The SILM® "mental gearbox"™ identifies four basic mental processes that underpin experience. Knowing how to use the different "mental gears™" is the key.
The spatial "gear" allows you to interact with a world "out there" and to experience that interaction in an "inner world." [more] The intuitive "gear" helps you to develop new ideas and be creative about how you act and express yourself in the world. [more] The logical "gear" allows you to reason, analyze and modify your actions innovatively. [more] The material "gear" helps you establish coping skills and routines as you learn to meet basic needs and become more sophisticated in your interactions with the world. [more]
Business people are busi- people Whilst psychological theory can undoubtedly be of value in business few have the time to study the subject in depth. But remember, trade was central to the birth of civilisation thousands of years ago. Psychology, as the science of mental life is a little over a hundred years old. Yet business is as much about dealing with people as trading in goods and services, so those early entrepreneurs must have applied fundamental psychological principles, albeit in perhaps a more unconscious intuitive way. The challenge even today is to gain greater insight into those implicit skills and practices.