I
saw a ted talk today, Inside the mind
of a master procrastinator by Tim Urban.
Youtube
link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arj7oStGLkU
In
the talk, he blames the “Instant Gratification Monkey”, and the “Panic Monster”
saves the day. So what is really happening “inside the mind of a master
procrastinator”? What is the true form and real relationship between the “Instant
Gratification Monkey” and the “Panic Monster”? The answer is in fortune telling
theory.
There
are lots of inventions in psychology, Iike: one
theory divides all personalities into nine types. But, why nine? How do you
know there isn't a tenth? Another theory uses different animals to represents
different characters, like Lion people, Rabbit people and Dog people. How do you
know those are all the type? How do you know there isn’t a “Zebra people” or
even “Bacteria people” out there? Another theory uses different colors to mark
people. Let me guess: Red people are passionate, White people are pure, Green
people love peace, right? How do you know all the all people types match all
the visible light? What if there’s a “Ultraviolet people”?
Psychologist divide
people in groups because they cut the cake that way, but it doesn’t mean the
cake should be cut like that. They don’t even know there’s a “correct way” to
cut the cake. On the other hand, there are 10 characters in life code for a
objective reason: there are only five possible relations between one element and
another, times Yin and Yang, so 10 possible relations between a code and
another code. We didn’t invent “10 characters”, there are “10 characters”
Even without the
fortune telling part, the fortune telling theory is an excellent psychology
model. Like I said in my book, psychologist’s personality models always fail at
some point because they don’t know what “personality” really is. Someone ignores
the complexity of human mind and divides people into groups violently;
some sees the complexity of human mind and declares it is impossible to abstract
human consciousness, they are both wrong. No matter how you divide people into
different groups, there always someone in between, this is because people have
more than one character, and people’s characters are not just gather together,
they are systemised, layered and interactive. Some of the characters are
displayed on the outside (first line characters), some of them are stay inside
(basal line characters), some of them are powerful and some of them are weak,
and they have relations with each other. It is complicated, but conceptualizable
and comprehendible.
In fortune
telling, Shield is the sign of procrastinating.
The description of Shield is: conservative, rational, dependent and
face-saving. If you go down to the fundamental level, Shield is another code
support the self code, all the description of Shield is fundamentally: self
protect. In another word, Shield is a part of you that support and protect your
ego. When you say to yourself: it’s ok, don’t worry. It is your Shield taking
to you. Now you know why Shield represents procrastinating? It is a comfort
zone.
On
the other hand, pressure is represented by Authority, because Authority
overcomes the self code. People with strong Authority are responsible, and
sometimes destructive, because Authority against yourself. People fight when
they are against.
The
characters have overcome and support relationship just like element, but it is
not a new rule, it is an inference of five elements interaction: breaking
characters down to elements, you will find the two rules are the same thing. For
example, someone’s life code is Wood, so Fire is his Talent and Metal is his
Authority, we can say Talent overcome Authority as well as Fire overcomes
Metal.
The 10 characters interaction is a basic rule
with no reason, but it makes a lot of sense if we think about it:
Generating interactions
Shield supports Strength: being conservative
makes people ego;
Strength supports Talent: ego people are prone
to show off;
Talent supports Money: dreamers are driven to
do something to achieve their dreams;
Money supports Authority: the more you are
involved into the world, the more you have to compromise yourself;
Authority supports Shield: people under pressure
are prone to be conservative;
Overcoming interactions
Money overcomes Shield: people who do the
actual work don’t have the vision and mindset to do theory study;
Shield overcomes Talent: logical
thinking restrains people’s imagination and lower people’s desire;
Talent overcomes Authority: releasing is the
most powerful thing against pressure;
Authority overcomes Strength: self-discipline
people discipline themselves;
Strength overcomes Money: fighting and
struggling alone wouldn’t make you a successful businessman;
If you read the interactions, you’ll see that
Authority generates (or we can say grows, supports) Shield. In another word, it
is the “Panic Monster” that gives
birth to the “Instant Gratification Monkey”. Tim Urban is wrong about the
relation between parts of his mind. What really happened is “Instant
Gratification Monkey” is created by the “Panic Monster”. You want to stay in
the comfort zone for the fear of the pressure. The more you afraid of the “Panic
Monster”, the stronger the “Instant Gratification Monkey”.
By
the relations, the real enemy of the “Instant Gratification Monkey” which is
Shield is Money, and the description of Money is: bold, realistic, adventurous, like to do.
Money represents wealth and girls (for men), because being bold is the way to
get girls and sells. Money makes people bold and confident because fundamentally,
Money means another code being overcome by the self code. Self code （ego）is the winner. So Money is a winner
mentality which is the real enemy of the “Instant Gratification Monkey”.
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