Difference between revisions of "Predict Behavior"

{{format|date=2017-03-29}}Predicting someone's behaviour is easier said than done.But this single skill can be the most important thing you will ever learn. Every animal, every person is a system of cause and reactions. As in any calculation, if you give a formula the exact same input, you will always get the same output.To predict someone’s action one should understand their formula.

{{format|date=2017-03-29}}Predicting someone's behaviour is easier said than done.But this single skill can be the most important thing you will ever learn. Every animal, every person is a system of cause and reactions. As in any calculation, if you give a formula the exact same input, you will always get the same output.To predict someone’s action one should understand their formula.

== Steps ==

== Steps ==

#  Practice storing information. Unfortunately, other people’s behavior, like your own, is learned. To understand someone’s formula will take time. You must have a collection of general behavioral archetypes stored in the back of your mind at all times and, more importantly, you must also have a Theory of Mind - the ability to see the world from another person’s perspective, understand that their history is different from yours, which means their preferences and life goals are most likely different, which means their REACTIONS won’t all be the same as your own.

#  Practice storing information. Unfortunately, other people’s behavior, like your own, is learned. To understand someone’s formula will take time. You must have a collection of general behavioral archetypes stored in the back of your mind at all times and, more importantly, you must also have a Theory of Mind - the ability to see the world from another person’s perspective, understand that their history is different from yours, which means their preferences and life goals are most likely different, which means their REACTIONS won’t all be the same as your own.