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precipice, flexing my legs, swinging my arms and then springing off into
the wild blue yonder, just like a bird soaring in the breeze. Perceiver
strategy will see this image from its viewpoint in the room next door and
insist with great confidence that the initial vision belongs together with
other images of shattered objects lying broken on the distant ground below.
This is how natural conscience operates. Think of it as a warning system
that tries to stop me from doing things that are stupid.
While it is repetition which helps Perceiver strategy to gain confidence
in the Perceiver connection of natural conscience, I suggest that it is
similarity which gives power to the Mercy „hook.‟ Remember that
conscience can only operate effectively when it warns Mercy strategy of
some impending result which already exists as a memory within the
internal Mercy world.

There are two types of conscience:

1) Approval 'conscience.' Bad effects come from disapproval of people:

 Emotional 'truth' provides the link between cause and effect.

 Break the law and the police put you in prison.

2) Natural conscience. Bad results come from nature:

 Perceiver confidence builds the link between cause and effect.

 Drive off the road and the tree puts you in the hospital.

If I could learn only from personal failure, then natural conscience
would be fairly impotent. I would have to experience personally the Mercy
pain of going „splat‟ at the bottom of the cliff before an emotional „hook‟
would exist within my Mercy internal world that would make me heed the
warnings of natural conscience. Thankfully, the same Perceiver confidence
which allows me to believe in the connection between cause and effect also
allows to me learn from similar situations.A
For example, suppose again that I throw a watermelon off of the cliff.
Obviously, it will disintegrate at the bottom of the cliff and spill its juicy
pulp upon the rocks. Perceiver thought will look at the watermelon and
notice similarities
between it and my head:
they are both about the
same size and shape; they
are both hard on the
outside but soft and juicy
on the inside; they are

A The Contributor person often learns from conscience only when he

experiences personal failure. This is because, as we will see later, he
usually focuses upon individual facts and ignores the relationship between
these facts. Therefore, he notices repetition but not similarity.

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