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Points of View

 

 

How to Read Other People's Minds, By Looking Through Their Point of View

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When someone stands outside of a house, they have a much different view than someone in the bedroom. The person in the bathroom has a much different view than someone in the kitchen. No more than one view at a time is possible. Yet a person can quickly change points of view. A person outside a house can go into the living room and will, thus, have a different point of view. No point of view is necessarily "wrong", but may be inappropriate for the circumstances.

 

This material was originally primarily derived from research into human value systems by Dr. Clare Graves of the Texas Instruments Corporation.

 

Most of us have a "life" point of view, that is, a particular point of view (as described in these pages), which we assume most of the time, and will generally revert to when stressed. It is important to understand our our own point of view as well as others to interact appropriately at home, in the family, with our friends, in social situations, at work. This body of knowledge will help you to do so.

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Navigation

Navigation may seem a complete mystery at first. Since this is a rather comprehensive body of knowledge, the navigation buttons are intended to be helpful instead of mystifying. There is a quick guide to some of the navigation buttons below the contents on this page:

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Contents

Quick reference in document:

-Introduction

-Descriptions of the Various Points of View

• The Immediate Point of View

• The Suspicious Point of View

• The Microscopic Point of View

• The Telescopic Point of View

• The Outward Point of View

• The Inward Point of View

-Part Two: Beyond Mind Reading...What to do with Points of View

• Three ways to persuade

• Persuading a person when they hold an Immediate point of view

• Persuading a person when they hold the Suspicious point of view

• Persuading a person when they hold the Microscopic point of view

• Persuading a person when they hold the Telescopic point of view

• Persuading a person when they hold the Outward point of view

• Persuading a person when they hold the Inward point of view

-Point of View Interaction

• Immediate to Immediate

• Microscopic to Microscopic

• Outward to Outward

• Telescopic to Telescopic

• Inward to Inward

• Immediate to Suspicious

• Immediate to Microscopic

• Immediate to Telescopic

• Immediate to Outward

• Immediate to Inward

• Suspicious to Microscopic

• Suspicious to Telescopic

• Suspicious to Outward

• Suspicious to Inward

• Microscopic to Telescopic

• Microscopic to Outward

• Microscopic to Inward

• Telescopic to Outward

• Telescopic to Inward

• Outward to Inward

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Navigation

Most of the confusion may come as a result of pathways between the Description of a point of view and Persuation (in Part Two). This section is divided in those two parts.

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POINT OF VIEW (Description)

This set of buttons controls movement to: the previous point of view, the next point of view, and the corresponding persuation.

EMPHASIZES

IGNORES

LIKELY PREDISPOSITION TOWARD:

1. SELF:
2. OTHERS
3. MARRIAGE:
4. FAMILY:
5. EMPLOYMENT:
6. MONEY:
7. HEALTH:
8. RELIGION:
9. EDUCATION:

HOW A PERSON WITH POINT OF VIEW WISHES TO BE TREATED

This set of buttons controls movement to: the TOP of this current point of view, the top of the PREVIOUS point of view, the top of the page, and the corresponding persuation.

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Persuading a person when they hold point of view

This set of buttons controls movement to: DESCRIPTION of the point of view, the previous point of view, the next point of view.

When dealing with the point of view, DO:

1.  
2.  
3.  
4.  
5.  

When dealing with the point of view--

1. DO NOT
2. DO NOT
3. DO NOT
4. DO NOT
5. DO NOT

In summation:

This set of buttons controls movement to: DESCRIPTION of the point of view, the TOP of this current point of view, the top of the PREVIOUS point of view, the top of the page.

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Last updated: Saturday May 12, 2007