Criteria Meta-Program Sort

Meta-program sorts describe different ways that people delete, distort, and generalize about what they perceive. You can calibrate someone's meta-program sorts through the words they use. You can also use meta-program sorts to calibrate when certain changes have taken place.

One of the most interesting meta-program sorts, to me, is Criteria. Whose criteria is being used where? I came up with a simple way to think about these, and thought it might be useful to others.

. Name Whose criteria is applied to self? Whose criteria is applied to others? . Self Self Self . Shift -- Self . Simultaneous Self Other . Switch Other --

James Brown Story

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How to Write Fast... And Get Even Faster

I've written the shortest possible guide to writing fast. Well, shorter than, "write every day for five minutes; repeat." Let me know what you think.

General Guidelines:

• Timebox the following steps. Set a time for each one and stick to it. When your time limit is up, you're finished with that step.
• You'll improve the quickest if you stop when your time limit is up and move onto the next step.
  
• When you're starting out, just do one or two steps a day for 5-10 minutes each.
• IMPORTANT: Take time to feel really good after accomplishing each step!
  
• You must write badly before you write goodly.
• If you do this process and repeat it, your writing will get faster and more clear.

The Steps

1. Brainstorm. Write your topic and all the related ideas down. Don't edit.
2. Outline topics. Organize your ideas into an outline, like this list. Incomplete sentences, quick blurbs, imprecise grammar are great.
   
3. Outline subtopics of ONE topic. Choose an item from your outline, preferably the one you know the most about or are the most excited about. Break it down into subtopics that will create less than one page of text. Estimate as best you know how.
4. Write one subtopic. