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Planning Focus (our Conscious Planning Mind)
The Conscious Planning Mind is what many people think of as our reasoning consciousness. I believe that it is actually the arbiter of the inputs of our other focuses of mind and is considerably more variable and less logical than we tend to imagine.
The slow-processing of the Planning Focus gives us the abilities to problem-solve, to explore alternative tactics, and to plan more comprehensively and further into the future. This is the part of our mind that we think of as being logical and able to chain ideas together. This is the part of our mind where thought-led motivations come from, for example determination, choosing, strongly-focussed awareness (concentration), and willpower.
The Planning Focus is mainly aimed at the near future, to identify risks and possibilities and problem-solve. The Planning Focus can literally control, or override, other mind functions, with enough willpower and determination, at least for a time.
Speed Interest Characteristics
Slow Interested in problem-solving.

Attempts to plan for the best future.

Can express need for efficiency, or pragmatism, or balance between the other Focuses.

Very adaptable.

Heavily dependent on conscious thought and reasoning.

Acts through thoughts but can generate some emotions.

The 'problems' tackled by the Planning Focus will often be concerned with cultural status and maintaining an individual 'place' in society.

Typical emotions include interest, determination, curiosity, anxiety, general-arousal.

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