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Drim Solutions
Drim Solutions
Dramatic Improvement solutions arranged and applied in different solution domains.
Drim Solutions
Drim Solutions are counter-intuitive (of necessity) solutions that secure a dramatic improvement in performance.
The current solution domains are:
- Personal Drim Solutions.
- Organisational Drim Solution (for different roles).
- Civilisation Drim Solutions.
The solutions all follow repeating patterns - and ultimately, the same pattern. The domains apply these patterns to specific arenas in the domains.
Personal Drim Solutions
Dramatic improvement solutions for oneself and interaction with others.
Personal Drim Solutions
- Confidence
- Relationships
- Career
- Productivity
- Ingenuity
- Sport
- Weightloss
- Mastery
- Wealth
Organisational Drim Solutions
Dramatic improvement solutions for organisations.
Organisational Drim Solutions
- Personal Impact and Fulfilment.
- Marketing
- Sales
- Distribution
- Production
- Projects
- R&D and Product Development
- Finance
- Management
Civilisation Drim Solutions
Dramatic improvement solutions for our civilisation and our planet.
Civilisation Drim Solutions
- Education.
- Poverty.
- Healthcare.
- Democracy.
- Crime.
- Fundamentalism.
- Capitalism.
- Existential Threats.
The Change Drim Dimension
How to Accelerate and Enrich Change
Having a perfect solution is of only academic value without the ability to make the change from the old way of doing things to the new way.
How to Accelerate and Enrich Change
The problem is that we are so familiar with the old way that we can follow it automatically, while the new way is unproven, untested and full of risks and kinks.
The solution is to collaborate in creating simple frameworks for identifying and mitigating risks and ironing out kinks - and to give people the opportunity to become adept at the new way, over time, before abandoning the old way.
The trick is to make the new way way more compellingly attractive, appealing and addictive than the old way, in the short-term – for all parties.
The Top Five Change Prerequisites
There are five primary prerequisites for dramatic improvement change - satisfying them and you get engagement - ignore them and you get resistance.
The Top Five Change Prerequisites
- We need to know how to respond to deliberate change initiatives - to overcome resistance.
- We need a framework to help us learn the new way, until it becomes the default, automatic way.
- We need to become adept at switching our behaviour early enough in the process.
- We need minimise the chaos of change, starting in a contained area and expanding over time.
- We need a way to create pull (instead of push) for change - that people compete to be a part of.
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The Top Five Change Solutions
Transform the conventional coercive push-system that is resisted with a vengeance into a compellingly attractive pull-system that is embraced with passion.
The Top Five Change Change Solutions
- Response Framework: Provide helpful ways of managing the cognitive dissonance of change.
- The Change Management Framework: Provide guidance in how to engage in the new initiative.
- Behaviour Change Triggers: Identify triggers to help people switch tot he new at the easiest point.
- Ripples in a Pond: use pull to start in one place and move outwards in benefit justifying stages.
- Restricting Access: Restrict access to where the appetite, aptitude and influence is highest.
The Response Framework
Simple framework to deal with the cognitive dissonance that arises from being faced with new ideas that you aren’t that familiar with.
The Response Framework
A series of simple questions to diagnose the origin of cognitive dissonance and respond accordingly.
Do you have reservations about:
- The Goal: what we're seeking to achieve?
- The Problem: what's holding us back?
- The Solution we're adopting for the Problem?
- The Plan: how we'll implement the solution?
- Your role in the plan?
If so, raise your concerns and present alternatives.
CMF
The Change Management Framework
A simple diagnostic and intervention framework to help people to target their change efforts.
CMF
The Change Management Framework
Diagnose and intervene, surgically at the lagging prerequisite(s) for change.
Resistance to change is very seldom illogical - never mind wilful. There's always a perfectly understandable reason for it - even if not a totally valid one.
Identifying, ahead of time, the full set of potentially valid concerns that people might have - and providing ways of addressing them to everyone's satisfaction, smooths the way for and enhances change.
The Behaviour Change Trigger Pattern
Identify and clearly define the Change Trigger point and symptoms and contrast the new responseand it's prosequences with the old one and its consequences.
The Change Trigger Pattern
- Define the ideal transition point in migrating from the old way to the new way.
- Work out what triggers to use to prompt/remind ourselves to change to the new way.
- Identify the Prosequences of the new way and the Consequence of the old way.
- Contrast the new approach with the old approach.
- Use deep practice to make the transition easier and more effective.
Ripples in a Pond
Start small, tight and concentrated and expand outwards only as the value become obvious.
Ripples in a Pond
- Start with a series of small pilots where the appetite, aptitude and influence is greatest.
- Allow the roll-out to happen slowly at first - under the influence of pull, rather than push.
- Allow - and bring - momentum to gather over time - setting a cadence that people are comfortable with.
- Ensure the learnigns are captured, recognised and disseminated in a way that makes the transition attractive and appealing to people.
Restricted Access
Instead of trying to coerce people to join the change Programme, restrict access to it and encourage them to compete for the opportunity.
Restricted Access
- Rank Change Program Champions on Appetite, Aptitude and Influence.
- Tap the shoulder's of ideal Champions ahead of time, letting them know that volunteering will advance their career.
- Warn everyone that they'll be compeiting for a very small number of Chamption opportunities.
- Ask for volunteers - and accept only as many as advertised.
- Lavish attention, support, praise and promotion on the Champions.
How to Improve Any Situation or Thing Dramatically
How to Improve Any Situation or Thing Dramatically
Every single situation and thing can be improved dramatically. Here's how.
How to Improve Any Situation or Thing Dramatically
Simplified overview of the entire website and body of knowledge. It's a good place to start.
