The unmanaged and limited nature of our personality structure and our personal reactivity or defensiveness causes us stress, conflict, suffering and limitations at work and in relationships. These personality behaviors tend to be repetitive, finite, limited and habitual.
Thus, working with our personal reactivity, and hence our personality, is key to living balanced, meaningful and fulfilling lives.
This includes our identification with our own point of view, as we become trapped in the core beliefs of our type. There is a root basis for our reactivity in the Basic Proposition.
Both are available on Amazon. I worked for years mining for what is at the core of our personality, digging deeper as a miner would looking for gold. Finally I discovered gold at the heart of the mountain that we all try to build to hopefully have a good life, even a golden life. The precious metal I discovered is what I call the Basic Propositions. But what are these? Here is the best definition I can come up with: A Basic Proposition is a statement so fundamental, so core, so demonstrable that it is virtually incontestable.
To me, this is what makes understanding the Basic Proposition for each type so vital, so crucial. Down inside we find our golden center, which is where we get to locate our fundamental adaptive strategy — the fundamental principles we are a slave to that drive what we believe we have to be to ensure us a satisfactory self having a satisfying life.
