Glen - > I suppose the fault is mine for not *emphasizing* the inspiration for my use > of the term. Here it is again if anyone might care. > > https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wJutA2czyFg6HbYoW/what-are-trigger-action-plans-taps, >> trigger - The simple, specific sight/sound/smell/thought/feeling/etc. which >> you hook a behaviour onto.
Thanks for *re*emphasizing this. It helps me catch up on your specific use of terminology and/but illuminates the question of your earlier suggestion of *installing more triggers*. As already stated, I tend to interpret the term "trigger" as what they call a trigger-action. It is the *action* that I usually experience (a strong emotional response from others, or my own internal emotional response, not always evidenced to others clearly). I recognized (during the course of this discussion) that one of my "triggers" is the use of pop-psych (my judgement) terms like "triggers". When you suggested *installing more* all I could think was "there are already TOO MANY Trigger-Actions in this world, whyTF would you want to pollute the social sphere with *yet more*????" But after reading this article more thoroughly and reflecting on my understanding of your nature as well as reflecting on my own navigation of the social landscape I have co-created with those around me, I see the potential value/point of this TAP business. As a conflict-avoider, I learned to internalize the Action part of Trigger-Action quite a bit early on. While this has some short-term value, it has some long-term costs. Had I recognized my own triggers more overtly and consciously changed my associated actions, my life might have been more fulfilling. In particular I wouldn't have wasted so much of my own energy/volition/agency dancing through the landscape *avoiding* everyone else's triggers (to varying degrees of success). I had a friend with a brain injury who struggled even 25 years later (and lots of therapy including ECGs) to keep on task and not get flummoxed by various order-of-event sequencing in his plans. With your TAP reference, I now realize that he coped with that by building TA chains to get through complex operations that you and I might handle intuitively. I was often frustrated by the granularity of these chains, and when working with him would effectively disrupt his "sequencing" by skipping a step or doing them out of order. - Steve ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