- You can improve any situation or thing dramatically, using simple levers hidden within it.
- There are 6 primary drim dimensions: Flow | Ingenuity | Change | Mastery | Synergy | Meaning.
- Combine and apply the most obvious combinationof drim dimension levers to your situation or thing.
Drim Is Always Possible
Dramatic improvement is not only possible but feasible in every single situation and with every single thing.
Drim Is Always Possible
The Drim Manifesto
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The FACT: Dramatic Improvement is EMINENTLY
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The KEY Is LEVERAGE: The more challenging the situation, the greater the leverage.
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The PROBLEM: WE CAN’T SEE the leverage opportunities – it’s not that they aren’t there.
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The SOLUTION: WE CAN’T SEE the leverage opportunities – it’s not that they aren’t there.
The Drim Dimensions
Flow|Ingenuity|Change|Mastery|Synergy|Meaning
The Drim Dimensions
There are a number of closely-related dimensions to drim - the more you use, the better.
Flow: The speed and rate that stuff is produced.
Ingenuity: Simple counter-intuitive solutions.
Change: Transitioning from old to new.
Mastery: Knowledge, expertise & experience.
Synergy: 2 + 2 = 5: things and people.
Meaning: The "why" that drives everything.
The Drim Levers
Flow|Ingenuity|Change|Mastery|Synergy|Meaning
The Drim Levers
The key secrets to drim in each dimension are:
Flow: Get more through the bottleneck.
Ingenuity: Generate & integrate alternatives.
Change: Make the new way more attractive in the short-term.
Mastery: Practice early diagnosis & intervention.
Synergy: Satisfy respective needs & aspirations.
Meaning: Connect & align solution to meaning.
How to Use the Drim Levers
Every single situation and thing can be improved dramatically. Here're the steps.
How to Use the Drim Levers
- Identify each Drim Dimension within the situation or thing.
- Work out which are the most relevant to you.
- Work out how each Drim Lever could be used to get the impact you're seeking.
- Find a way of combining the levers - in parallel and in sequence.
- Develop a staged Intervention Plan, specifying which Dimensions will be targeted and how.
- Implement the Intervention Plan: repeatedly.
COMING SOON
Drim Stories
Our brains grasp, understand, retain and retrieve stories way better than information, facts and concepts.
This section will contain a set of drim stories - and how to code and create your own library of stories to make your drim practice easierm, quicker and mopre effective.
Implications
The implications of the Drim Manifesto are huge and apply to abolutely every challenging situation or thing - including things that you have long resigned to be intractable.
Implications
Whatever challenging situation you are facing right now can be improved dramatically - no matter how intractable it may seem.
It's normal, if you've tried everything you could think of, to feel that the situation is intractable - no matter what one might try. The Manifesto explains why you haven't any traction so far - and how to change that.
If your current situation isn't challenging - merely boring - it can be improved dramatically as well: if that appeals to you.
Take Immediate Action
This is not the sort of thing that needs hours and hours of research and understanding - there is a fast-track that only takes a few minutes.
Take Immediate Action
A. If you have an hour to invest:
It's worth reading the rest of this Quick Article - and following the advice on each page, as you go.
B. If you have less than an hour to invest:
Just check out the Drim Dimensions section on the next page. Skim the Dimensions, then follow the instructions on the Take Immediate Action flashcard (same image as this one) on that page.
Click the 
here or at the top or bottom of the page.
The Flow Dimension
site version notes | release roadmap | how this page works | how to use itThe Dramatic Improvement Framework
The Drîm (Dramatic Improvement: 'Dream') Framework is a framework of simple frameworks for dramatically improving any situation or thing.
The Dramatic Improvement Framework
The Dramatic Improvement Framework underlies all of the solutions on this site and is the foundation of our Drîm Practice. It comprises:
- The drîm Manifesto that outlines the basic thesis.
- A set of Drîm Dimension Solution Patterns to apply to the situation or thing to be improved.
- The Drîm Method which provides a set of simple steps for applying the solution patterns to your situation.
Start here if you're new to this site and concept.
The Dramatic Improvement Framework
The Drîm (Dramatic Improvement: 'Dream') Framework is a framework of simple frameworks for dramatically improving any situation or thing.
The Dramatic Improvement Framework
The Dramatic Improvement Framework underlies all of the solutions on this site and is the foundation of our Drîm Practice. It comprises:
- The drîm Manifesto that outlines the basic thesis.
- A set of Drîm Dimension Solution Patterns to apply to the situation or thing to be improved.
- The Drîm Method which provides a set of simple steps for applying the solution patterns to your situation.
Start here if you're new to this site and concept.
The Dramatic Improvement Framework
The Drîm (Dramatic Improvement: 'Dream') Framework is a framework of simple frameworks for dramatically improving any situation or thing.
The Dramatic Improvement Framework
The Dramatic Improvement Framework underlies all of the solutions on this site and is the foundation of our Drîm Practice. It comprises:
- The drîm Manifesto that outlines the basic thesis.
- A set of Drîm Dimension Solution Patterns to apply to the situation or thing to be improved.
- The Drîm Method which provides a set of simple steps for applying the solution patterns to your situation.
Start here if you're new to this site and concept.
The Dramatic Improvement Framework
The Drîm (Dramatic Improvement: 'Dream') Framework is a framework of simple frameworks for dramatically improving any situation or thing.
The Dramatic Improvement Framework
The Dramatic Improvement Framework underlies all of the solutions on this site and is the foundation of our Drîm Practice. It comprises:
- The drîm Manifesto that outlines the basic thesis.
