What's A driving Personality Makeover?

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• A driving personality makeover, what is it? Well let's take a look at the specific terms. The first one "a driving personality" implies that there is a specific entity called a "driving personality". This can be likened to phone personality, a business personality, or a weekend personality. It's a loose term of description used to describe one's personality functioning in a specific environment. The same way we have different personality functionings (behaviors) for funerals, weddings and the office, we have them for driving as well.

  

• The second term "makeover" implies a change of shift in the given driving personality. The same way a movie actor or actress has a make-over before going on camera. When we put all these terms together, we get a process that is designed to effect changes in the driving habits and actions of individuals. The question is though, why make changes. The logical answer is that there is a probelem that needs to be fixed.

  

• Everyone needs to improve on their driving. They might not admit it, but the fact that there are 50,000 deaths and three million driving related injuries year after year makes the point clear. The best way not to cause an accident is to learn to avoid them until accident avoidance becomes habitual. Like my Dad always tells me, "Good Habits take time and practice everyday, bad ones just creep in over night."

  

• In a driving personality makeover the person doing the makeover self witnesses his or her actions subjectively. This allows the person to dissern the fundamental aspects involved in there driving behavior. This subjectification of the situations which the driver goes through gives the person the ability to recognize the three crucial domains involved. Namely the affective, cognative and sensory-motor. This is a very powerful tool because the identification of the fundamental problem makes it possible for changes to be made the will effectively modify a targeted behavior. The changes implimented from a sujective position such as this don't just mask the targeted behavior , they modify it. Over time the constant modifications to behavior accumilate makeing new modifications more easily implimented. This produces A higher level of exisistance for the person implimenting these changes and brings the into a more harmonius and spiritual state of being. Not to mention all the stress and anger that is avoided.

  

• Another one of the ways in which a driving personality makeover allows us to create changes in our lives is through cognative dissonance. By making us consciously focus on what we're doing wrong, cognitive dissonance provides motivation for bringing our actions in line with what we know to be the right choice. Cognitive dissonance motivates efforts to reduce in consistancy in our thoughts and actions. I also think that a driving personality makeover helps create changes by focusing on individual behavior and thus forces us to deal with Actor-observer bias. Actor-observer bias is our tendency to infer external causes for our own behavior and internal causes for others' behavior.

  

• For more information on driving personality makeovers from the Generational Curriculum check out Aaron Takahashi's , Sondra Blake's , and Denise Tanaka'S reports on their driving personality makeovers or look at my Self witnessing experiment.