The Behavior Algorithm
Humans are as simple as we are complex. Too often it is our complexity that interferes with keeping things simple for ourselves. Our choices also factor into this as well. The majority of the time we have a say as to how simple or complex we make things.
Human behavior has been studied for as long as we've had language, possibly even longer. Attempts to understand and catalogue behavior have been going on equally as long for a variety of reasons. Some of those reasons were for survival, power, economic gain, and in more modern times personal development. Human behavior is no doubt incredibly complex but it is at the same time very simple. The Behavior Algorithm is my attempt at illustrating the simple.
Reality is subjective but there are empirical laws that are not. Gravitational force, electromagnetism, nuclear forces, and laws of conservation are not subjective. In the realm of human behavior there are laws that are equally immutable. The universal laws of the behavior algorithm are five things I like to refer to as social physics that apply to the fact that what think influences what we feel which influences what we do and what we do, our behavior, influences both what we think and how we feel. We all operate in this loop. The five elements of the Behavior Algorithm are habits, social influence, situational influence, experiential influence, and environmental influence. Each and every person is greatly influenced and governed by these five elements in their daily lives and we have the power to then subjectively create these to our liking.
Questions that arise to speak to our complexity are questions like such:
Can we exhibit behavior in contradiction to the emotion present? And,
Can we have an emotion that calls for a behavior that we can resist?
The answer to both these questions is a resounding yes. This is the height of consciousness and requires work and commitment to achieve. But even the most developed among us in these areas operates under the influence of the five elements of the algorithm. The difference is that the elements of their algorithm is clearly structured to optimize their behavior.
I challenge you to ask yourself where you are on the slide rule of the algorithm. The first step is to clearly define what you want then to determine what you have to do to become the person who gets that want. In the absence of the clearly stated goal the behavior algorithm still applies. It is simply one that you haven't consciously created. This is the realm where people find themselves simply going through the motions in life. That too is a choice. What will you decide for yourself?
Human behavior has been studied for as long as we've had language, possibly even longer. Attempts to understand and catalogue behavior have been going on equally as long for a variety of reasons. Some of those reasons were for survival, power, economic gain, and in more modern times personal development. Human behavior is no doubt incredibly complex but it is at the same time very simple. The Behavior Algorithm is my attempt at illustrating the simple.
Reality is subjective but there are empirical laws that are not. Gravitational force, electromagnetism, nuclear forces, and laws of conservation are not subjective. In the realm of human behavior there are laws that are equally immutable. The universal laws of the behavior algorithm are five things I like to refer to as social physics that apply to the fact that what think influences what we feel which influences what we do and what we do, our behavior, influences both what we think and how we feel. We all operate in this loop. The five elements of the Behavior Algorithm are habits, social influence, situational influence, experiential influence, and environmental influence. Each and every person is greatly influenced and governed by these five elements in their daily lives and we have the power to then subjectively create these to our liking.
Questions that arise to speak to our complexity are questions like such:
Can we exhibit behavior in contradiction to the emotion present? And,
Can we have an emotion that calls for a behavior that we can resist?
The answer to both these questions is a resounding yes. This is the height of consciousness and requires work and commitment to achieve. But even the most developed among us in these areas operates under the influence of the five elements of the algorithm. The difference is that the elements of their algorithm is clearly structured to optimize their behavior.
I challenge you to ask yourself where you are on the slide rule of the algorithm. The first step is to clearly define what you want then to determine what you have to do to become the person who gets that want. In the absence of the clearly stated goal the behavior algorithm still applies. It is simply one that you haven't consciously created. This is the realm where people find themselves simply going through the motions in life. That too is a choice. What will you decide for yourself?
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