2. PEOPLE RESPOND ACCORDING TO THEIR “MAPS”

The human mind has a very special capability.  It can give meaning to things.  As we grow up in the world we experience things and give meaning to them.  Michael Jordan gave a different meaning to getting kicked off his high school basketball team than other people in a similar situation did.  So, not only does our mind body system make it’s own interpretation of what’s really out there, but then we interpret it again by creating our own individual meanings for things.  From these interpreted meanings we create our own maps. We move through the world and respond using these maps we create based on the meanings we have given to various experiences.  Michael Jordan’s map didn’t label getting kicked off the basketball team as “failure” he mapped a different meaning to it.  Look where he is today.