Training = Learning? LO14202

Winfried Dressler (winfried.dressler@voith.de)
Thu, 3 Jul 1997 15:36:25 +0100

This thread on beliefs reminds me of a cartoon which I laughed about some
years ago:

A dog is sitting on a tree and a boy is standing under the tree looking up
to the dog. The boy is thinking to himself "It is amazing, what you can
achieve, if you don't know, what is impossible."

My brief "definition" of value and belief: Values state what is good or
bad - what should be and what not. Beliefs state what is possible and
what is impossible. They include what I (think I) know about how the world
really is ("truths").

If one has a problem with ones values or beliefs, one is usually not
aware, that they are set by a decision one has taken in the past. The
process is like this: 1.) one had the choice - 2.) something happened -
3.) one decided 4.) as the result one has one choice less and one
belief/value more. As a selffulfilling prophecy, "life" confirms such
decisions again and again. So they are reasonable. The process to change a
decision is really very simple: It requires nothing but a new decision.
But this new decision must fulfill at least one important requirement: It
must be more convincing than the old decision. I guess that this is the
difficult part of the process. I also guess that this is why Mortys
companies name is "decisionmaker".

I have some questions, Morty: You are talking about "eliminating beliefs",
which I guess is a process to implement a belief, that another belief (to
be eliminated) is not convincing. It sounds for me like a memory erasing
virus on a computer: Isn't this the basic process of "brain-washing"? How
do you assure that the old eliminated beliefs are replaced by new, usefull
beliefs? How is decided and who decides, what a usefull belief is? Are you
working with / changing the "What I need to be convinced"-metabelief of
your customers? And finally, because all beliefs of one person work
together as a system, changing or eliminating one belief will in general
lead to side-effects somewhere else. How do you take care of these
side-effects?

You see from my questions that I do not doubt that you do what you claim
you are doing. But I believe (!) that you are doing a very responsible
job. Hearing that you are eliminating beliefs of thousands of people in
less than one hour per person (per group?) gives me a very strange feeling
(which I would not have if I just could not believe).

Looking forward to hearing more about you,

Winfried

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