Cognitive Influence
I created Modes because I believe that everyone deserves to know how their own thinking works. Understanding our thinking is the basis of cognitive influence - the practice of applying self-awareness to tangible performance outcomes.
My interest in this started with a problem of my own. I was often perceived incorrectly, and for a long time I didn't know why it kept happening. What I came to understand is that the more we know about our own thinking, and about the thinking of the people around us, the more we can close the gap between what we intend and how we are perceived.
When we bring that awareness into how we communicate, people receive us more accurately, and more often than not, more favorably. Those perceptions decide a great deal - who gets trusted, who gets the opportunity. Understanding cognition is where the highest performance starts, at work and everywhere else.
Cognitive influence is the practice of that. It isn't charisma and it isn't presentation. It's knowing how your thinking is shaping the way you put something, and whether that way of putting it is reaching the person you're speaking to - or only satisfying you.
Practiced over time, it widens what becomes available to you. Not because you've changed what you're capable of, but because more of it is now visible to other people.
Most people are working with a version of themselves that others can't accurately read.
That is a solvable problem.
Gregor