2016 TKR: TEAM: The people in your head. Be everyone you can be.

The people in your head
Be everyone you can be 
Self-help--Thinkerer
Updated  5/30/2016

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• “I’m not myself today.”
• “Something got into me.”
• “I was beside myself.”
• “Part of me wants to do this and part of me does not.”
• “I’ve really got conflicts over this.”
• “Sometimes I don’t like myself.”

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These are complaints about the people in the head.  You might get the impression that these people are a problem. But that is a matter of viewpoint.   Instead of complaining about these people, you could get acquainted with them. They may know something you don’t.
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These head players really are similar across different people.  They are part of how: 

• you can forecast what other people will do. 
• actors call up the ability to play different roles. 
• writers develop characters. 
• you select the way you are going to act. 

Here I  introduce some of the players who have important roles in creativity. Or rather, I  let them introduce themselves. After all, what’s the fun in being a player if you can’t speak for yourself?

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You will recognize them. 

• You've met them in other people. 
• You've met them in your head. 
• You've seen them in fiction. 
• You've seen them in the news.  

Luke: What's in there? Yoda: Only what you take with you.

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The Head Office, main players
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The Hunters

• We focus with tunnel vision on the target, on the goal.
• We’ll work on minor targets, like winning a game.
• We’ll work on big targets, like winning at work.
• Just give us a target we can hunt and get out of the way

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The Vulcans 

• We are logical.
• We choose. We take responsibility for choices.
• We consider long-term objectives.
• We forecast. We show the probable results of choices.

The Uns

• We do things bass ackwards.
• We turn things downside up.
• We are the world on the other side of the mirror.
• We manage the power of no.

The Explorers

• We like to find out things.
• We ask lots of questions and collect answers.
• We ask how you know what you think you know.
• What information do you need to decide?

The Networkers

• What the explorers find out, we connect.
• We connect questions and answers.
• We connect problems and solutions.
• We find similarities where none has been before.

The Empaths

• We feel the success of others. Or their anger.
• We look for outcomes that let everybody win.
• We give other people a stake in the outcome we want.
• It makes cooperation easier.

The Storyboarders

• We make up stories and run pictures in the head.
• We show stories about how things might work out.
• We show stories about how people will feel.
• We are essential for lying. We are valuable for planning.

The Engineers

• We figure out how to do things. We start with what is here now.
• We think in terms of who is going to do what, where, and when.
• We understand things a person can touch, handle, do something with.
• We like roadmaps that go from here and now to there and then.

Related

• Use your head! They always tell you that. They never tell you how
• Mirror Neurons (Wikipedia)

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