Mindex: IntroductionThe Mindex Model & Thinking Style Profile

© Karl Albrecht International

Introduction and Overview

What is Mindex?Mindex is a model that helps us

understand minds - our own and others’.

What’s a Thinking Style?

It’s your preferred wayof processing information

Logical? Intuitive?

Visual?Auditory?

Conceptual?

Each brain isa uniquebiocomputer

Each of us grows upto become a uniquehuman being

What Do We Know About Minds?

With our own uniqueway of thinking . . .

We All Have Our Own Waysof Looking at Things

Our Brains Are Running on “Autopilot”Most of the Time

We All Have “Thought Processors”in Our Brains

Our Past ExperienceDistorts our Perception

“Lenses”

We Accept or RejectIdeas Based on WhatWe Already Believe

“Filters”

Our Assumptions,Beliefs, Conclusions,& Decisions Control

our Learning

“Templates”

. . . are often just differences in the wayspeople arrange the “furniture” in their heads

Personality Conflicts

Can Cognitive NeuroscienceHelp Us Understand the Way We

Think?

Cognitive neuroscience is the study of how and why

people think and behave the way they do.

The Original Brain Research?

Amazing Findingsfrom Modern Brain

Research CalTech, 1960s: “Split-brain” surgery

Dr. Joseph Bogen, Prof. Roger Sperry et al.

Bogen surgically separated the left & rightcerebral hemispheres of epilepsy patients These “split-brain” people were studied bypsychologists Conclusion: the left & right hemisphereswork like two separate, complete,& different computers

Each of Us Has Two “Computers”in our Head (the Cerebral

Hemispheres)Your Left Hemisphere

is a “Digital” Computer

It handles facts & figures, words, numbers,timing, sequences, procedures, logic, rules.

It handles patterns, images, colors, sensations,spatial perception, sound, rhythms, intuition,hunches, interpreting emotions.

Your Right Hemisphereis an “Analog” Computer

Your Thinking Style

Listen Learn React Remember Organize thoughts

Solve problems Decide

Form opinions

Plan Express ideas

Is the Unique Way You:

Some people are more “left-brained,”or analytical, in the way they think.

The Mindex Model refers to themas “Blue” thinkers.

Others are more “right-brained,”or intuitive.

The Mindex Model refers to themas “Red” thinkers.

Left-brain vs. Right-brain Preference

Some people focus mostly onconcrete (sensory) experience.

The Mindex Model refers to themas “Earth” thinkers.

Others prefer to think aboutabstract concepts and “theories.”

The Mindex Model refers to themas “Sky” thinkers.

Concrete vs. Abstract Preference

Combining the Two Key Dimensions of Thought,We Get Four Basic Thinking Modes:

Left-Brain vs. Right-Brain

Abstract vs.Concrete

These thinking patterns are called “cognitive archetypes”

It’s a bit like havingfour “software windows”in your mind

The Mindex ProfileReveals Your Preferred Thinking Style.

Print Version Online Version

Where Did Mindex Come From?

From the Mind of Dr. Karl AlbrechtExecutive Advisor, Author, Researcher, Futurist,

Speaker.He Developed Mindex in 1983.

The Mindex ModelGives Memorable Names to the Four Styles

AbstractConcepts

ConcreteExperience

Left Brained Right Brained

You can estimate the Mindex styles of people you meetby noticing various cues:

A New Way to “Read” People

Facts vs. feelings? Details? Train of thought?

Reference to processes, procedures Eye movement, gestures

Use of language; figures of speech

Right Brained and Concrete

“Here and Now” Direct Experience Uses Intuition and

Hunches Oriented to Feelings and

“Vibrations”

Red Earth Thinkers

Blue Earth Thinkers

Left Brained and Concrete Focus: the “Bottom Line” Facts and Figures Uses Linear / Procedural

Thinking Oriented to Logical

Outcomes

Right Brained and Abstract Focus: the “Big Picture” Dreams and Visions Uses Hypothetical /Projective Thinking Oriented to Possibilities

Red Sky Thinkers

Left Brained and Abstract Focus: “The System” Diagrams and Relationships Uses Systematic Thinking Oriented to Structure &

Order

Blue Sky Thinkers

Each Person has a”Home Base” Thinking PatternBlue Sky

Blue Earth Red Earth

Red Sky

How Do You See Yourself?

Are You Trying to“Put Me in a Box?”

Mindex Validates Your Rightto Be Who You Are

No “best” thinking style

NeuroPlasticity: we can keep learning & growing NeuroDiversity: many kinds of “normal” Multiple Intelligences: many ways to be

smart

Can a Half-Day SeminarChange the Culture of

the Organization?

Maybe . . .

“Wall to wall” training with the Mindex Profilecan empower everyone to think more clearly

and communicate more effectively.

Are You “Getting Through” to Others?

Managing Minds: Dialogue

Managing Minds: TeamworkAre You Leading Effectively?

Are You ReachingAll the Minds in the Room?

Managing Minds: Presenting Ideas

Managing Minds: Organizational IntelligenceAre You Using All the Available Brain

Power?

Dr. Karl Albrecht

How Does Mindex Compare to the

Myers-Briggs “Type Indicator” (MBTI)?

Mindex is simpler, and easier to understand, explain, recall, and apply.They Measure the Same Thing: Cognitive Preference

= NT NF

ST SF

Who Uses Mindex?

ConsultingFirms

Your LogoHere?

AMA JapanAMA Korea

“Who can say whichwill be more importantin the end – landing onthe moon, orunderstanding thehuman mind?”

- Tenzin Gyatso14th Dalai Lama

To Know More About Mindex

http://www.KarlAlbrecht.com