How does a Performer Flow?

John D. HipsleySunnyvale, CA

May 11,2014

PERFORMANCE

REPUTATION

INFLUENCE

CAPABILITY

Organizing 4 variables in a series (single path) linear progression

TIME

TALENT

Alternative way to organize the 4 variables as parallel pairs of ideas

IVPERFORMANCE

IREPUTATION

IIINFLUENCE

IIICAPABILITY

Variables are forces that interact internally and transform external circumstances

IVPERFORMANCE

IREPUTATION

IIINFLUENCE

IIICAPABILITY

IIIPERFORMANCE

Mask

IREPUTATION

Map

IIINFLUENCE

Magnet

IVCAPABILITY

Mystery

Images can help to explain and simplify complex interacting variables

IVPERFORMANCE

‘Masks’ the public face we present to the

world

IREPUTATION“Maps” and pinpoints our

position relative to others

IIINFLUENCE

Measures our ‘Magnetic’ appeal and alienation

IIICAPABILITY

Is our potential and thus the

great ‘Mystery’ of human

nature

Define the meaning of variables and corresponding images in a model

IVPERFORMANCE

Mask Who?

IREPUTATION

Map Where?

IIINFLUENCE

MagnetHow much?

IIICAPABILITY

MysteryWhen?

Drawing a correspondence between the 4 images and the 6 x 6 Rule

IREPUTATIONPUBLIC SELF

(Known to me and to others)

IIINFLUENCE

HIDDEN SELF(Known to others

but not to me)

IIIPERFORMANCE

PRIVATE SELF(Known to me only)

IVCAPABILITY

UNKNOWN SELF(Not known to me

or anybody else)

Incorporate the variables in a model of self awareness to provide insights

Johari Window is a Tool for Self Awareness

IVPERFORMANCE

Mask Who?

IREPUTATION

Map Where?

IIINFLUENCE

MagnetHow much?

IIICAPABILITY

MysteryWhen?

Asking “how” of the performer reveals an insight into the mystery of capability

5How does a performer

flow?

Frame a performer’s ‘capability’ as a flow: How does a performer flow?

PERFORMANCE

MASK (to conceal identity)

Who?

REPUTATION

MAP(to pin point)

Where?

INFLUENCE

MAGNET(to attract and repulse)

How much?

CAPABILITY

MYSTERY(to be revealed)

When?

Combine ideas, images and variables to answer: How does a performer flow?

Flow Equation: Performance + Reputation + Influence + Capability = Ease

Performance

Reputation

Influence

Capability

Ease

Performance

Reputation

Influence

Capability

Why easy? Because a person knows the P.R.I.C.E. to be paid

Ease