAT analyzes errors in procedure, which is another slow process.
Proof has six levels:
  1. Encodes, insures that the elements involved relate consistently to the concern.
  2. Infers, infers benefits that acknowledge meaningful methods.
  3. Maps, sets goals based on equality, then prioritizes.
  4. Apply, applies available means to make sharing concerns possible, then commits.
  5. Proves, credits methods and providing solutions of situations
  6. Resolves, resolves the encoded concern and reveals truth.
When the concern is biased, error might reside in the underlying premise. Proof may fail because a biased concern can't meet its standards.The real danger of any process is when a bias is considered "revealed truth." This happens far more often than not. (Prejudice shows its ugliness again.)
THE MIND FORMAT What does the Mind Format prove?
The Methodical (as numbered), Will, and Mind Formats are integrated in all 18 models, so Willpower and Proof universally apply. This was verified by constant cross-checking. What worked in one had to work in them all.
Compare below to the Mind Format of Model #17.

ENCODES: See relationship.
1. What is the concern? May only be part of the problem.
7. Accept relationships. All the relationships of concern.
13. Monitor behavior. Behaviors supporting the concern.

INFERS: Prefer meaning.
2. What benefit is desired? Meaningful benefits!
8. Meaning acknowledged. Acknowledge what it is.
14. Monitor behavior. Choose meaningful methods.

MAPS: Build structure.
3. What is the goal? Goals defined by meaningful methods.
9. Build equality. Equal rights and privileges. (Nothing for granted.)
15. Prioritize. Priorities based on equality.

APPLY: Validate
4. What means are available? Validate available means.
10. Share concern(s). Re-evaluate, then validate concerns.
16. Commit. Commitment, the ultimate validation.

PROVES: Give credit.
5. What methods are available? Credit intent, resources, means, and methods.
11. List benefits. Credit known benefits.
17. Solve situations. Take and give credit for solutions.

RESOLVES: Choose wisely.
6. What is wanted? Not wanted? Needs wise choice(s).
12. Choose objectives. Can be general or specific.
18. Reveal truth. Is truth revealed by unwise choice?.
DEVIATED PROOF Competence merits authority, but authority does not mean competence. Dishonesty abuses the public trust in authority. In advertising, for example, where incomplete thoughts deceptively claim logical conclusions.
Human beings are justly proud of the ability to think, but deviates offer cogent-sounding, but irrational arguments. And claims to 'think' often express feelings. The reverse is true. After considerable thought, "I feel" expresses the conclusion.
People, despite self-handicapping, learn.
Commitment doesn't make sense if parts of the proof process ignore or mutilate learning. When Willpower delivers a forgone resolution, proof by the Mind is shunted aside. Parts of the proof are used to validate biased points.The irrational looks as though rational.
Faulty premises destroy rationality before any thought process begins, although it looks rational to its believers.
When, in the Mind Format, 1. What is the concern? jumps to 10. Shared concerns. , the proof levels ENCODES, INFERS, and MAPS are ignored. Thinking has been truncated to justification, rather than analysis.
Part of APPLY is skipped, too. 10 Shared concerns only asks for 16. Commit. So the remainder of the proof process is devoted to justifying that committal.
PROVES: Give credit involves 5. What methods are used?, 11. List benefits., and 17. Solve situations. Only methods that enable the biased concern are seen available. Only benefits that satisfy the bias are listed, and the only situations solved have been defined by the bias.
RESOLVES: Choose wisely makes wisdom laughable, because it is also limited by the bias. The level includes 6. What is wanted? Not wanted?, 12. Choose objectives., and 18. Reveal truth.. Want? has been limited by the bias and Not want? expanded. Objectives chosen are also limited, and the "Revealed truth," limited by the bias, may not be true at all.
Through the mis-use of short-cutting, a process that seeks to prove truth has been diverted to rationalization that tries to make the premise and concern "right." This proves nothing, but those who agree with it claim it does.
This rationalization cannot last because its truth will eventually be revealed.
DEVIATED THINKING Short-cuts damage the Mind Format like they do the Will Format. The Will Format has nine levels, and the Mind six, but they are undercut by the same first six questions.
While the Will aims to resolve a forgone conclusion, each proof level applies the same principle to three seemingly unrelated elements, leaving no room for deviation.
If the concern makes one of these six questions primary, 'thinking' goes forward from that question, ignoring any previous level. Proof is incomplete, and therefore sabotaged.
The questions:
1. What is the concern? This level includes the entire proof process.
2. What benefit is desired? Methods are chosen to satisfy the benefits.
    Relationships were skipped, having not provided meaning.
3. What is the goal? Limited goals define what equality is, and sets priorities.
4. What means are available? Means are committed only by those who share the concern.
5. What methods are available? Only benefits provided limited methods are available,
    in turn, limiting solutions.
6. What is wanted? Not wanted? Concerned first with preference. Objectives
    are chosen that serve that preference, so what is revealed?

