The Self-mediator: Dis-identification & Self-mediation

Inbox

• Incorporates Gurdjieff’s “Self-Observation”?

• About managing the conversation we have with ourselves.

• Psychological distancing as one of the mechanisms that contribute to better directing

• Self talk is one of the primary tools. I wonder whether I should come up with my own term for this (or is “re-selfing” it?)

• Also remembering to wake up

• Spell out the impediments to mastery of each skill. This catalysed when listening to Day 3 of Smartstart program on coordination of Team You.

Introduction

• This is equivalent to the [[Viegram 🔘/0. Direction]]

Techniques

• “(What) If I do/n't”

for each “Factor”

Reference

• [[The “Controlling Self” & “Authoring Self”]]

Awakeness aka Red-pilling

• Ref [[(Waking up from) Entrancement]]

Disidentification & Self-belief

Practice

• [[Re-selfing 🔘]]

Affirmation

• You are the author and authority of your life

• You are both the designer manager author and the worker protagonist

• You are the bearer of both of cost and the reward in both the present and the future

Note

• This is in the domain of becoming or what I have also called /doDo/. There is also a /doBe/ in the domain of being (& belonging) which is the other core expression of (meaningful) participation.

• Work on

Self talk as a core sub-competency of 5. Director

Inbox

• am I the kind of person who ... (in moments of friction and conflict)

• "I have a weak will-power"

• hyperbolic discounting (tangibility bias)

• what self(author) talk is helpful

• What "inserted" mental models and distinctions are helpful

• the AOS model is also helpful to diagrammatically illustrate the forces present in a moment of conflict includes dynamics of each such as tangibility bias