These are all questions handled by the Self 1.0 program.

Someone who always wants to be mostly himself would be advised to become an artist. He'll have a very hard time in an organization. That's not a place where you can always do what you want, or in the way you wish to do it.

Ops 1.0 deals with everything we've learned at school and in further education/training. Calculation, logical thinking, reasoning, language, biochemistry, etiquette and all that stuff. It's a world of conclusions, downloads, putting things in order, axioms and facts. The world of experts. The professionals. Healthy people spend 90% of their time in the operational mode. They do what they are able to do.

Strat 1.0 can be seen as a supplementary package for your operational thinking. This too deals with facts and analyses, but the output consists not of conclusions but rather of hypotheses. A line of argument doesn't end with 'therefore', but with 'nevertheless'. So the pace is a little more relaxed than in operational thinking. The style of analysis is different too. It's like the difference between a dog and a cat at a rabbit-hole: the dog (which has a very operational approach) immediately starts to dig up the burrow. A cat will take a few steps back and wait...

Someone who is chronically strategically oriented will become hung up, withdrawn and intolerable. People who never think strategically run the risk of getting stuck in a corner and losing their ability to cope independently. They are too nice for this world.

What all three of these control programs have in common is that they all tend towards the ‘me, myself and I’ mode. I want to be myself (Self 1.0), I want what my analyses indicate as right (Ops 1.0) and I want to achieve my goal (Strat 1.0).

The fourth program, Com 1.0, is much more socially oriented and Mandela-like.

Communicative thinking and action is based on the assumption that each of us is just one player in a field of force. So all we can do is to make moves, wait for other people's moves and then make new moves. Etcetera, etcetera. Irrespective of the outcome.

The only goal of the Com player is that the field of force should develop further in a constructive way and that he remain a player within it.

But the highest goal is to be a player who is a strong personality, good in the operational mode, able to think strategically and who can communicate if required.