![]() ![]() Would this shape the way that you felt? We believe it would.Īt the other extreme, of course, you might have a more glass half empty, pessimistic pattern of thinking. So, at one extreme you may have a predominantly optimistic way of thinking. So, what drives your feelings? Well, using ‘The Iceberg Model of Consciousness’ we would argue that it’s probably your thoughts or thinking patterns. If you are feeling ‘down’, do you think it might just show in your behaviour? Oh yes! These obviously affect what you do and can change very quickly depending on the circumstances you find yourself in. Just below the waterline lie your immediate, minute-by-minute feelings. The drivers or roots of your behaviour lurk unseen below the waterline. If you like, this is the ‘external’ you that is visible to everybody else. The 10% of the iceberg that is above the waterline is your behaviour what you do and say – and how you do and say it. The deeper drivers of our behaviours – the other 90% – lie submerged in our subconscious or unconscious mind. The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. Freud contested that our conscious behaviour is only the visible 10% of our psyche – the tip of the iceberg if you like. Iceberg Model of ConsciousnessĪpparently, the idea of the iceberg model comes from Sigmund Freud‘s Iceberg Model of Consciousness. Have YOU ever done something and thought how stupid or crazy you were for doing it? Well, whatever they or you did, the behaviour that was exhibited had roots. ![]() Have you ever seen anyone do something that in your opinion was crazy or stupid and thought to yourself “Why on earth did that do that?” Of course, you have we all have!īut, consider this. We also love how it explains in fairly simple terms the complexity of human behaviour. We have used Ron’s Iceberg in our training for over 20 years now and delegates have loved it because, we believe, it really helps to understand people better. We call the model ‘Ron’s Iceberg’ because it uses the analogy of an iceberg to explain the roots of a person’s behaviour and the guy who told us about it many years ago was a guy called Ron! Well, it got me thinking about a model called ‘The Iceberg Model of Consciousness’ that my colleagues at Eagle Training and I use in many of our leadership and management programmes to explain why people do the things they do. Recently I wrote a weekly tip about the rise of the ‘ Covidiot‘ and posed the question of why some people can do such bad, negative, anti-social (insert your own adjective here) things. ![]()
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