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Mind Your Own Career: Your Guide to Right Working for Right Living can help you to explore important questions about how you, your work, your career and your life are integrated, and to understand, and even to change, the answers you find.
The guide lays a foundation with a basic philosophy and some practical tips for changing your answers to these questions, so your answers become more suitable for who you are, what you need and what you want – in your work, as well as in your larger life.
Models, Reality And Truth
Herbert A. Simon in Models of Man introduced the term satisficing – seeking an outcome that is good enough – and contrasted this approach with maximizing – seeking the most – and with optimizing – seeking the best.
Your models are constructed from basic truths – things that you believe – and, similar to Simon’s three kinds of outcomes, there are essentially three kinds of truths:
- Universal or objective truths are based on evidence; they are true for everyone, everywhere, at all times; they remain true whether or not anyone believes them.
- Personal or subjective truths are based on faith; they are true for you, here and now; they may also be objective truths, or they may only be true while you believe them.
- Conditional or situational truths are based on assumption; they are “true enough” for you in specific circumstances; they may also be objective truths, or they may only be true while you choose to believe them.
The combination of these various kinds of truth influencing you, can lead you to have three variations of a working model:
- An authentic model rooted in universal truths describes a reality that works the same way for everyone, everywhere, at all times – this authentic reality works the way it does no matter how people perceive and interpret it.
- An espoused model rooted in personal truths describes a reality that works for you, here and now – this espoused reality works the way it does because you perceive and interpret it working in this way, i.e. you choose to experience the reality described by your espoused model.
- An active model rooted in situational truths describes a reality that works for you in specific circumstances – this active reality works the way it does because you choose to perceive and interpret it working in this way.
In practice, you must often balance the interplay of your authentic, espoused and active models.
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