The proof/learning process is damaged when any of these shortcuts are taken, and completely invalidated when 6. What is wanted? Not wanted? is the concern.
Nevertheless, the error of invalid thinking is actively promoted by a few for its realized advantages. What are they? Using parts of the learning process give he impression of careful consideration. People who use shortcuts are credited with thinking completely-- and they get what they want.
Be skeptical of authoritative figures who make lofty claims.
Pretending learning lubricates quick achievement. Survival and welfare depend on acting incisively, but incisive with limits is only concerned with the survival and welfare of entities with the similar or same limits.
These limits account for poorly distributed rights and privileges--poor enough to make a mockery of justice.
FLEXIBILITY Any process allows flexible choice of change or deviation. Switch between formats--Methodical, Will, or Mind--at any time, or leave completely, if only to gather your thoughts. Correcting error might need respite from the process, or backtracking to a previous step or another of the 18 models. Review of the theory or Development of LOS might be advantageous. So is escape! It takes discipline to follow any of the three formats. and reasons for escape usually sound logical.
Flexibility also allows irrationality! Logical explanations can violate the standard of proof, regardless which proof method is used. What seems rational is irrational, because it is rationalization.
WHAT IS WANTED? Knowing the concern seems to answer that question, but it doesn't. Many events must be experienced and errors committed and before the question can be honestly answered. When What is wanted? is the concern, the answer is a forgone conclusion. Anything that satisfies the concern is OK. This indicates a concern limited by prejudice, so it is not 'real' or lasting.
Wanted is efficiency. Historically, learning has been devoted to becoming efficient, then enjoying the speed it offers. Historically also, learning has become diverted toward limited goals. Personal concerns have directed this mechanism for efficiency toward personal rather than social goals. Logic is used to promote deceptions that make no sense.
When What is wanted? seeks a social answer, it is not a personal question.
A personal question focuses on personal concerns.
A social question focuses on real concerns.
What is the intent?
CONNECT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . For Basics, go to Basic Concerns
For personal and system benefits, go to Benefits
For Keys to life's decisions, go to Key Reasons
To avoid error, go to Errors
To consider Habits, Learning, and Development, go to Start
For Purpose, Author info, and Motive, go to About
For definitions, go to Terms
To make contact and/or be a donor, go to Contact
For Habits, Go to Habit and Willpower
To enter the learning process, Go to Trust
For Table of Contents, Go to Table of Contents
For validation, go to Development
For concern theory, go to Concern Opens the Door
For Why? theory, go to Purpose
For error theory, go to Fallacy
For learning theory and personal values, go to Process
For choice guidance and theory, go to Choice
To use the Three Formats, go to the Labyrinth
Disclaimer The Labyrinth of the Spirit tries to describe the human condition, succeeding only when helpful.
Please feel free to discuss and argue its points with skepticism.
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