I fell in love with Spiral Dynamics as a way to understand human perceptions and resulting behaviour with great clarity as soon as I was first introduced to it in 2002. Spiral Dynamics is not the only tool worth using, however it is a wonderful big picture tool that explains what has been unexplainable without it.
So, spiral covered. Why spanking? When first thinking of this blog (about five years ago) I wanted an alliteration, so the title rhymed. Spanking has connotations of inappropriate, abusive, and (for some people) intense play. These of all connotations seemed appropriate. I didn't consider myself a formally trained expert in SD. Thus, for what I intended to do in this blog, discuss human behaviour, the connotations of "perhaps inappropriate", "slightly abusive", "intense" and "fun play" seemed appropriate. Now also looking at dictionary.com reveal some other hopefully appropriate formal definitions I wasn't aware of: "to move rapidly, smartly, or briskly" and "to go at a quick and lively pace".
Anyway, to business.
I find SD (and other aspects of psychology) a useful way to think about how people behaviour.
And having a blog is a better of communicating this than just Notes on Facebook, where typically only my "friends" are likely to read it.
Though it is also on Facebook where my first Spiral Dynamics book is. It's a picture book, five photographs, taken in the British Museum, and a dozen paragraphs. And entitled: Blue, the creator of civilisation.
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