We have moved into a Global Sports Economy. When we saw the recent World Cup we saw cultures that had never been revealed to the world. Whether it was the Samba dancer and musicians from Brazil, the pageantry of the Asians or the power and strength of the African natural medicine leaders, we experienced a new world. And this new world showed all of us that there is one world language - the language of soccer, the Beautiful Game.
When we wake up in the morning we see ourselves in the mirror. Most of us look in the mirror at ourselves. Our favorite and most loved image is that of ourselves. We measure everyone else’s looks by our own image, We measure everyone else ideals, dreams, aspiration, religious faith, interest by our selves. Our own self is the most important part of our universe.
When we leave our house, when we interact with others, we look at them as mirrors of our own reflection. The more they look like us, talk like us, walk like us and are like us, the more we enjoy their presence. We are always seeking our selves and when we have an opportunity to form a team, chances are we will seek those like us, or our mind clones to people our teams, our lives, our church life and our world.
What has been the effect of our seeking to find these mind clones of our selves in our daily life? What happens when the only people we can accept as OK must either look like us, talk like us, think like us, follow our same religions, enjoy the same hobbies, work in the same industry or have the philosophy. This problems of seeking those who are in effect clones of ourselves is the reason that we are seeing rising conflicts in our society.
As our society turns into a global sports culture with people immigrating from all over the world, we see more and more people who do not look like us, etc. How are we going to handle this. how are we handling it. I call the process of desiring to have only those around us who are like us, mind cloning. There are a wide variety of mind clone types we are likely to meet in the Sports World.
What has been the effect of our seeking to find clones of our selves in our daily life? What happens when the only people we can accept as OK must either look like us, talk like us, think like us, follow our same religions, enjoy the same hobbies, work in the same industry or have the philosophy. This problems of seeking those who are in effect clones of ourselves is the reason that we are seeing rising conflicts in our society.
As our sports and sport adventure world turns into a Global Sports Economy, with athletes immigrating from all over the world, we see more and more people who do not look like us, etc. How are we going to handle this? How are we handling it? I call the process of desiring to have only those around us who are like us, mind cloning. There are a wide variety of mind clones. Some of them are listed on the Mind Clone page.
What we are facing is a global sports crisis in the making as we are forced without any preparation in our schools, churches, colleges, business and other places where we play with sports and sports adventure tourism. Every day thousands or amateur soccer games are played in vacant lots and schoolyards. But we often see All Mexican teams or all African teams. They simply do not play with each other, deliberately segregating themselves. Yet when the World Cup comes it all disappears.
As youth, college, amateur and professionals athletes travel to places to play, ways to learn to accept difference in the people around us abound. Before we might have played soccer in a single clone society such as an all white town, or a catholic community, or a Muslim country or a certain African Tribal village. We no longer have the luxury of distance between us and those we feel are not like us or do not belong in our world.
Learn the nature of the problem and face up to the fact that we all have our comfort zones. Our comfort zones is the group of people with which we feel most comfortable. Inside this comfort zones, usually consisting either of people who are related to us, who share some deep conviction such as religion, people who are genetically similar, people we have been socialized to believe are those we belong to. That is why the Old Boy Network is still in place because we think that boys belong with men.
When we move outside this area, we become unsure, uncomfortable, unable to know how to act. That’s because we all chose those who are our clones so that we can predict how they will behave with us. Predictability of behavior is vital for us to be comfortable, to feel safe, and to be at ease.
When we interact with people who walk differently, talk differently, look differently, we become aware that they are not us and thus our fear of the stranger or our understanding of how different they are scares us. What will they? How will they react? They are strange, different, maybe they’ll do something really dangerous.
1. Decide you will no longer live only within your comfort zone of playing with the athletes you've always known
2. Deliberately seek out safe places to play soccer and other sports with people who do not serve as your mind clones
3. Take a training program in SAT diversity
The importance of mind cloning - the selection of people like yourself- in other words to try to create an working environment with your clones or those who are identical to you. Each of the type of mind clones is a spectrum of within clone choices.
Let’s call them mind clone spectrums. Usually one of the kinds of mind clones is most important to us, and we use it as a selective filter for controlling the people we allow into our world. You might say we all perch on these mind clone spectrums and maintain our lives according to where we sit on he spectrum.
If for example, we are fixated on the intellectual mind clone spectrum as our controller, we might accept people with five IQ points below our and 5 IQ points above ours. But that’s as far as we want to travel from our own position on the spectrum line. The mind clone spaces we sit on are usually created by childhood programming or by a traumatic or extremely exhilarating event.
Some of us are very narrow in our mind cloning acceptance. For example, a person who is focused on the ethnic mind clone might be willing to accept people only from one ethnic group, For example, a member of the Ku Klux Klan might only be able to accept white people. The wider your spectrum of acceptance within a mind clone, the more likely you are to be able to interact honestly, openly and freely with people from many groups.
The more kinds of people we interact with, we lead, we work with, the more different ideas, know-how and insights we can gain. This is very important in the Global Sports Economy. The fact is Western Man has succeeded because of his ability to innovate, to be more creative. The USA stands on the brink of the most exciting time in history when because of the expanding ethnic diversity alone, it could become the world premier soccer nation. It is almost dizzying in it possibilities.
But it is vital that we not be dazzled by all this complexity but find ways to tap into this burgeoning sea of creativity. ISAI offers the skills of cross cultural interaction as well as giving you ways to widen your mind clone of spectrum of acceptance.
It is said that Neanderthal man could have survived along with Cro-Magnon man if only he could have increased his population growth by 2 percent. Only 2 percent and we could have two species of humans living side by side on our planet. 2 percent made the difference between extinction and survival. In the corporate warfare scenario for the 21st century, an edge of 2 % could mean the difference between a sports team survival or extinction.
Understanding how we move along The Mind Clone Spectrum of Acceptance is vital.
1. You can only be moved along the spectrum in small increments
2. You need to learn to communicate along the spectrum to bridge the barrier between you and others along the clone spectrum. To increase Synergistic Productivity in the Global Sports Economy, you will need to get out of your comfort zone on the spectrum. To decide to get out of the comfort zone is a terrifying step. The fact is, the wider our capability of moving within any mind clone spectrum, the more opportunities we have to learn, to grow, to lead and to succeed in Multiclone world.
Why do we need to do it? A good team leader wants different kinds of people in order to have maximum creativity
Here are some different mind clone the coach who is pulling athletes from worldwide sources. Each of these mind clones could cause friction:
ethnic mind cloning - where you only want people of your own ethnic group, tribe or race (at one time AfroHeritage athletes were not acceptable, the recent World Cup has brought Asian athletes to the new group that must win acceptance)
gender mind cloning - where you only want people of your same gender( The rise of the female athlete is the greatest sports phenomenon of our time)
philosophical mind cloning - where you only want people of your own philosophy like the Bush white house. They don’t care what color you are - they only want people who support the agenda and goals of the administration- conservative agenda
physical mind cloning - where you only want people who are slender, physically fit or in a particular physical type (some coaches are very dedicated to a specific body type)
age mind cloning - where you only want people in a certain age category (how many coaches cut a player who is contributing because of his or her age)
intellectual mind cloning - where you only want people of your own intelligence level around - you don't want people dumber than you or smarter than you
creativity mind cloning - where you only want people around of your same creative level
courage mind cloning - where you only want to have people around who are as brave and fearless as you
skills mind cloning - where you won’t work with a workers who is not at least as skilled as you are
religious mind cloning - Where you only want only to interface with those who worship the same way you do, the same God you do or in the exact manner you believe is okay
tribal mind cloning - Where you must belong to the same tribe or close group and those of your own race are not acceptable
family mind cloning - Where you can only accept interactions from those who belong to your own family - typical of Neanderthal Man
regional mind cloning - where you only want to interact with people from your region - such as US southerners will not bond with Northerner or want doctors or other professionals who do not share their racial antipathy
competent mind cloning - Where you cannot tolerate those who are incompetent and can only work and interact with highly competent people, as in those who work on highly technical areas such as science or the space industry
professional mind cloning - Where you only want to interact with those in your profession, such as doctors with doctors, lawyers with lawyers, etc.