- A set of Drîm Dimension Solution Patterns to apply to the situation or thing to be improved.
- The Drîm Method which provides a set of simple steps for applying the solution patterns to your situation.
Start here if you're new to this site and concept.
The Dramatic Improvement Framework
The Drîm (Dramatic Improvement: 'Dream') Framework is a framework of simple frameworks for dramatically improving any situation or thing.
The Dramatic Improvement Framework
The Dramatic Improvement Framework underlies all of the solutions on this site and is the foundation of our Drîm Practice. It comprises:
- The drîm Manifesto that outlines the basic thesis.
- A set of Drîm Dimension Solution Patterns to apply to the situation or thing to be improved.
- The Drîm Method which provides a set of simple steps for applying the solution patterns to your situation.
Start here if you're new to this site and concept.
The Dramatic Improvement Framework
The Drîm (Dramatic Improvement: 'Dream') Framework is a framework of simple frameworks for dramatically improving any situation or thing.
The Dramatic Improvement Framework
The Dramatic Improvement Framework underlies all of the solutions on this site and is the foundation of our Drîm Practice. It comprises:
- The drîm Manifesto that outlines the basic thesis.
- A set of Drîm Dimension Solution Patterns to apply to the situation or thing to be improved.
- The Drîm Method which provides a set of simple steps for applying the solution patterns to your situation.
Start here if you're new to this site and concept.
The Dramatic Improvement Framework
The Drîm (Dramatic Improvement: 'Dream') Framework is a framework of simple frameworks for dramatically improving any situation or thing.
The Dramatic Improvement Framework
The Dramatic Improvement Framework underlies all of the solutions on this site and is the foundation of our Drîm Practice. It comprises:
- The drîm Manifesto that outlines the basic thesis.
- A set of Drîm Dimension Solution Patterns to apply to the situation or thing to be improved.
- The Drîm Method which provides a set of simple steps for applying the solution patterns to your situation.
Start here if you're new to this site and concept.
The Dramatic Improvement Framework
The Drîm (Dramatic Improvement: 'Dream') Framework is a framework of simple frameworks for dramatically improving any situation or thing.
The Dramatic Improvement Framework
The Dramatic Improvement Framework underlies all of the solutions on this site and is the foundation of our Drîm Practice. It comprises:
- The drîm Manifesto that outlines the basic thesis.
- A set of Drîm Dimension Solution Patterns to apply to the situation or thing to be improved.
- The Drîm Method which provides a set of simple steps for applying the solution patterns to your situation.
Start here if you're new to this site and concept.
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The Understanding Drîm Dimension
site version notes | release roadmap | how this page works | how to use itThe Understanding Dimension
site version notes | release roadmap | how this page works | how to use itThe Understanding Drîm Dimension
Understanding how people and things work.
The Understanding Drîm Dimension
The Understanding Drîm Dimension is the most fundamental and critical of the dimensions, because it deals with our understanding of reality - both in general and in each of the other drîm dimensions.
Dramatic improvement in Understanding enables us to troubleshoot all dimensions - including itself.
Understanding is consequently the hardest to grasp at the start, but the most fruitful to invest time and effort in, once you have grasped it.
The Understanding Drîm Dimension
Understanding how people and things work.
The Understanding Drîm Dimension
The Understanding Drîm Dimension is the most fundamental and critical of the dimensions, because it deals with our understanding of reality - both in general and in each of the other drîm dimensions.
Dramatic improvement in Understanding enables us to troubleshoot all dimensions - including itself.
Understanding is consequently the hardest to grasp at the start, but the most fruitful to invest time and effort in, once you have grasped it.
Definition
Aligning our perception of how things work with reality.
Definition
The Understanding Drîm Dimension deals with the alignment of perception with reality and is consequently critical to dramatic improvement.
If there's a high level of alignment between perception and reality, then the chances of drîm success is high. If the level of alignment is low, the chances of success become vanishingly small.
The problem is that we are notoriously poor at aligning our perception with reality and even weaker at detecting misalignment.
Definition
Aligning our perception of how things work with reality.
Definition
The Understanding Drîm Dimension deals with the alignment of perception with reality and is consequently critical to dramatic improvement.
If there's a high level of alignment between perception and reality, then the chances of drîm success is high. If the level of alignment is low, the chances of success become vanishingly small.
The problem is that we are notoriously poor at aligning our perception with reality and even weaker at detecting misalignment.
The Challenge
We're trapped in and by our own understanding.
The Challenge
There's no reliable reference understanding to assess or improve our beliefs against - so it's easy to become trapped in our own thinking and echo-chamber.
The dynamically complex nature of reality makes dramatic improvement demanding enough - Cognitive Biases, Logical Fallacies and Unconscious Incognizance compound the problem and make it hard for us to detect where we're mistaken and work out how to correct our thinking.
The Challenge
We're trapped in and by our own understanding.
The Challenge
There's no reliable reference understanding to assess or improve our beliefs against - so it's easy to become trapped in our own thinking and echo-chamber.
The dynamically complex nature of reality makes dramatic improvement demanding enough - Cognitive Biases, Logical Fallacies and Unconscious Incognizance compound the problem and make it hard for us to detect where we're mistaken and work out how to correct our thinking.
The Solution Requirement
We need ways of recognising, identifying and correcting flawed understanding.
The Solution Requirement
We need reliable ways to:
- Bring us to recognise when our understanding is flawed: it's easy to blame others or situation intractability.
- Work out where the flaw in our understanding is - we're slow to give up hard-won beliefs and understanding.
- Come up with a better understanding - we often don't even know where to start or how to go about it.
The Solution Requirement
We need ways of recognising, identifying and correcting flawed understanding.
