I Know What You're Thinking

Directions for identifying someone's current thoughts are below. Spoiler: context matters and results correlate to empathetic ability as much as correctness. Example: conclusions could be a personal measure of personal cognitive biases and not a highly correlated output of "mind reading."

Prepare yourself = this took a lot of words.

I smiled typing mind reading above and still smiling as I write this following disclaimer = yep, it is factually mind reading and nope, my process is simple, logical, and likely not what you're picturing. My process works.

Kicker: a working mind-reading process is not as cool as it sounds = tons of negatives that come with it. Example: Human beings like privacy and there is a default assumption/perspective that you can keep what you think hidden = nope.

Reality: all humans pick up the signals you're giving off and similar to a lie-detecting test, the trick is in the interpretation = prioritize understanding the interpretation part.

Know that you don't know

I'm laying the fundamental logic now before listing my personal (successful) steps below. In my experience, the fundamental logic and understandings can't be forced. Example: I'm about to tell you that this is real and works great. Most reading this will assume I'm wrong (confirmation bias) and skip over the info = their loss.

Why do governments compartmentalize secret info? = Because it only takes 1 missing block for the obvious to become un-obvious. I'm sharing 1 of these missing blocks now. Not in a dangerous, secret, or crazy way but in an "Ignorance is Bliss" kind of way. Odds are and in my experience, you were happier not knowing what you're about to learn below.

Last chance to turn away:

1) You are thinking of what you're thinking = if it happened, it's measurable. The next logical question is "How would someone know?"

2) Words don't mean anything. Don't think of the words people use. Words don't matter = it's a trick = avoid the trap!! What people factually say is the least important part of what they're saying. This is one of the compartmentalized blocks I mentioned above = spoken words are only an illusion of thought.

3) I search for the path of least resistance, not truth. This is important to note and where most fall off the observational bandwagon = my conclusions are wrong until proven otherwise. Specifically (and confusingly), I take guesses and try to prove myself wrong using the observations. The goal is not to be right but to be not wrong = significant point. Humans are optimized for negativity. Being not wrong is easier than being right.

4) What people are thinking is what they're most willing to hear. Good / Bad, Right / Wrong, Happened / Didn't Happen = less important. Don't focus on the surface. It doesn't matter. The info we're after is on a different level. I picture this as a different dimension of the same observations.

5) "Observation" mentioned above is the prime learning curve to my seeing thoughts process. Example: what do you see? = a measure of depth more than a measure of fact. Example: 2 people can look at the same thing and see different things. The more you see, the more this works. Don't look for specifics. Don't look for discrete measures. This is best described as a vibe. Let go of the need to quantify it = measurement bias = this is not easy to measure.

6) Come up with an educated guess, "I wonder if they're thinking this" and then test it. Example: Do you think I'm a good person? I won't ask you directly. I will say something suggesting that I'm a good person and then observationally measure your indirect response = did the look on your face change after I said it?

7) Find the correct fit hypothesis through a high volume of questions. True story: I developed this mind-reading process after watching the 1st Sonic the Hedgehog movie. The movie gave me a mental visual I was able to map onto my logical but categorical thought reading SOP.

At the end of the first Sonic movie, Sonic hits Doctor Robotnik's flying machine a bunch of times. Sonic does this so fast that his movements blur into an outline of the flying machine. Similar to the recent and real picture of a black hole, we can measure the unseeable black hole (someone's thoughts) by its seeable event horizon = we CAN see what people are not thinking.

= Look for what people are not thinking

8) This post is too long. I'm summarizing a conclusion now and considering sharing more details through a series of LI posts later on.

Easy to relate to example of my mind-reading process. Picture kids in high school developing a "crush" on classmates. It's obvious when they don't like someone and less obvious when they do = ask questions and make statements that eliminate all the people they don't like. You'll know when they don't like someone.

This is the Sonic process I mentioned above and its output is a shape (blackhole/event horizon) of what's left over. From there, normal intuitive, detective-like processes take over starting at the most probable conclusion and working down to the least probable.

Important: on average and in my experience, people don't like it when you're right. So much so, this is how I know when I'm right. I measure the look on their face. Picture the look you would have if a stranger walked into your house. This part is a human default. It's impossible to hide it = it's possible to know what people are thinking by eliminating what they're not thinking.