The One True Style
If there's a fifth style, the one true style, you may wonder why I've spent 5,000 words talking about the other ones. The answer is simple, and if you take nothing else away from this article, take this one sentence.
The One True Style is combining all four styles.
The best path of personal growth is being able to call upon any and all of them: to master all four so you can use them as you see fit for any situation. Every one of the paths I've described has a weakness, but together they are whole.
Everyone has a little bit of each path inside them. The One True Path simply brings them out and gives them all attention.
Growth:
The One True Style is adept at all forms of personal growth. First, you use a combination of intuition and self-trust to narrow down the area, then research what you need to know before setting an exact goal if possible. During the trial you can continue to use a combination of facts, feelings and intuition to remain on the right path. The One True Style allows for any situation to be handled. Very few ever truly master the One True Style but it's an excellent goal to strive for by strengthening your weaker paths every time you set a new goal.
Subtypes:
Most masters of the One True Style have a bias towards one path. It's almost impossible to achieve truly perfect balance, so here's a paragraph on each of the paths when dominant in the One True Path.
Progressive-Dominant: This person will almost always set exact goals and back them up with logic. They'll generally use research to support their logic, and let their intuition find the goal. As long as their gut reaction and the facts say it's fine, he's on board.
Intuition-Dominant: This person will generally define the goal, then the parameters, rather than the parameters and goal at the same time. They'll also use their intuiton to find the goal they're after, and support it with facts. Generally their self-trust acts as a hot / cold meter rather than an exact instrument.
Research-Dominant: This person will generally narrow down the basic area of the goal with intuition and self-trust, then research several different possibilities until they find the most likely one. Then they'll set an exact goal.
Self-Trust-Dominant: This person will generally do what an Intuition-Dominant person does, only with more weight to their feelings. If their feelings are strongly oriented toward the goal, it goes ahead. If there's no reaction, generally the goal isn't good enough.
All people use the One True Style to some degree. The difference between student and adept is that the adept can consciously make the choice to use each branch, and can shift their dominance based on the goal. It's like a carpenter's toolbox: it's not as efficient if it only has hammers, no matter how many hammers they have. They need all kinds of tools, and need to be proficient at all of them. Translated to personal growth, that's the One True Style.
And that brings our series to a close. I hope this series has taught you more about the nature of personal growth, helped you understand your own path, and how to become better at it, as well as what to strive for.
Until next time, may you use whatever tool the job requires.
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It was good to see you wrap this one up Jay. I must say the series has been one of the highest caliber you have written.
ReplyDeleteIf it works out it should help people to find out wher they stand, not to slap them into a category, but instead to help give them the groundwork so they can change accordingly to fit how they want to live their life.
Keep up the good work.