Herramientas manuales

Functions: The mind carries out legislative, executive and judicial functions, just like

governments.

The legislative function of the mind is concerned with creating, formulating, imagining, and planning. This style characterizes people who enjoy doing these functions. The legislative persons generally like to formulate their own activities, create their own rules, do things in their own way, and build their own structures when deciding how to approach a problem. They prefer tasks that are not pre- structured or prefabricated

The executive function is concerned with implementing and doing. This style characterizes people who are implementers. The executive persons generally like pursuing activities structured by others. They prefer to follow rules, and they often rely on existing methods to master a situation. They prefer that activities be defined and structured for them, and prefer tasks that are prefabricated, such as solving word

problems, applying rules to already structured engineering problems, giving talks or lessons based on others' ideas, and enforcing rules.

The judicial function is concerned with judging, evaluating and comparing. This style characterizes people who like to evaluate rules and procedures; who like to judge things; and who like tasks in which they analyze and evaluate existing rules, ways, and ideas. People with a judicial style prefer activities that exercise the judicial function, such as writing critique, giving opinions, judging people and their work, and evaluating programs. The judicial person generally likes to judge the products of others' activities, or judge others.

Forms: The forms of mental self-government resemble forms of government. Just as

there are four main forms of governments, there are four major ways that describe how individuals govern themselves: monarchic, hierarchic, oligarchic, and anarchic.

Monarchic: a single goal of doing things predominates. A monarchic person focuses single-mindedly on one goal or need at a time. This style characterizes persons who like to focus on one task or aspect of that task until it is completed.

Hierarchic: This form allows for multiple goals with different priorities. A hierarchic person likes to do multiple things within the same time frame, setting priorities for getting them done. This style characterizes persons who allow for multiple goals, each of which may be given a different priority. They enjoy dealing with many goals, although they recognize that some goals are more important than others; they have a good sense of priorities, they tend to set priorities and to be systematic in their approach to solving problems.

Oligarchic: This form allows for multiple equally important goals. An oligarchic person likes to do multiple things within the same time frame, but has difficulty setting priorities for getting them done. This style characterizes people who allow for multiple goals, all of which are roughly equal in importance. They like to do multiple things within the same time frame but have difficulty setting priorities for getting the things done. Oligarchic individuals like dealing with multiple and often competing goals of perceived equal importance, but they tend to experience conflict and tension

when they are forced to assign priorities. Competing goals keep oligarchic individuals from completing tasks, because everything seems equally important to them.

Anarchic: This form is anti systematic. The anarchic thinking style is characterized by a preference for activities that lend themselves to great (sometimes too great) flexibility of approaches. Anarchic stylists tend to be motivated by a potpourri of needs and goals that are often difficult for themselves, as well as others, to sort out. They are often simplifiers who are intolerant, and too flexible, in that they may believe that anything goes. People with an anarchic thinking style have trouble setting priorities because they have no firm set of rules upon which to base these priorities. An anarchic person does not like rules, procedures, and formal systems. This style characterizes persons who do not like to be tied down to systems, rules, or particular approaches to problems. Often they oppose existing systems. They tend to take a random approach to problems and draw connections other people would not make.

Levels: Government exists at multiple levels: federal, state, county, city, and so on.

In essence, the levels of government suggest that individuals may vary in their concern for detail. Thus one can distinguish between global and local styles.

Local: A local person prefers dealing with details and with concrete issues. They overlook the forest for the trees. This style characterizes persons who prefer tasks, projects and situations that require engagement with specific, concrete details and that often require considerable precision to execute. The person with this style appreciates the very small matters that the global person avoids. Localists are often down-to- earth and oriented toward the pragmatics of a situation.

Global: In contrast, a global person prefers to deal with the large picture and with abstractions. Metaphorically, they tend to see the forest, but do not always consider the trees that constitute it. This style characterizes persons who prefer problems that are more general in nature and that require abstract thinking. The global person likes to conceptualize and work in the world of ideas.

Scope: Governments need to deal with either internal (or domestic) and external (or

foreign) affairs. Similarly, mental self-government needs to deal with internal and external issues.

Internal: This style characterizes persons who prefer tasks, projects, or events that allow them to work independently of others. Their preference is to be on their own, and they do not like group work or any form of cooperative learning. Internalists tend to be introverted, task oriented, distant, and both less socially sensitive and less interpersonally aware than externalists. Essentially, their preference is to apply their intelligence to problems or ideas in isolation from other people.

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External: In contrast, this style characterizes persons who prefer tasks and activities that allow them to work with other people through interaction at different stages of progress. Their preference is to be with others. They like group work. Externalists tend to be extroverted, people oriented, outgoing, socially more sensitive, and more interpersonally aware than internalists. They seek problems that either involve working with other people or are related to these other people in some way.

Leanings: Governments can have various political leanings. Optimally, these

leanings are represented on a continuum from right wing to left wing. Two major regions of leanings will be distinguished: conservative and liberal. The two leanings of government suggest that individuals vary in their degree of adherence to pre- existing rules or structures – that is, in their degree of mental liberalism and conservatism.

Liberal: The liberal thinking style refers to a preference for tasks and projects that require going beyond existing rules and procedures, as well as situations that allow substantial change. A liberal person likes to do things in new ways and to have change in their life. The person with this style seeks ambiguous and uncertain stimuli and becomes bored when things never seem to change. This style characterizes persons who like to go beyond existing rules and procedures and who allow substantial change from the way things are currently done. Unlike in the legislative style, the new ideas do not have to be their own.

Conservative: In contrast, the conservative thinking style refers to a preference for tasks, projects, and situations that require adherence to existing rules and procedures. A conservative person prefers traditions and stability. This style characterizes persons who prefer familiarity in life and work, and to follow traditions. Unlike in the executive style, they may like to come up with their own ideas but the ideas are based on accepted customs.