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Understanding Human Behavior

According to Webster's Dictionary, behavior is defined as the manner of behaving: conduct, manners and carriage of oneself, with respect to propriety or morals. It also defines behavior as an organism's muscular or glandular response to stimulation, especially that can be observed. Thus behavior in the broader sense implies thinking, feeling, doing, attitude and habits.

The Goodself And The Lesser Self

Human behavior can be positive or negative. Positive behavior is our goodself while the negative behavior is our lesser self. To identify our goodself and lesser self, let us look at languages regardless of any tribe, which describes our thinking, feeling, doing, attitude and habits in a context, which can be either positive or negative. It can be of any structure and sound. It can also be a word, a phrase, a sentence or a context in any language.

For example:

Positive and Negative Thinking

Goodself Lesser self
We can We can’t
Nothing is impossible Everything is impossible
We can achieve success Success is hard to come by
Hard work pays Hard work doesn’t pay
Life is beautiful Life is full of problems


Positive And Negative Feelings

Goodself Lesser self
Happy Sad
Love Hate
Joys Upset
Contentment Discontentment
Fulfillment Frustration


Positive and Negative Doings

Goodself Lesser self
Help Harm
Save Kill
Build Destroy
Praise Condemn
Motivate Demoralize


Positive and Negative Attitude

Goodself Lesser self
Hardworking Lazy
Flexible Hard-headed
Fair Bias
Enthusiastic Bored
Matured Immature


Positive and Negative Habits

Goodself Lesser self
Organized Disorganized
Punctuality Tardiness
Knowledge seeker Gamble
Healthy living Living on substance
Functional activities Dysfunctional activities


From the above we can conclude that human beings are imperfect as we have both the goodself and the lesser self.

According to Carl Jung, we have the God and Devil in us. Therefore, human being lies in the continuum of the divine being and the lesser being as seen in the diagram below:

Those who have more goodself are closer to the divine being while those with more lesser self are closer to the lesser being. We can cultivate our goodself and move towards the divine being. Alternatively, we can also cultivate our lesser being and head towards the lesser being. In other words we can walk from darkness to light. We can also walk from light to darkness.


KYKO's five (5) dimension of trait clusters:

Egocentric Self
The need for power, image and control

Sociocentric Self
The need for love, care, companionship and affiliation Security Self
The need for safety, system, structure, order and protection

Self-Actualizing Self
The need for growth, progress, self development, achievement and fulfillment

Manipulative Self
The need to adapt, change and be flexible to survive in a turbulent dynamic environment.