The Solution Requirement
We need reliable ways to:
- Bring us to recognise when our understanding is flawed: it's easy to blame others or situation intractability.
- Work out where the flaw in our understanding is - we're slow to give up hard-won beliefs and understanding.
- Come up with a better understanding - we often don't even know where to start or how to go about it.
The General Solution
Test our understanding against past, virtual and future reality and for common flaws and weaknesses.
The General Solution
- Set up triggers and filters for identifying that we have an understanding problem.
- Establish diagnostics for working out where the flaw is in our understanding.
- Design a simple method for generating, integrating and testing alternatives to the existing understanding.
Fortunately, we don't have to restrict ourselves to live tests, we can run them virtually, on historical situations and mental models of future scenarios.
The General Solution
Test our understanding against past, virtual and future reality and for common flaws and weaknesses.
The General Solution
- Set up triggers and filters for identifying that we have an understanding problem.
- Establish diagnostics for working out where the flaw is in our understanding.
- Design a simple method for generating, integrating and testing alternatives to the existing understanding.
Fortunately, we don't have to restrict ourselves to live tests, we can run them virtually, on historical situations and mental models of future scenarios.
Misunderstanding Detection
Create triggers to identify belief:reality misalignment.
Misunderstanding Detection
Without triggers that bring us to question our beliefs, we remain trapped in ignorance and misconception, dramatic improvement forever beyound our reach.
- When we feel unconfident, uncertain, apprehensive or worried about some potential outcome.
- When things go wrong
- When we notice repeating patterns of frustration, disaapointment or failure.
- Periodic, scheduled impact reviews.
- When designing and planning critical initiatives.
Misunderstanding Detection
Create triggers to identify belief:reality misalignment.
Misunderstanding Detection
Without triggers that bring us to question our beliefs, we remain trapped in ignorance and misconception, dramatic improvement forever beyound our reach.
- When we feel unconfident, uncertain, apprehensive or worried about some potential outcome.
- When things go wrong
- When we notice repeating patterns of frustration, disaapointment or failure.
- Periodic, scheduled impact reviews.
- When designing and planning critical initiatives.
How to Detect a Flawed Understanding
Create triggers to identify belief:reality misalignment.
How to Detect a Flawed Understanding
Without triggers that bring us to question our beliefs, we remain trapped in ignorance and misconception, dramatic improvement forever beyound our reach.
- When we feel unconfident, uncertain, apprehensive or worried about some potential outcome.
- When things go wrong
- When we notice repeating patterns of frustration, disaapointment or failure.
- Periodic, scheduled impact reviews.
- When designing and planning critical initiatives.
How to Detect a Flawed Understanding
Create triggers to identify belief:reality misalignment.
How to Detect a Flawed Understanding
Without triggers that bring us to question our beliefs, we remain trapped in ignorance and misconception, dramatic improvement forever beyound our reach.
- When we feel unconfident, uncertain, apprehensive or worried about some potential outcome.
- When things go wrong
- When we notice repeating patterns of frustration, disaapointment or failure.
- Periodic, scheduled impact reviews.
- When designing and planning critical initiatives.
How to Identify Understanding Flaws
It's one thing to know that something isn't working - another to find and diagnose the flaw.
How to Identify Understanding Flaws
Having a full list of potential success failure modes makes diagnosis quicker, faster, easier and more reliable. The most common failure modes are:
- Wrong | Incomplete | Contaminated Data.
- Misinterpreted Data | Flawed Assumptions| Flawed Logic or Reasoning.
- Wrong Goal | Wrong Problem | Wrong Solution | Flawed Application | Flawed Implementation
- One or More Flawed Parts | One or more Flawed Aspects | One or more Flawed Combinations.
How to Identify Understanding Flaws
It's one thing to know that something isn't working - another to find and diagnose the flaw.
How to Identify Understanding Flaws
Having a full list of potential success failure modes makes diagnosis quicker, faster, easier and more reliable. The most common failure modes are:
- Wrong | Incomplete | Contaminated Data.
- Misinterpreted Data | Flawed Assumptions| Flawed Logic or Reasoning.
- Wrong Goal | Wrong Problem | Wrong Solution | Flawed Application | Flawed Implementation
- One or More Flawed Parts | One or more Flawed Aspects | One or more Flawed Combinations.
BRAT Classification
A simple technique to Assess, Test and Classify Beliefs.
BRAT can also be used to correct and enhance beliefs.
BRAT Classification
- Articulate the Belief.
- Provide the Reason for the Belief.
- Assess the Reason against Cognitive Biases and Logical Fallacies.
- Test the Belief against actual and virtual Future, Past and Present Reality.
- Classify the Belief as Fact, Likely, Uncertain, Unlikely or Fiction.
BRAT helps us replace fallacious beliefs so that we believe as any truths and as few falsehoods as possible.
BRAT Classification
A simple technique to Assess, Test and Classify Beliefs.
BRAT can also be used to correct and enhance beliefs.
BRAT Classification
- Articulate the Belief.
- Provide the Reason for the Belief.
- Assess the Reason against Cognitive Biases and Logical Fallacies.
- Test the Belief against actual and virtual Future, Past and Present Reality.
- Classify the Belief as Fact, Likely, Uncertain, Unlikely or Fiction.
BRAT helps us replace fallacious beliefs so that we believe as any truths and as few falsehoods as possible.
How to Enhance Understanding
Identify and replace or enhance the least true beliefs, by generating and integrating alternatives.
How to Enhance Understanding
- Generate and integrate alternatives to a starting hypothesis/belief.
- Find domain, dimension & arena opportunities.
