Mental Strategies are the programs stored in our body based on our life experiences. They are the methods we use to determine how we respond to the outside world.
The research shows that humans activate the same neural network to process internal and external stimuli in a sequence of representation systems. In addition, due to our unique sensory preference to delete, generate, and distort information during “thinking,” we tend to see and hear what we want to. Meanwhile, what we experience reinforces what we have already known. All processes are set in our unconscious mind as the filter of our perception, making our actions autonomic.
The Meta Program has further developed a method to explain these autonomic actions and how we see the world, access our archival memory, and what we focus on when we access it. It enables people to understand how they assemble information to produce complicated patterns of behaviour and even predicate their behaviours to prevent them from causing trouble.
Therefore, understanding meta-programs will help us easier understand others’ thinking patterns, enhance our influence and persuasiveness, and improve our empathy, making communication smoother.
Meanwhile, understanding and mastering this “software” in the body will help us constantly update the programs in our brains, rewrite those “software programs” that are no longer effective, get rid of their subconscious constraints on us, and add some programs that allow us to avoid risks so that we can do things more smoothly and with better results.
Unique sensory preference makes the external event various versions and acts as different behaviours.
