Reading Genkai Dokusho's Conceptual Groups as a 'Circuit for Behavioral Transformation' | Why Installing an OS Doesn't Change a Person

Introduction: Concepts don't work just by being installed

In the article before last, I organized Genkai Dokusho's conceptual groups using two types of 2-axis maps.

What became clear there was that the conceptual groups appearing in Genkai Dokusho's posts do not seem to be scattered words, but rather possess a certain cohesive positional relationship.

However, once the positions of the concepts become visible, there is something else I want to think about.

That is the question of how those concepts connect to action.

Even if you place a concept in your brain, it does not necessarily mean that your judgments or actions will change just because of that.

In Genkai Dokusho's posts, the feeling of 'installing an OS' is discussed impressively. Adopting a new perspective. Replacing the premises of your thinking. That expression is an important clue for reading Genkai Dokusho's posts.

On the other hand, installation is also just the entrance.

If a concept is not connected to action or habit, that concept will remain just placed inside the brain.

In this article, I will visually trace, focusing on diagrams, 'how can installed concepts be converted into action?'

Chapter 1: Reinterpreting the 4-quadrant map as 4 layers

First, let's look at the previous map from a slightly different angle.

I will read the concepts that were placed on a plane this time as layers that stack from bottom to top. When you do this, it becomes easier to see not only the positional relationship between the concepts, but also the order in which they work.

What I want to confirm here first is that cognition is placed as the foundation.

In Genkai Dokusho's posts, there is a way of organizing perspectives such as 'how to see,' 'how to receive,' and 'in what context to judge.'

On top of that, you choose a place, translate it into experience, and put it out. In this diagram, I have organized that flow into four layers.

By reinterpreting the previous map as layers, it begins to look as if Genkai Dokusho's conceptual groups possess not only a 'place to put them' but also an 'order of stacking'.

Next, I will try repositioning these 4 layers horizontally. When you do this, the hierarchy of concepts can be read as a processing model that flows from left to right.

Chapter 2: Installation Alone Does Not Change You

Let us return here to the expression "installing an OS."

This expression can be read as indicating a sense of not just knowing new knowledge, but incorporating it into the premises of one's own perspective and judgment.

However, if you stop here, your behavior will not yet change.

The installed concept must be transformed within oneself and connected to judgment and action. Only when you proceed that far does the concept begin to work.

What I want to show in this figure is the point that there is a transformation circuit between "installation" and "changing into action".

Incorporating a concept and having that concept change your behavior are not the same thing.

In that sense, the subject of this article is not just "what to install."

How do you transform the installed concept, and how do you Load (execute) it?

When you look at it that way, Genkai Dokusho's conceptual framework appears not as a system of knowledge, but as a process of behavioral transformation.

Chapter 3: Viewing it through the auxiliary line of ETL

Here, I will look at the four-layer model from a slightly different angle.

The concept I will use as an auxiliary line is "ETL".

"ETL" is an acronym for Extract, Transform, and Load. In the IT field, it is used as a process to extract necessary elements, organize them into an easy-to-handle format, and pass them to a place where they can actually be used, rather than using collected data as is.

In this article, I treat ETL not as a technical term, but as a metaphor for capturing the flow of knowledge as it approaches action.

New knowledge remains abstract just by entering your mind.

First, you must reinterpret it to fit your own environment and context. Furthermore, you must connect it to past failures, daily judgments, and feelings of discomfort, and integrate it into your own experience.

By going through these two transformations, the concept approaches a form that you can handle within yourself.

The Load referred to here is executing what you have organized within yourself as judgment and action.

A concept is still in progress at the stage of being understood. It only begins to have value once it is in an executable form.

Chapter 4: How does knowledge change into action?

Finally, let's look at the flow of how knowledge approaches action, using a few concepts as examples.

What I want to highlight in Figure 5 is that concepts do not work in isolation.

For example, a new perspective doesn't change behavior on its own; it begins to function by connecting to how you choose your environment and your daily judgments.

Also, concepts like 'survival strategies for the weak' do not just view weakness as a disadvantage; they manifest as action by connecting to choices that prevent you from dropping out and to ways of extracting learning, turning your quirks into strengths.

Figure 6 is a summary of the flow we have looked at so far.

Know. Install. Adjust your perspective. Choose your place. Incorporate into experience. Put it out there. And then, Load (execute).

Only after going through this flow does a concept finally turn into action.

When you read Genkai Dokusho's concepts in this way, they appear not as things to line up in your head, but as conversion circuits to connect to action.

Conclusion: Viewing concepts as conversion circuits

In this article, I have visually organized Genkai Dokusho's concepts using diagrams, treating them as a flow that is converted into action.

Concepts do not move just by knowing them.

Adjust your perspective, adapt to the place you are in, incorporate them into your experience, and finally, Load (execute) them as judgments or actions. Only by passing through that flow do concepts begin to work within you.

When you read Genkai Dokusho's posts in this way, concepts appear not just as a collection of words, but as auxiliary lines for reviewing your own actions.

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