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Mindex is a self-scoring self-assessment questionnaire, in the form of a self-contained educational booklet, that enables people to understand the way they and others process information.
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Mindex: IntroductionThe Mindex Model & Thinking Style Profile
© Karl Albrecht International
Introduction and Overview
What is Mindex?Mindex is a model that helps us
understand minds - our own and others’.
What’s a Thinking Style?
It’s your preferred wayof processing information
Logical? Intuitive?
Visual?Auditory?
Conceptual?
Each brain isa uniquebiocomputer
Each of us grows upto become a uniquehuman being
What Do We Know About Minds?
With our own uniqueway of thinking . . .
We All Have Our Own Waysof Looking at Things
Our Brains Are Running on “Autopilot”Most of the Time
We All Have “Thought Processors”in Our Brains
Our Past ExperienceDistorts our Perception
“Lenses”
We Accept or RejectIdeas Based on WhatWe Already Believe
“Filters”
Our Assumptions,Beliefs, Conclusions,& Decisions Control
our Learning
“Templates”
. . . are often just differences in the wayspeople arrange the “furniture” in their heads
Personality Conflicts
Can Cognitive NeuroscienceHelp Us Understand the Way We
Think?
Cognitive neuroscience is the study of how and why
people think and behave the way they do.
The Original Brain Research?
Amazing Findingsfrom Modern Brain
Research CalTech, 1960s: “Split-brain” surgery
Dr. Joseph Bogen, Prof. Roger Sperry et al.
Bogen surgically separated the left & rightcerebral hemispheres of epilepsy patients These “split-brain” people were studied bypsychologists Conclusion: the left & right hemisphereswork like two separate, complete,& different computers
Each of Us Has Two “Computers”in our Head (the Cerebral
Hemispheres)Your Left Hemisphere
is a “Digital” Computer
It handles facts & figures, words, numbers,timing, sequences, procedures, logic, rules.
It handles patterns, images, colors, sensations,spatial perception, sound, rhythms, intuition,hunches, interpreting emotions.
Your Right Hemisphereis an “Analog” Computer
Your Thinking Style
Listen Learn React Remember Organize thoughts
Solve problems Decide
Form opinions
Plan Express ideas
Is the Unique Way You:
Some people are more “left-brained,”or analytical, in the way they think.
The Mindex Model refers to themas “Blue” thinkers.
Others are more “right-brained,”or intuitive.
The Mindex Model refers to themas “Red” thinkers.
Left-brain vs. Right-brain Preference
Some people focus mostly onconcrete (sensory) experience.
The Mindex Model refers to themas “Earth” thinkers.
Others prefer to think aboutabstract concepts and “theories.”
The Mindex Model refers to themas “Sky” thinkers.
Concrete vs. Abstract Preference
Combining the Two Key Dimensions of Thought,We Get Four Basic Thinking Modes:
Left-Brain vs. Right-Brain
Abstract vs.Concrete
These thinking patterns are called “cognitive archetypes”
It’s a bit like havingfour “software windows”in your mind
The Mindex ProfileReveals Your Preferred Thinking Style.
Print Version Online Version
Where Did Mindex Come From?
From the Mind of Dr. Karl AlbrechtExecutive Advisor, Author, Researcher, Futurist,
Speaker.He Developed Mindex in 1983.
The Mindex ModelGives Memorable Names to the Four Styles
AbstractConcepts
ConcreteExperience
Left Brained Right Brained
You can estimate the Mindex styles of people you meetby noticing various cues:
A New Way to “Read” People
Facts vs. feelings? Details? Train of thought?
Reference to processes, procedures Eye movement, gestures
Use of language; figures of speech
Right Brained and Concrete
“Here and Now” Direct Experience Uses Intuition and
Hunches Oriented to Feelings and
“Vibrations”
Red Earth Thinkers
Blue Earth Thinkers
Left Brained and Concrete Focus: the “Bottom Line” Facts and Figures Uses Linear / Procedural
Thinking Oriented to Logical
Outcomes
Right Brained and Abstract Focus: the “Big Picture” Dreams and Visions Uses Hypothetical /Projective Thinking Oriented to Possibilities
Red Sky Thinkers
Left Brained and Abstract Focus: “The System” Diagrams and Relationships Uses Systematic Thinking Oriented to Structure &
Order
Blue Sky Thinkers
Each Person has a”Home Base” Thinking PatternBlue Sky
Blue Earth Red Earth
Red Sky
How Do You See Yourself?
Are You Trying to“Put Me in a Box?”
Mindex Validates Your Rightto Be Who You Are
No “best” thinking style
NeuroPlasticity: we can keep learning & growing NeuroDiversity: many kinds of “normal” Multiple Intelligences: many ways to be
smart
Can a Half-Day SeminarChange the Culture of
the Organization?
Maybe . . .
“Wall to wall” training with the Mindex Profilecan empower everyone to think more clearly
and communicate more effectively.
Are You “Getting Through” to Others?
Managing Minds: Dialogue
Managing Minds: TeamworkAre You Leading Effectively?
Are You ReachingAll the Minds in the Room?
Managing Minds: Presenting Ideas
Managing Minds: Organizational IntelligenceAre You Using All the Available Brain
Power?
Dr. Karl Albrecht
How Does Mindex Compare to the
Myers-Briggs “Type Indicator” (MBTI)?
Mindex is simpler, and easier to understand, explain, recall, and apply.They Measure the Same Thing: Cognitive Preference
= NT NF
ST SF
Who Uses Mindex?
ConsultingFirms
Your LogoHere?
AMA JapanAMA Korea
“Who can say whichwill be more importantin the end – landing onthe moon, orunderstanding thehuman mind?”
- Tenzin Gyatso14th Dalai Lama