- Integrate by looking for repeating patterns and compatibilities and resolving apparent conflicts.
- Alternate between first principles and reverse-engineering thinking, to bridge the gap between current and desired reality.
- Deliberately identify and remove or enhance the least true beliefs (using - eg BRAT).
How to Enhance Understanding
Identify and replace or enhance the least true beliefs, by generating and integrating alternatives.
How to Enhance Understanding
- Generate and integrate alternatives to a starting hypothesis/belief.
- Find domain, dimension & arena opportunities.
- Integrate by looking for repeating patterns and compatibilities and resolving apparent conflicts.
- Alternate between first principles and reverse-engineering thinking, to bridge the gap between current and desired reality.
- Deliberately identify and remove or enhance the least true beliefs (using - eg BRAT).
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The Top 6 Meaning Models and Solutions
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How to Enrich and Achieve Meaning
Meaning is a what motivates us - our motivations and beliefs and how they inhibit and drive individual and collective performance and fulfilment.
How to Enrich and Achieve Meaning
Meaning and purpose - immediate and ultimate - drives all human activity and provides huge untapped opportunity for dramatic improvement.
The challenge with keying into meaning is that it is elusive and not as well-defined, logically grounded, accessible or easy to articulate as we may like to think.
The secret is to recognise that it's fundamentally about our perceived significance within the world we choose to live in - and our value system (what we think is important) and the mental model we have of how things work.
How to Enrich and Achieve Meaning
Meaning is a what motivates us - our motivations and beliefs and how they inhibit and drive individual and collective performance and fulfilment.
How to Enrich and Achieve Meaning
Meaning and purpose - immediate and ultimate - drives all human activity and provides huge untapped opportunity for dramatic improvement.
The challenge with keying into meaning is that it is elusive and not as well-defined, logically grounded, accessible or easy to articulate as we may like to think.
The secret is to recognise that it's fundamentally about our perceived significance within the world we choose to live in - and our value system (what we think is important) and the mental model we have of how things work.
The Motivation Model
We know that motivation is crucial to behaviour, but struggle to become - and stay - motivated and struggle to motivate others and keep them motivated.
The Motivation Model
We know that motivation is crucial to behaviour, but struggle to become - and stay - motivated and struggle to motivate others and keep them motivated.
The key to motivation is to realise that it's the link between our perception of meaning and our behaviour - and that different things are meaningful in different situational contexts (Think: Maslow).
The secret to sustainable motivation is to determine and connect with what is most meaningful - to ourselves and others - within the context. And then keep reminding ourselves of the connection.
The Motivation Model
We know that motivation is crucial to behaviour, but struggle to become - and stay - motivated and struggle to motivate others and keep them motivated.
The Motivation Model
We know that motivation is crucial to behaviour, but struggle to become - and stay - motivated and struggle to motivate others and keep them motivated.
The key to motivation is to realise that it's the link between our perception of meaning and our behaviour - and that different things are meaningful in different situational contexts (Think: Maslow).
The secret to sustainable motivation is to determine and connect with what is most meaningful - to ourselves and others - within the context. And then keep reminding ourselves of the connection.
The Worldview | Beliefs Model
Our world is the product of our beliefs about meaning.
The Worldview | Beliefs Model
Our worldview is the product of our beliefs, which, in turn are created by contemplation on experiences and influences in our lives.
Worldview is belief-based, not reality-based. Our beliefs are our society- and environment-assisted interpretation of past, current and future reality.
The point here is that our worldview is on fairly shaky ground, because beliefs are valuable and reliable only as temporary proxies - avatars - for reality.
We need to keep checking them against reality.
The Worldview | Beliefs Model
Our world is the product of our beliefs about meaning.
The Worldview | Beliefs Model
Our worldview is the product of our beliefs, which, in turn are created by contemplation on experiences and influences in our lives.
Worldview is belief-based, not reality-based. Our beliefs are our society- and environment-assisted interpretation of past, current and future reality.
The point here is that our worldview is on fairly shaky ground, because beliefs are valuable and reliable only as temporary proxies - avatars - for reality.
We need to keep checking them against reality.
Meaning:Worldview Alignment
Our worldview is the set of beliefs we hold about what is meaningful. Our ability to secure dramatic and sustainable improvement is dependent on the accuracy of our worldview so it's crucial that we work out what our worldview is : how closely our beliefs about reality coincide with that reality - and what we do to improve that alignment.
Meaning:Worldview Alignment
Meaning is elusive, because it's intangible and varies - between people, over time and situationally. There're many dimensions to meaning, so it's often quite difficult to articulate accurately and effectively.
The matter is further clouded by the worldview problem. Worldview is our perception of meaning - our beliefs about what will satisfy and fulfil us - distorted by Cognitive Biases and Logical Fallacies.
The trick is to deliberately test our worldview:
Past: Does it adequately explain past reality?
Future: Does it adequately predict future reality?
Meaning:Worldview Alignment
Our worldview is the set of beliefs we hold about what is meaningful. Our ability to secure dramatic and sustainable improvement is dependent on the accuracy of our worldview so it's crucial that we work out what our worldview is : how closely our beliefs about reality coincide with that reality - and what we do to improve that alignment.
Meaning:Worldview Alignment
Meaning is elusive, because it's intangible and varies - between people, over time and situationally. There're many dimensions to meaning, so it's often quite difficult to articulate accurately and effectively.
The matter is further clouded by the worldview problem. Worldview is our perception of meaning - our beliefs about what will satisfy and fulfil us - distorted by Cognitive Biases and Logical Fallacies.
The trick is to deliberately test our worldview:
Past: Does it adequately explain past reality?
