EXPERTISE IS IN THE META PLACE

Because For Excellence—Go Meta (Neurons #45), the actual structure and essence of expertise is in the Meta Place, that is, in the mind. Yes the mental structure will ultimately be expressed in the step by step action steps which require for you to do specific actions in the real world. Yet that’s not where “the magic” lies. What makes the experience magical and awesome lies behind the scenes—in the back of the mind in the person’s higher thinking (consciousness). And that’s what we have to model if we are to be able to replicate the expertise of the expert.

Anyone who tries to merely copy or mimic the expertise of a highly skilled practitioner only cheats himself. He’s only working with the obvious behaviors and missing out on all of the inner richness of the expert’s mind-and-emotion, values and understandings, insights and beliefs. In this, as in everything human, it is inside—out. What’s on the outside did not originate there. It came from the inside. The expert operates from an internal mental model, that’s what we want to discover.

Now we have a problem. While we can see, hear, and sense what’s on the outside, how do we see, hear, and sense what’s on the inside? How can we see the mind? How can we see an expert’s mind in action generating the information and forms which enable the expertise to arrive? In answer to these questions, we need a way to see or imagine the mind, especially the mind in action.

The wrong answer here goes to the brain, brain anatomy, neurology, and the neuro- sciences. The brain is not the mind. And no matter how well you understand the brain—that does not necessarily open up an understanding about the mind. Yes, the mind arises as an emergent property from the brain and as a felt, subjective experience of the brain, but it is not the brain. You can know all about the brain and know nothing about the mind, how it is functioning, what it is doing, or how to manage it.

For the right answer, we have to ask a very different question. Namely, what does the mind do? If we ask, what does the brain do? The answer: it processes information. Neurons jump synapses, neuro-transmitter, and neuro-modulators help with this. Then other parts of the brain, and with the information substances, transit bio-chemical and bio- electrical information around the brain. But none of that helps us. So we repeat the question— what does the mind do? The answer is as simple as it is profound—it thinks.

What your mind and mine most fundamentally does is think and it thinks in many different ways and at many different levels. In thinking, the mind represents, edits, From:

concludes, believes, values, remembers, imagines, identifies, intends, etc. These are the different kinds of thinking which your mind does. It is because of this that I started to identify these kinds of thoughts as landmarks of the mind. And with landmarks we can now see the mind functioning and the way these kinds of thinking relate to each other. Now we can see the mind thinking and operating and can influence it.

Now given all of that, as we look into the expert’s mind to see what she is thinking, we can visit each thinking landmark and ask: What is she representing? How is she editing her representations? What is she concluding? Believing? Valuing? Remembering? Imagining? Intending? And in this way we can map the higher level thinking of the expert which creates the excellence.

For Training in the Meta Place contact: Mariani – [email protected] Mandy — [email protected] Bali, Indonesia — November 29-30, 2024

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