From Stefan Balke (9604009.1730 CET)
(Rick Marken 960405.1430)
The rubber band demo just lets us show all the
components of controlling very clearly --
components that are not always visible in everyday behavior.
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A little while ago I started a little personal PCT project and as I read the
underlined sentence from Rick´s note, I decided to tell you about it.
It´s simply this: I imagine as continuously as possible a figure ranged from
zero to a few thousands representing the amount of error (stress) I perceive
in the moment right now. At the first view this may sound a little bit
neurotic, but it helps me to make visible at least to me the amount of the
actual error. So I have a clear criterion to make a behavioral shift. I can
now say, I´ll tolerate only figures upto 100. If I perceive figures above
100 I´ll do something against the disturbance. One implication is that I now
learn my own hierachie off stressful events. Normally if nothing
extrordinary happens figures below 20 come to my mind (monitor) but if there
are circumstances like time-pressure, screaming children, unpleasurable
people standing infront of me in the queue, I perceive figures upto 500 -
600 for a short time intervall. It also works if I look at my memory. If I
think about unresolved long time problems I perceive very high figures -
upto 5000. (It must be dynamite.)
This is an attempt to make visible the error, the goal, the perceived
variable, the action which I choose to counteract the disturbance and the
changes in the amount of error. So I perfectly see, whether the action works.
Just try it and tell me whether it makes sense to you and whether it works!
Regards, Stefan
(actual error value 120 ;-))