Future: Does it adequately predict future reality?
The Worldview Model
Our worldview is the combination of our values and the model we use for advancing them - adding value.
The Worldview Model
It's worth working what our worldview is - and what the worldviews of others are, to (a) be able to key into and key things to our own worldview and (b) to be able to key into and the key things to their worldview.
It's worth working out what your ideal and actual worldviews are. Your ideal worldview is the relative importance you put on each value. Your actual worldview is reflected in the attention, time and effort you've invested in each one over the last 30 days.
You might be surprised at the difference between the two! So don't be surprised if others are the same!
The Worldview Model
Our worldview is the combination of our values and the model we use for advancing them - adding value.
The Worldview Model
It's worth working what our worldview is - and what the worldviews of others are, to (a) be able to key into and key things to our own worldview and (b) to be able to key into and the key things to their worldview.
It's worth working out what your ideal and actual worldviews are. Your ideal worldview is the relative importance you put on each value. Your actual worldview is reflected in the attention, time and effort you've invested in each one over the last 30 days.
You might be surprised at the difference between the two! So don't be surprised if others are the same!
How to Key Into Meaning
Connecting the dots between meaning and the desired behaviours, produces motivation: the rocket fuel for dramatic improvement.
How to Key Into Meaning
Once we've determined what our worldview is and are actively improving its alignment with reality, we can key activities - both ours and others - to it.
It will seem as if the activities - especially the more mundane ones - are totally unrelated, at first. But it only takes a little effort and practise before things start connecting up in all of our brains.
At that point, things start becoming more fulfilling and effortless and a virtual cycle is quickly established. The cycle can be maintained if we remain vigilant - re-establishing the connection every time it gets lost.
How to Key Into Meaning
Connecting the dots between meaning and the desired behaviours, produces motivation: the rocket fuel for dramatic improvement.
How to Key Into Meaning
Once we've determined what our worldview is and are actively improving its alignment with reality, we can key activities - both ours and others - to it.
It will seem as if the activities - especially the more mundane ones - are totally unrelated, at first. But it only takes a little effort and practise before things start connecting up in all of our brains.
At that point, things start becoming more fulfilling and effortless and a virtual cycle is quickly established. The cycle can be maintained if we remain vigilant - re-establishing the connection every time it gets lost.
How to Escape Dogmatism
We are all trapped in dogmatism - a form of fundamentalism that's essential to our ability to reason and communicate, but a constraint on progress.
How to Escape Dogmatism
The key to escaping dogmatism is to deliberately test our worldview against reality - and enhance it until it more accurately explains & predicts reality accurately.
Past: Does it adequately explain past reality?
Future: Does it adequately predict future reality?
The past provides a huge opportunity for conducting this testing, because we don't have to wait for things to unfold before we can test the hypothesis. We can quickly see whether people behave and events turn as our model predicts - & correct the model if they don't.
How to Escape Dogmatism
We are all trapped in dogmatism - a form of fundamentalism that's essential to our ability to reason and communicate, but a constraint on progress.
How to Escape Dogmatism
The key to escaping dogmatism is to deliberately test our worldview against reality - and enhance it until it more accurately explains & predicts reality accurately.
Past: Does it adequately explain past reality?
Future: Does it adequately predict future reality?
The past provides a huge opportunity for conducting this testing, because we don't have to wait for things to unfold before we can test the hypothesis. We can quickly see whether people behave and events turn as our model predicts - & correct the model if they don't.
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The Ingenuity Dimension
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(Alternative Generation & Integration
A way of deliberately and systematically developing lateral, outside-the box solutions.
AGI
(Alternative Generation & Integration
Generate and integrate significant alternatives to a starting provisional solution.
The starting provisional solution defines and is defined by the box one is currently thinking in.
Generating alternatives to it forces one to come up with something outside that box: a solution that defines its own - different - box. Integrating the solution ideas defines a new - more powerful and valid - box.
2. The Ingenuity Dimension Solutions
Every challenging situation requires extraordinary ingenuity - because we don't know what we don't know. This is a non-trivial problem to solve!
2. The Ingenuity Dimension Solutions
- Provisionals: Generate a series of rough, provisional solutions.
- AGI: Generate and integrate alternatives to the current provisional solution.
- GPS: Establish the single Goal, Problem and Solution for all stakeholders in all time periods.
- Pattern Thinking: Instead of compromising or choosing between inadequate solutions, find the repeating pattern across them.
- RET: Reverse-Engineer solutions from the benefts sought to the solution features required.
2. The Ingenuity Dimension
Ingenuity focuses on individual and collective genius - coming up with smarter, better, cheaper, more sustainable and predictable outcomes.
2. The Ingenuity Dimension
The problem with ingenuity is that it's extremely challenging - biologically - to come up with new outside-the-box solutions and insights.
Deliberately generating and integrating alternative ways of enhancing key dimensions of an evolving solution prototype enables us to escape this physiological constraint.
Applying patterns that resolve the common contradictions between physical properties accelerates things even further.
The Top Five Ingenuity Levers
Using these levers - independently or in concert - guarantees next-level outside-the-box genuius insights and solutions in a fraction of the normal time.
The Top Five Ingenuity Levers
- Provisionals: Tangible artefacts are way easier to improve than intangible ones.
- AGI: Integrating alternatives is way more effective than ranking and selecting them.
- Pattern Thinking: Finding and using the underlying patterns is the secret of genius.
- GPS: Distinguishing between goal, problem and solution unlocks and stimulates focused genius.
- AWAPITA: Working to deadline, without pressure shifts the focus from perfection to progress.
