| One thing I'd like to add
about ladder of inference is to use the cognitive functions (Jung), which
I've been teaching lately, which allows us to "tie in" the way we
function to the ladder, so that rather than becoming generic it is
individually customized. Here's how to do it:
[View
Ladder here]
1. See/feel/etc. the ladder as beginning with an event: or real
data
2. See the next step as how we perceive: i.e. are we intuitive or
sensing, if intuitive, we may perceive from a pattern or pick up
pattern data, if we are sensing, we perceive through our senses, we
may pick up our direct experience, etc.
3. Next see how we process that information we've perceived
(selected), are we a thinker or a feeler, do we logically form a
progression, or see a relationship between values.
4. Notice the conclusion we draw. Using the process above we can
see how we're likely to draw the conclusion.
Note: If we're Extraverted, we show or share the process, if Introverted
we may express outloud the conclusion without ever sharing or showing externally
the process. This is important in the ladder of inference...it's kind
of like making a ladder of inference on steriods!
Of course, then we form "assumptions about how the world works"
from our ladder of inference and then create beliefs and well those
form attitudes and those behavior then we start all over again.
Hope that helps!
All,
Thanks to Heidi Katz for sharing this website regarding the Ladder
of Inference. For those not on Tuesday night's call, the ladder was
discussed as a model for types of listening.
http://www.outsights.com/systems/loi/loi.htm |
