Metaphors Motivate Movements -

 

  Metaphors Motivate Movements -

One of the most difficult tasks for a supervisor or manager is to find the right combination to motivate an employee to perform better, to be more capable and to help them along to find better skills and improve their abilities. Motivation is and can be the instrument that invokes conviction to do better.
Since motivating someone takes a mind conscious atmosphere, it must also be addressed to the subconscious in order to circumvent critical thinking and make the impulse more instantaneously available to move them along. Thus we have to focus on emotional drivers and key words that trigger such a desired response.

Metaphors or the use of metaphors as motivational tools has been done for centuries. One can recall “We are Spartans” as a battle cry that allowed 300 battle ready warrior to face an enormously outnumbered enemy and fight with the kind of spirit and courage that put the enemy at awe of their opponents. Battle cries are often motivating metaphors. There are no photographs, no long stories, scripts or plays yet a single word can do what no book could ever imagine doing. One must only be certain these metaphors do not create false convictions and thus key on the positive provocation of such actions desired.

Provocative, motivating metaphors do not deal with statistics or facts. It has no relativity whatsoever to evidentiary or truth based notion. It is pure emotional provocation power that drives the mind to a higher level. It is called creating branded content that each and every one involved understands instantaneously and readily without more than a few words spoken.
 

There are no preludes, no foreplay or preparation for the mind to rise up from the unconscious into action. It must have the impact of a sudden adrenaline rush and cause the body to quiver and tense up to know they are ready to face the need and challenges given. Because of such tenacity and sudden strengths, it is important to take notice and advice that such potentially insidiously inflicted device [metaphors] it can spread the energy across a contagion of legions and become a powerful force to reckon with at that moment.

Motivational metaphors are exclusively designed to do battle, as they can be refined and orchestrated into softer toned responses with such emotions as kindness, compassion or empathy. The learned trick is to know which words stimulate the subconscious mind into action without the critical thinking process kicking in. It has to be a direct infused trigger with momentary impulses that create the desired thought or stimulation.
Eloquently spoken words can trigger softer and more symbolic uplifting of the mind and soul. One such motivator was Dr. Martin Luther King, a man who knew how to use words for his civil disobedience actions and unification of many races of people around the country. His mere word, “I have a Dream” has changed the lives of many people and continues to do so every day.

Thus we are all hard wired in the mind to use and accept metaphors as trigger impulses to change our behaviors or thinking patterns. How we create these changes depends on how creative we are. The more creative, the more effective metaphorical thinking is. Think of the brain as a grid of electricity and how it blends these impulses through the brain that has a lattice like pattern of nerve fibers.

There is less cross-wiring of the mind and this condition allows better synthesis with our sensory preceptors. You can see how creativity is instrumental in the mind when the word is pictorial or transformed into a thought, concept, idea and then, an eventual action. The more creativity, the more overlapping of the senses thus the better the stimuli to act upon it with clarity and understanding without saying a whole lot of words.

This bridging of our senses is created inside the mind because the mind itself is a metaphor. It contains all our thoughts, feelings, ideas and processes them as a direct result to the environment and comprehension of the message given. Remember some messages are or can be provocative or evocative in the form of a tangible or intangible communication.

The knowledge how to use these and not allow the translation to get lost is an art and designed to trigger an automatically generated emotion or emotions. Using metaphors to motivate is all about the meaningful innovative method of introducing the right words and phrases and make them meaningful to the mind to stimulate thoughts, ideas, feelings and actions.

The Kingman Report – the eleventh hour approaches

 

Months from now, when our elected officials evaluate the prison management style of Charles L. Ryan, what will they find and what will they say? Did the man who came from Abu Ghraib do a good job or did he sell the state prison system down the river in the name of private prison expansion and exploitation? Will he claim victory in giving the governor and his elected conspirators their share of the profits in selling human beings for labor and slavery camps? Will he secure a place in Arizona’s Hall of Shame or worse, was he the prelude to far greater horrors yet to come?

 

My hope, your hope, is that history would instead view this riot at Kingman was a catalyst; a second calling if you want or an awakening of the human mind and conscience. 

It should be your hope that this Kingman report makes you all stronger, wiser and more vigilant in the end. It is my hope it fully prepares you for future disturbances to come, if things don’t change. Don’t be afraid to ask difficult and tough questions. The report deserves nothing less and must stand on its own merits. 

After all is said, what good is struggle if there is no change? What good deed is a riot if those responsible for public safety and government integrity are not made stronger? Don’t let the means justify the end. There is more than is ever told and it’s your job to protect the public, your constituents and your government from further harm.

A basic understanding of a simulacra or simulation of the truth

A basic understanding of a simulacra or simulation of the truth

In an attempt to seek the relationship between reality and symbols in our society, we have to understand what simulacra is and how it works as a means to simulate or copy the reality and transforms into a truth when in fact, it has no truth but rather conceals the truth. The only reality is this act of simulacra or simulating what was never original to begin with and is a mere imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system.

Basically, if you don’t attempt to seek the truth, you will chase these simulacra or a simulation that basically leads you on a wild goose chase as you will never find the truth you are looking for. Symbols are easily created by creative minds. It’s a means to demonstrate, illustrate or show something the illusionist wants you to see and accept. Charts are symbols or figures of identity and can be easily created without any reality of substance attached to them. One has to be cautious when viewing and interpreting a chart or symbol of any kind and ask, where did it come from and how was it created.

For the purpose of human experience, simulations of reality are deceptive tools for those who want to hoodwink or lull you into a stage of contentment of satisfaction. They are simply used to hide the reality and conceal the truth. The basis or backgrounds for such illusions are culture and media. If you can explain the culture and manipulate the media, you have the ability to acquire a simulacra which constructs a meaning with no real basis but offers a make believe solution to a proposed problem.

Most political reports are saturated with such simulacra and merely cast shadows on the truth. It is the saturation of these simulacra that projects the meaningless meaning but serve the purposes to fool the reader into believing whatever is read or printed before them. Other examples are photographs that are Photoshopped, and illusions of realities type of movies such as the Matrix that create dimensional existences of substances involving time and space.

There are four stages to simulacra or simulation:

The first stage is the faithful saturation of an image, or a copy of an image we believe may be a reflection of the profound reality.
The second stage is the perversion of reality where we become to believe this copy is an unfaithful copy of the reality but through saturation is made into a believable copy rather than a false reality.
The third stage is the absence of a profound reality, where the perverted image or simulacrum pretends to be the faithful copy but is in fact, not an copy of the original symbol or sign.
The fourth stage is pure simulation, in which the simulacra has no relationship to any reality whatsoever and is merely a reflected sign or claim to reality on the part of the images or symbols presented in the order of such claims.
The transition from signs which dissimulate something to signs which dissimulate that there is nothing, marks the decisive turning point.