Asians Might Learn ProxThink Quicker?

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“Americans are more likely to see categories. Asians are more likely to see relationships.” So says David Brooks in his recent op-ed Harmony and the Dream. He is using scientific experiments as sources, and he also says: “Americans usually see individuals; Chinese and other Asians see contexts.”

Individuals and categories (Americans) are more like the ProxThink term element. Relationships and contexts (Asians) are more like the ProxThink terms relationship and proximity. And once you see relationships and proximity, you’re likely to see elements too.

It’s important to note ProxThink doesn’t favor the proximity, since the proximity consists of elements related or potentially related to a situation, in physical, mental and other ways. In other words, the proximity is both elements and relationships. Further, you are aware of the proximity when you are aware of elements and relationships and the situation.

So maybe Americans could benefit more from ProxThink, but Asians will learn to use it faster? Perhaps. But you never know. There are limits to these sorts of generalizations.

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We’ve Been Busy

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I haven’t posted in a while, but not for lack of content. I have a huge list of blog post topics. But I’ve been busy with numerous site upgrades. Here are the top ten, in no particular order:

  1. A huge upgrade to the ProxThink Hints areas for members, including expansion pages for each hint, a new VIU Hint feature, Pairs tools and other improvements.
  2. A new password system that allows logging in and out.
  3. Ways to save information on the site, for example to track your learning or save ideas.
  4. Banner space allowing ads which you can turn on or off.
  5. Reworked the Start areas for clarity and usability.
  6. Added random images from artdown.com for visual variety.
  7. Added “Share” buttons to pages for bookmarking, social networking and emailing links.
  8. Wrote or updated several pages in the public join areas to better explain what ProxThink is about and how it can be used. These include the Potential Benefits, Sustainability and ProxThink Innovations pages, and a long list on the homepage called Ways to Use ProxThink.
  9. Wrote a Dear Visitor page outlining actions people can take to get involved with the growth of ProxThink.
  10. Created a Suggested Minimum Proxri page, which explains and lists some suggested minimum annual proxri ranges, for the times when people may not have the time, energy or interest to explore the Proximity of our Proxri Deal, as they decide how they want to proxri.

To experience the changes, join ProxThink.com.

Proxri Deal: As you find our relationship rewarding, proxri with the proximity in mind.

Shifting Your Attention

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You need to shift your attention between elements, relationships and the proximity. An over-emphasis on any one of these can be less effective.

This is also true when thinking about yourself. Sometimes see yourself as an element, sometimes a relationship or relationships, and sometimes either as a proximity or as part of your proximity. Then shift again.

Sometimes it’s possible to take two or three of these perspectives at once. Then shift again.

To find out more about what I mean by elements, relationships and the proximity, join ProxThink.com.

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The Enclosure Strategy

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One of the more powerful strategies is the enclosure strategy. You find a way to include what exists now (i.e. enclose), in whatever you want to create which is new. This strategy uses a number of ProxPatterns.

To find out more about ProxPatterns, join ProxThink.com.

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Slowing Down Violence

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Perhaps the one of the best ways to slow down violence is to create proximities so engaging, enticing and rewarding that people wouldn’t even really think about doing something (like violence) to deny themselves being a part of these proximities.

This method is something nature uses. Consider sex. Sex is so great you wouldn’t really think about cutting it out of your life completely. Sex is a proximity which is engaging, enticing and rewarding.

So how could we more consistently create engaging, enticing and rewarding proximities, and in doing so slow down violence? I think ProxThink and the ProxThink Growth Model could be of some service to us. Together, they provide some ideas, tools, models and processes which people can interpret for their proximities. They were designed to capture some of what good relationships are about, and what creativity is about, both of which people find engaging, enticing and rewarding.

To find out more about what I mean by “proximity,” as well as the ProxThink set of ideas and the ProxThink Growth Model, join ProxThink.com.

Proxri Deal: As you find our relationship rewarding, proxri with the proximity in mind.