The Top Five Ingenuity Lever Solutions
Using these levers - independently or in concert - guarantees next-level outside-the-box genuius insights and solutions in a fraction of the normal time.
The Top Five Ingenuity Lever Solutions
- Provisionals: Force out a provisional solution, no matter how inadequate and enhance it iteratively.
- AGI: Generate and Integrate alternatives to a starting provisional solution or design.
- Pattern Thinking: Generate lots of ideas. Find common themes. Find the repeating pattern.
- GPS: Clarify the Goal, then the Problem and only then the Solution to maximise impact & efficiency.
- AWAPITA: Focus on completing As Well As Possible In the Time Available, rather than ASAP.
Provisionals Technique
Use the power of provisional solutions to overcome the Peter Principle and Perfectionism.
Provisionals Technique
Provisionals Technique is deliberately adopting very rough and of necessity inadequate solutions ahead of any thought or research.
The power of provisionals lies in their creation of a tangible working solution - that is a lot easier to enhance than an ethereal solution that doesn't yet exist.
Provisionals can take the form of a few descriptive words or a rough diagram or barely-working prototype: anything to trigger of the enhancement phase of the innovation cycle.
AGI
Alternative Generation & Integration
A way of deliberately and systematically developing lateral, outside-the box breakthrough solutions.
AGI
Alternative Generation & Integration
Generate and integrate significant alternatives to a starting provisional solution.
The starting provisional solution defines and is defined by the box one is currently thinking in.
Generating alternatives to it forces one to come up with something outside that box: a solution that defines its own - different - box.
Integrating the solution ideas defines a new - bigger & more powerful & valid - box.
Pattern Thinking
Generate genius-level insights and solutions, on demand.
Pattern Thinking
Pattern Thinking is a simple technique for finding the otherwise invisible repeating patterns that drive and constrain the behaviour and performance of complex adaptive systems that make challenging situations seem so intractable.
The basic idea is to list the elements of the situation - like issues and challenges, opportunities and solutions and then, instead of comparing them for and raking them on difference, look for similarities and repeating patterns - they won’t be immediately obvious but very quickly leap into focus.
GPS Pattern
Goal|Problem|Solution Pattern
Simple, powerful, universal strategy model.
GPS Pattern
Goal|Problem|Solution Pattern
Identify:
- The single goal all stakeholders share, immediately and into the future,
- The single core problem they all face, immediately and into the future - from which all other issues and symptoms arise and then
- develop a single, simple breakthrough solution that solves the single core problem and secures the single goal for all parties in all timeframes.
AWAPITA
As Well As Possible In The Time
Available/Allocated/Assigned
A powerful and effective alternative to ASAP.
AWAPITA
As Well As Possible In The Time
Available/Allocated/Assigned
Completing something AWAPITA rather than ASAP switches the focus from perfection-as-long-as-it-takes to getting-it-done-in-a-timely-way-even-if-it's-not-perfect). It enables us to overcome perfectionism, procrastination and multitasking and accelerate innovation and productivity.
It combines well with Provisionals, AGI and fast-cycle, multi-pass innovation.
GBE (Good|Bad|Exceptional)
Simple framework and method for helping people escape the box of mediocrity.
GBE (Good|Bad|Exceptional)
GBE gets people to list current and potential good and bad features and experiences of products and services in a brainstorming way.
Then collaborate to develop good features and experiences against each bad one - with a view to replacing the bad ones with good ones.
The real impact comes from the third step, which is to create a third, Exceptional column/category to bring people to extrapolate and use other techniques to significantly exceed their best previous ideas.
Pattern Extrapolation
Continue in the direction & pattern of the breakthrough to flush out additional gains
Pattern Extrapolation
Extend the essence of the new insight or breakthrough solution beyond your comfort level - looking for further implications & ramifications to capitalise on the Drîm momentum gained.
The Repeating Pattern Phenomenon implies that any discovery or advance will apply throughout the situation.
Extrapolation is delibertaely looking for other applications, so that they don't need to be discovered or invented independently.
RET (Reverse-Engineering Technique)
Use the power of reverse-engineering to streamline and guarantee outcomes.
RET (Reverse-Engineering Technique)
Reverse-Engineering (working backwards from instead of forwards to) the ultimate state sought) offers a number unique of advantages.
- It enables us to ensure that we haven't missed any essential elements out.
- It enables to exclude the superfluous.
- It enables us to figure out demanding and complex challenges.
We don't need to abandon Forward Engineering - merely supplement it with RET.
Conflict Resolver
Resolve dilemmas, conflicts and contradictions through breakthrough rather than compromise in a deliberate, systematic and reliable way.
Conflict Resolver
There are extremely few conflicts that can't be resolved beneficially to both drivers.
Instead of seeking the best Compromise between Conflicting options, identify and validate the drivers behind those Options and break (rather than find the best Compromise to) the Conflict, by looking for ways in which each driver can be advantaged rather than disadvantaged by the satisfaction of the other.
It's even easier if you have a set of standard breakthrough resolution options to choose from.
Prerequisites Technique
A way of guaranteeing outcomes efficiently and effectively.
Prerequisites Technique
Our natural tendency is to think and engineer forwards, getting started as soon as possible to ensure the earliest possible completion. The problem with this is that we risk focusing on things that turn out to be superfluous and missing things that turn out to be crucial.
Surfacing comprehensive sets of successive prerequisites to the ultimate objective enables us to ensure sufficiency while minimising superfluity.
It will do us well to adapt the plan for natural progression forwards as well!
NextGen Solution
A way of stimulating and accelerating individual and collective ingenuity and innovation
NextGen Solution
Bring the future forward by imagining what the next version of a solution, process, product, or service would look like.