environmental mind cloning - where you simply cannot tolerate those who have a different environmental stance than you do, for example, if you are an environmentalist in the Sierra club, you hate oil industry professional or vice versa
attire mind clone - Where you cannot tolerate unusual clothing, body piercing, tattoos and ways of hair arrangements that are different than your norm
food mind clone - Where you cannot accept food that is not prepared a certain way, or from a certain type of animal or plant or ways of preparation such as requiring kosher food
emotional mind clone - Where you reject anyone who expresses emotions differently than you, those who cry, get angry, lose control, are sad, depressed, withdrawn
cleanliness mind clone - Where you cannot accept anyone who is not clean or orderly
A key component of a multiclone sports or sport adventure program is to actively use your knowledge of the power of mind cloning. Mind cloning techniques could enable new players to maximum their productivity and contribution to the team. This is necessary because many players are moving from continent to another and do not even speak the same language.
When entering a new team, you always have an initiation periods where your job is to demonstrate that you are indeed a mind clone - that you think like the team's leaders and members. During this period, you will be sorely tested. Are you a mind clone who will contribute to the group by taking your new ideas, albeit creative ideas and integrate them with the teams mores and methodologies - in order words will you be willing to make a contribution to the team's already defined style of play and coaching.
A Flexible Mind Cloner is person who can do this. But no one wants to have someone at his back when they are up against the international level competitive sports situation that they cannot trust. So the situation these Flexible Mind Cloners athletes are going to face is how they can show they are Flexible Mind Cloners - and can play in more than one system of play - n o matter what country they are from, what color they are, etc.
No one can succeed in the Global Sports Economy who cannot find some way of demonstrating their ability to be some kind of Flexible Mind Cloner.
Whatever race you were born, you will probably die. What can you do about your age, or often your physical body except training and conditioning. But you can become the most important kind of mind clone - a philosophical mind clone - at least about learning all the teams plays, following the system of play and learning to please the coaches.
So when you bring in diversity players, coaches and managers - you need to teach them how to be mind clones in your organizations. What are the written and unwritten rules of behaviors. What are the Permitteds of behavior in the firm? The Permitteds of an organization or corporation determine what are the rules, their way of thinking, the action patterns of the philosophical mind clone in this organization. In other word, "how do we do things around here?
One key way is to set up peer coaching and mentoring programs so that the philosophical mind cloning process can begin. In other words, a person can always become a philosophical mind clone in term of the work methodology of his organization. And as the Bush white house has proven, that’s the only kind of mind clone that makes sense.
The fact is, people are only comfortable working with mind clones like themselves. No matter how we talk about the value of the maverick, and we usually need them around, indeed companies often have a genius somewhere who thinks up a lots of things and even have teams of these people. But the fact is, most of us don’t enjoy being in their presence all day. They’re just too different.
That's why there are so many think tanks around, the gathering of mind clones who are all creative has led to some of the greatest developments of our time - the NASA achievements, the Microsoft story, the Apple story, Hewlett Packard. These are the results of gathering together creative mind clones.
How does this relate to the Global Sports Economy. How many so called star athletes come into a scheme of play and simply fail. That's because they bring a system of play and are Mind Clonish about it. The fact is, however, the star player mind clone is still not enough to build and develop a large sport team. You still are going to need the philosophical mind clones who can play in any system of play, who can make sure they fit in and serve as a mentors for other players.
In a soccer team for example, there has to be playmakers, defenders, midfielders to control the ball and get it to the star strikers to get goals. There are very few Maradonas out there who can score a perfect goal alone in the World Cup. So the team requires all the different kinds of players in order to set up the scorer to get that spectacular goal. You need all the kinds of soccer Mind Clones that exist to make up a soccer team.
What do you do when you have multiple mind clones in your sports team?
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