Isaac Newton, the English Physicist (1643 - 1727), demonstrated that colour is a quality or characteristic of light.* In the light spectrum there are only three colours - Green, Red and Blue which when mixed in differing proportions produce almost all other colours.
This is in the light spectrum - not to be confused with paint.
The Model of Mind above, is our fundamental image of the three driving forces of how we think. It is also our logo for Effective Intelligence. It draws upon the significance of the three colours of light, Green, Red and Blue. If you have followed our Blogs or our CEO’s Linkedin posts†, you will be familiar with their symbolism: Green for ’Realising what is New’, Red for ‘Describing what is True’ and Blue for ‘Judging what is Right’. These three are the core directions for thought which work together within the totality of how we think.
A special peculiarity of light is that, depending upon the way a physicist chooses to examine it or look at it, it will respond to that choice as either a wave or a particle.‡
As with light, how we ‘look’ with our minds, from a Green, Red or Blue standpoint, determines what we see and understand. Isn’t this also a parallel with our relationships with one another?
How we see each other, and how we understand ourselves, changes according to the position from which we are looking.
In each stage of life we transition from one role to another. We accept that according to any role we play we can see ourself, and be seen, as a different person. Consider for example a policeman at work managing a crowd, compared with his at-home role as father of three children under five.
As a child you look up to your parents - their understanding of life gives you yours. Their views are your views.
As a teenager you grow an independence of thought. You see things your parents do not see and you wonder about them. With unfettered access to the whole wide world via the internet, your opportunities to think your own thoughts are unlimited.
When earning your living as an adult, entirely responsible for your own viability in the world with a job, friends, a lover, your understanding of yourself develops, perhaps through a broken heart or a joyful marriage. The birth of your first child probably causes the most profound change you can ever undergo? You have total responsibility for another life completely dependent on you.
At work, a promotion or change of job causes you to develop your skills, attitudes and sense of who you are. Managing others for the first time has almost as powerful an effect on how you understand yourself as having your first child. It is a new kind of responsibility for the lives of those you lead.
Other roles also change your perspective: Godparent, aunt or uncle, grandparent - even great-grandparent.
Your Mind is yours. Whomever you are relating to, your mind is yours to govern. Whether a relationship is steady, blossoming, or disintegrating, you can use the unique power of your own mind, to steer, direct and manage ‘how you think’ and ‘what you think’… both.
This is not easy under stress. It cannot be done without effort and determination to lift your thinking from what is not working to what could work. If anyone reading this is right now going through a difficult time, may I encourage you not to give up. Two steps forward, one step back: there is LIGHT at the end of the tunnel.
* www.britannica.com/science/color/The-visible-spectrum
“Newton demonstrated that colour is a quality of light.”
“The three additive primary colours are red, green, and blue; this means that, by additively mixing the colours red, green, and blue in varying amounts, almost all other colours can be produced, and, when the three primaries are added together in equal amounts, white is produced.”
† www.linkedin.com/in/jay-canning
‡ theconversation.com/curious-kids-is-light-a-wave-or-a-particle