Prompting oneself to look beyond the current hill-top not only prepares us for what's to come, but brings us to introduce key elements of the next generation solution into the current one - especially if those elements end up being simpler and quicker and easier to develop than the currently envisaged ones.
Vicious Cycle Reverser
A simple technique for reversing vicious cycles in challenging (dynamically complex) situations.
Vicious Cycle Reverser
Some of the most significant contributors to our current reality and the challenges it presents us with are vicious cycles: short-term actions that we have taken in the past that compound rather than overcome the problem and make it increasingly difficult to escape.
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The Vicious Cycle reverser is a simple model for deconstructing and consequently reversing the Vicious Cycle, converting it into a Virtuous Cycle.
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Membership Site
Prodsol Website Membership
We're committed to sharing and disseminating our discoveries, insights and solutions - by providing online access to them to free and paid subscribers.
Prodsol Website Membership
This section of site explains what site membership offers you and gives advice on how to decide what offer is best for you.
Membership gives you access to a growing library of solutions (100 or so of which have been captured in flashcard form already) and the opportunity to discuss, collaborate and influence the Drim Movement and get priority access to the latest solutions and thinking.\
I think that every person who's seeking to make a bigger impact on their world should subscribe - but I would think that, wouldn't I!
What You Get
The value for money of a Prodsol Membership is huge!(and there are even discounted and free plans.)
What You Get
- Access to the drim content on this site - at the level that suits you.
- Subscription to a Drim Early Adopter Newsletter.
- Discounts on services = monthly subscription.
- Online Discussion Forum access: peer support.
- Prodsol participation in the Discussion Forums.
- Influence over development priorities.
- Our commitment to enhancing the site so that equips you to drim your world.
The Early Adopter Advantage
Early adopters are rewarded with access to all domains at single domain pricing - and significant influence over new solution and feature development.
The Early Adopter Advantage
Early adopters are rewarded with :
- Acess to all domains at single domain pricing.
- Higher levels of direct Forum Support (as number of members will be very low to start).
- Significant influence over new solution and feature development.
- The opportunity to start the drim journey early.
See the Notes at the bottom of this page for some notes
Early Adopter Membership Plans
Early Adopter: Interested (FREE)
The ideal plan if you're interested in Drim but don't face many challenges or opportunities.
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Early Adopter Committed
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Notes
Our Objective
This membership site serves a number of purposes:
- Provides affordable access to the Drim Framework and our drim discoveries, insights and solutions - for individuals and organisations alike.
- Enables us to improve the speed and impact of our On-Site Services (Drim Workshops, Consulting and Project Services) dramatically - because all staff members have online and mobile access to the solution library and public and private member discussion forums.
- Enables us to disseminate our discoveries and solutions worldwide.
- Will enable us, over time, to start a self-funding Drim Movement, in partnership with our members.
Our Approach
- The current version of the site is a minimum viable product: (i.e. It has the smallest set of features and content to make it a viable thing to subscribe to: the result of many painful decisions!).
- We'll be enhancing both content and features fairly rapidly into the future - and would value your feedback and contributions immensely.
- We'll release content updates at least weekly for Totally Committed Plans and at progressively lower frequencies for the other plans.
- Feature releases will depend on the nature of the feature and how much development resource we have available.
- We're keen to collaborate and partner with our members and other partners who share our vision of a smarter civilisation.
Our Plans
- We'll roll-out more solutions and insights and more detail on each of them and how to apply and implement them, over time.
- We'll roll out different application domains - over time (see the Drim Solutions section for the next level we have planned).
- We'll roll out different content-types, media-types and functionality over time.
- Although pricing will always be affordable, the above enhancements will result in new Membership Plans that target specific users within specific domains and sub-domains. The pricing for whole site access will increase proportionately as these elements are added. (So subscribing to the top-tier annual plans is a very good investment!)
- We'll partner with other solution and content providers. Contact us to register your interest. The list of interested parties is growing rapidly.
- We'll roll-out Group Plans for organisations who want private discussion and tailored content, in due course.
- And that's just the ongoing plan: we have even bigger things in store for you!
Pricing
Principles
- Every Membership Plan (including the free Interested in Drim Plan) will enable people to get real and tangible dramatic improvement.
- Totally Committed Plans are priced for affordability: we expect - and are committed to ensuring - that real value secured from memberships will be many times greater than the time and dollar cost of membership.
- The different Membership Plan Levels allow us to discount pricing even further for affordability.
- Premium Plans will be priced for affordability to remove cost as an issue.
- Other plans are discounted for affordability, with reduced content, features, influence and discounts on other services to match.
- Real value at every price point.
- In general, pricing will increase, over time, on Premium plans, as content and feature value increases.
- We will keep prices the same for existing users.
- New content and features will trickle down from premium plans, over time.
Early Adopter Pricing
- Early adopters are being rewarded with single domain pricing for access to multiple domains.
- Within the first month of launch Personal, Employee and Manager Domains will be published and we expect pricing for each of these domains to be the same as Early Adopter Pricing for all domains.
- Early Adopters will automatically be granted access to the new domains without a price-change for at least 6 months from sign-up.
- So what you get at the start is will cost a lot more for later aadopters - and the ongoing enhancements will be significant at the start.
- If we find that we got the pricing wrong and need to reduce pricing on your current plan (highly unlikely, given the low price point), your account will be credited appropriately.
- We'll provide reasonable price protection for active plans: i.e. If you sign up now, we won't increase your plan price as soon as new plans are introduced. (Annual Plan members will obviously not have to pay any more during their first year, but we'll think of something to reward their early adoption appropriately in the next year and possibly even, beyond then.)
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