The Two Systems Model

When learning how to improve our social skills or engage with the environment in general, it's important to develop an outline that enhances our ability to supplement growth and fully capitalize our human potential.

We have two systems that when functioning together in unison can maximize one's ability to engage with the environment. These two systems that we mean to come to understand are the instinct drive and the experimental/model builder. Another and more accurate way to label them are the unconscious and conscious mind. Both play a crucial role in exploring the social landscape that we inhabit and traversing that landscape with the right sense of direction.

The unconscious mind is the great machine that performs actions, gives variables its emotional weight, archives our past experience and is largely known as instinct. This system performs most bodily and psychological functions without our awareness and for the most part without our consent. The unconscious drive is an ancient program that has only developed and been refined by the harsh evolutionary process of natural selection. To ignore what is unconscious is to be in delusion of what we really are.

The conscious mind on the other hand, is the lens from which we see through. It provides the perspective to specific narratives, establishes the value system that provides structure to our world. It builds the personality and identity attributes we hold that calibrate our means of expression towards a certain direction. Each individual's conscious mind is unique unlike its counterpart. This means that the frame from which we see has the potential to change and will most likely do so from experience both positive and negative.