Call To Action: Part Two

Call To Action - Part Two: The X Factor = The Ability to Imagine

My Call To Action in Part One was clear: Don’t act without being aware of what led you to act in the first place.

My statement in Part Two may need a little more explaining: All you become aware of is what was originally imagined by you in the first place.

Nothing, no thinking, no decision, no choice, no action, takes place without us using, to a greater or lesser degree, our human capacity to imagine.
Sara Jacobovici

Summary of Part One: CTA = The Equation; what equals ACTION?

Conceptual definitions of the factors used in the equation.

The Result:

A=ACTION: an act of will; the fact or process of doing something, typically to achieve an aim.

The Process:

1. S=SENSATION: a mental process (as seeing, hearing, or smelling) resulting from the immediate external stimulation of a sense organ often as distinguished from a conscious awareness of the sensory process.

2. P=PERCEPTION: the state of being or process of becoming aware of something through the senses.

3. Mn=MEANING: what is meant by a word, text, concept, or action.

4. T=THINKING: the action of using one's mind to produce thoughts.

5. K=KNOWING: the state of being aware or informed.

Kh=Knowing how

Kw=Knowing why

AbK=Abstract based Knowledge

RbK=Rooted based Knowledge

6. C=CHOICE: an act of selecting or making a decision when faced with two or more possibilities.

7. De=DECISION: the act or process of deciding; a determination arrived at after consideration: a conclusion.

8. D=DOING: the activities in which a particular person engages by exerting an effort.

9. M=MOVEMENT: a series of organized activities working toward an objective; an organized effort to promote or attain an end.

Mdu=Movement duration

Mdi=Movment direction

The Equation:

Introduction to Part Two: We are sensory beings.

· Our Central Nervous System is continuously, perceiving, sorting, choosing and responding to information received through our sensory system.

· As the amniotic fluid is a greater sound carrier than water, our sensory environment begins in utero. As well as the auditory stimulation that occurs, the fetus experiences movement.

· After birth, our experiences continue to be shaped, formed and influenced by what we hear, see, smell, taste, touch, as well as experience proprioceptively and vestibularly.

Meaning is then created by the interactions between our internal and external environments and those sensory experiences. This is the ground work that is laid for choices we make in the future as we continue to interpret and associate the information we receive. Over the years, we collect and store these experiences. We construct and form memories.

Imagine:

One skill that we acquire is the ability to imagine; the ability to recreate sensory impressions and feelings in our minds in the absence of external stimuli.

Example:

When individuals diagnosed as being in a vegetative state did not show observable responses to communication, Adrian Owen, a neuro-scientist, set out to look at whether technological devices can assist us in seeing the non-observable. He used the instruction “imagine” to the individuals in the vegetative state while observing their brain activity on a functional Magnetic Resonance Imagining (fMRI) machine.

“It was June 2006. Wimbledon was on, and in a headline-stealing study, Owen took fMRI scans of a 23-year-old woman in a vegetative state while he asked her to imagine playing tennis and walking through the rooms of her house. When healthy, conscious adults imagine playing tennis, they consistently show activation in a region of the motor cortex called the supplementary motor area, and when they think about navigating through a house, they generate activity in the parahippocampal gyrus, right in the centre of the brain. The woman, who had been unresponsive for five months after a traffic accident, had strikingly similar brain activation patterns to healthy volunteers who were imagining these activities, proving, in Owen's mind, that she was conscious.”

In using our imagination, we can alter, combine, synthesize and otherwise manipulate sensory images to form images and ideas of things never before perceived in reality. We can plan for the future. We can conjure things that do not yet exist or may never will. We can take the creative leaps we call scientific hypotheses and artistic visions.

The Equation of Part One with the X Factor, Imagine, inserted.

Sensation(S) + Perception(P) = Meaning(Mn)
Meaning(Mn)to the power of Imagine(Im){Thinking(T) + Knowing(K)} + Choice(C) = Decision(De)
Decision(De) x Doing(D) = Movement(M)
Movement(M){Movement’s duration(Mdu + Movement’s direction(Mdi)} = ACTION
By factoring in the ability to imagine into the equation that leads to action, we can then perhaps see the bigger picture.

The Equation: example from Part One, now with the added factor of Imagine(Im)

Sensation(S) + Perception(P) = Meaning(Mn)
S: Hearing a consistent reassuring tone of voice + P: The voice is consistent; encouraging and supportive = M: It’s safe to venture out. I am not alone. I have support.
Meaning(Mn) to the power of Imagine(Im) {Thinking(T) + Knowing(K)} + Choice(C) = Decision(De)
M: It’s safe to venture out. I am not alone. I have support.Im: I can imagine myself speaking to my partner and investors, communicating to them to the best of my ability that this step makes sense in the development of the company. I can imagine the infrastructure the company needs in order to accommodate the increase in territory. I can imagine myself leading with confidence.