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Knowing Yourself and Others Recognizing Your Own and Other People's Needs, Capabilities, Thinking and Communication Styles |
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By Vadim Kotelnikov, Founder, Ten3 BUSINESS e-COACH, 1000ventures.com
"Intelligent people know others. Enlightened people know themselves." – Lau Tzu
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." – Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Recognizing Beliefs and Values Beliefs are the assumptions we make about ourselves, about others in the world and about how we expect things to be. "These assumptions determine the way we behave and shape our decision-making process. They are often based on emotions rather than facts. We tend to notice 'facts' that reinforce our beliefs."7... More Discovering Yourself "The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself." – Alan Alda The Way Our Mind Works The language of brain are pictures, sounds, feelings, tastes and smells, i.e. inputs from your senses. Your brain cannot work with negative information, i.e. inputs you haven't experienced. It can work only with positive information, i.e. "information from the experiences of your five senses, which it then manipulates in the emotional blender we call the imagination."8... More Self-Awareness – the First Step to Influencing Others By knowing yourself then only can you know other people and influence and share your experiences with them. Great leaders, coaches and communicators don't focus extremely on their followers, coachees and audience. They have a high degree of self-awareness. We all have basic skills to lead, coach, or communicate; unfortunately, most of us have a few psychological blocks when it comes to applying those skills well and consistently. Knowing yourself will help you overcome your own blocks. Meditation is an effective way to understand the world and yourself. By exploring the here-and-now of yourselves you can explore the world. Unless you investigate the world within you can never know reality – you will only know your beliefs about it, or your intellectual conceptions of it. By observing yourselves, however, you can come to know reality directly and can learn to deal with it in a positive, creative way.9
Growth Strategy: "If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring." – Alphonse Karr... Market Analysis: "Women are made to be loved, not understood." – Oscar Wilde... More
Brief History: "Love is blind – marriage is the eye-opener." – Pauline Thomason...Milestones Completed and Future Plans: "As soon as you find the one to marry, just shut up and listen." – Unknown... MoreReading People – Listen Intently to the Specific Words People Use10
Ask a simple
open-ended question. Then,
be quiet and make note of the exact words the other person uses.
Understanding Preferred Styles There are many models for understanding and characterizing the styles of interaction different people prefer to employ. A widely used approach is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). It is based on the following four dimensions of a person's preferred approach to life.
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Using the Enneagram The purpose of the Enneagram is self-knowledge that can be used to further your spiritual growth, and your understanding and compassion of others. This system can be applied for analyzing and influencing unconscious strategies and behavior of not only people but also organizations, cultures, and countries... More
Representation Systems... NLP Technology of Achievement: Accessing Cues... Connecting With People... Establishing Rapport... Integral Yoga and Self-Awareness... Managing Cross-Cultural Differences... Cross-cultural Communication...
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