Perceiver Strategy 77strategy was reminded of horoscopes and if Perceiver thought knew that
horoscopes were wrong, then cognitive styles would also be labeled as
wrong.A
After several years of research, the typical reaction changed. First, my
description of cognitive styles tended to remind Perceiver strategy of
different facts. Because the theory had become more sophisticated, people
were now reminded of television programs which they had seen about the
mind and not fortunes which they had pulled out of cookies. Second, not
only had the connections changed, but the labeling appeared to be different
as well. People who did associate mentally to the idea of horoscopes now
tended to label my theory as right and not wrong. New Age thinking had
spread, and the general population had started to see the whole topic of
horoscopes in a different light.
Perceiver Assumptions and Axioms
We have looked at the similarities between Mercy and Perceiver
labeling. However, I suggest that there is also a major contrast between
these two. Mercy experiences enter the mind accompanied with an
emotional label suggested by physical pain or pleasure. Perceiver facts, on
the other hand, come into Perceiver thought without an accompanying
sense of right or wrong. Any label of confidence which a fact receives
comes purely from the mind. How does the mind generate this label? That
is a good question which we will be examining in a few pages.B
Let me state this in another way. As babies, we automatically knew
which Mercy experiences to love and which ones to hate: We loved
pleasure and we hated pain. As Mercy strategy grew and memories begin
to shape emotions, Mercy thought gained the ability to modify these
internal feelings. As adults, we have probably developed areas in which
physical and mental feelings diverge completely. For instance, we go out
into the middle of the forest, swat mosquitoes, eat burnt hot dogs, endure
pouring rain, crawl into damp sleeping bags and declare that we are
A Reading through neurology, I have found only one solid connection
between personality and birth date: It appears that babies who are born in
the spring have a greater chance of being either very smart or very dumb. I
guess that explains why I feel so clever at times and so stupid on other
occasions—my birthday is in the middle of March.
B But what about all of the facts which we learned from our parents,
acquired from our culture and studied in our schools? Didn‟t they come
with suggested labels of right and wrong? Yes, they did. However, I
suggest that every one of these labels was placed there by some person or
institution; the label was learned along with the fact. Unlike physical
feelings of pain and pleasure, none of these intellectual labels was inherent.