Here is a simplified model of human psychology for you to learn from…
Human Behavior (Internal & External) directly obeys the mind’s present total balance of Human Motivation.
Human Motivation consists of the root forces of Pain & Pleasure associated with any given thoughts running though a person’s sub/conscious mind at any given point in time (always fluctuating).
Pain & Pleasure are associated to all different thoughts to varying degrees, based on the Personal Meaning one presently sub/consciously attaches to thoughts.
Personal Meaning is affected by one’s current State of Mind, which often includes influence from one’s long-term Mental Blueprint of beliefs & conditioning.
State of Mind consists of everything making up the total state of one’s mental environment at any given moment in time, including sub/conscious thoughts, emotions, & filters of meaning. An alternative name that can be used for this is Mindset.
Mental Blueprint is a part of one’s State of Mind, which consists of long-term components that persist in a similar state beyond the current scenario a person & their mind is in, such as long-term beliefs & emotional conditioning.
We are pain/pleasure machines where that Pain & Pleasure is variably determined based on our own custom Personal Meaning.
Human Motivation is fixed to always be determined to Avoid Pain & Gain Pleasure with all Human Behavior (Internal & External).
This is a philosophy of mind which falls within the school of thought known as Psychological Hedonism.
Human Nature consists of the fundamental consistent patterns throughout humanity, of these components, that can trace all the way up & down the systematic chain, from our Human Behavior all the way down to State of Mind.
I’ve had most of this model of psychology established for several years now and have been using it to explain all thoughts, words, feelings, & actions I observe from myself and others quite successfully. I can now read human subconscious well too.
And the understanding of this model is a killer tool to use for ultra strategic personal development & achievement.
FYI… When I talk about the different levels of depth for my simplified models of human psychology, I often label them like this…
- Pain/Pleasure (P/P)
- Pain/Pleasure/Meaning (P/P/M)
- Pain/Pleasure/Meaning/Mechanics (P/P/M/M)
This post primarily explains some simplified details of my P/P/M psychology model.
The P/P/M/M model throws the complexities of physical brain mechanics in to this.
I hope this gives you more valuable insight into the workings of the mind. Most of our surface level behavior & experience of life is largely driven by the subconscious. However, we can become more aware of our subconscious mind and work to influence it to more effectively operate ourselves & increase our quality of life.
PS: Also, another bonus distinction about the mind, based on the brain, is that it is a real-time machine. Just like how a computer can only process the current bits of code flowing through it right there & then, human psychology is the same way. This is simply how matter works, where the brain is matter and can only process whatever is flowing through the system at any given time. So, while our minds can process thoughts & feelings about the past & future, it can’t reach out into the past or future to directly deal with it, as some people unconsciously trick themselves into assuming when in highly emotional states. That’s not real. Instead, everything you ever think or feel in your mind is really just the result of the current processing being done by your brain within that nanosecond. The past is gone & the future is unknown. You’re mind is a “real-time” machine, but not a “time machine”. 
Brian,
Awesome job, it’s cool to see all these parts in a graph like that. One thing I don’t get is how you can read the subconscious? That’s a bold statement my morally twisted little friend, you better have a good answer…
@Namaste…
Thanks!! While it is a simplified model, it is still pretty conceptually elegant relative to true psychological complexity, while remaining intellectually accessible.
It sure does take a lot of twisting to get one’s morals properly aligned with what’s right.
Yes, I have built a real solid expertise & talent for reading subconscious psychology, especially in real-time, even compared to psychology pros.
That said, the subconscious is tangibly hidden, so it is not like seeing or hearing one’s conscious mind in written or spoken form.
Also, it is not a perfect systematic capability. It is like being an expert at generating profits in business. No matter how good you are at it, you are right about some bets & wrong about others, but consistently net a positive financial gain overall.
The same is true for one’s capability to “read” the subconscious. What I’m really doing is inferring what the subconscious is doing when I analyze the thoughts, feelings, decisions, behavior of people. So I breakdown the micro internal components of any general activity like these things, and I then infer at each step what the general probability might be for what is subconsciously driving or enabling that component. There might be multiple reasonable answers to that for each component, so at each step, I might say it could be A, B, or C dynamic going on, and give them each a percentage of odds assessment like X%, Y%, Z%, but I don’t get specific with numbers when thinking on the fly, just low-medium-high odds assessments.
A more obvious general example of this would be…
Say I hear a person’s voice consistently crack when they are speaking to others. The subconscious meaning I infer out of this might be that they are sad about what they are saying, nervous about speaking, nervous about what they are specifically saying, etc, if I didn’t think it was purely physical such as having a cold. And then I’d be looking to analyze all of the subtleties during & around this behavior. If the person’s voice cracks when they consistently talk about a specific thing, their face turns red as well, and they otherwise seemed confident during everything else, my assessment of odds would go up for it being an issue of social nervousness (fear of rejection) associated in their subconscious for that specific issue. The surface level behavior, information, & context are the leads into dissecting & inferring what’s going on behind it, and assessing the reasonable possibilities and putting odds on them as more assessment is done.
I’ve gotten good at continuously taking multiple micro observations in a string of human behavior or internal feelings of myself, where the resolution of my awareness & ability to consistently infer subconscious meaning has tightened to fractions of a second now. Where I could take a 3 second snapshot in my mind of my observation of a person, and potentially assess the subconscious psychology based on changes of states I observed across fractions of those seconds. I have a fast mind though that can handle a lot of variables at once, which is the very same capability I leverage with my strategy skill that you’re aware of. Also, over the years, after gaining more understanding & identifying more patterns, I need less & less information to make accurate assessments & credibly infer the subconscious psychology going on. Usually my assessment is that it could be 1 of X things going on and give a general odds assessment of those. I can be much more thorough with analyzing my own mind or with somebody I can ask a ton of questions to and observe them over time.
Everybody does this type of thing to some general degree when they analyze the behavior of people. Our intuition is one of our best tools for picking this stuff up within ourselves & others. I’ve gotten good at putting sound psychological reason to that intuition though. However, the difference is that I’m consciously & strategically doing it and have worked to develop it into a sophisticated skill. It takes a lot of observation, introspection, practice, understanding of psychology, and general personal obsession to go this far with it though.
I’m just a crazed intellectual sicko like that.
@Brian Watkins…
Brian,
If you were anyone else, I’d say, “Be super damn careful that you aren’t adding meaning to meaningless facial expressions/words (assuming can get you into a lot of trouble). However, in your case you are looking at it with the assumption that you could be wrong, it’s just your best guess (most don’t do that and assume they are right). So I get it. Cool!
@Namaste…
Totally! That is so much of the game… Knowing that it is just estimates of probability and being aware of human error. Knowing that it is not a direct observation of true reality. However, overall, a good portion of the time it can produce real solid insights as to what really is likely going on. However, to confuse it with direct observation of reality, like visually reading black & white print, would be foolish.
Still, it is an awesome & extremely powerful skill. Glad you get it!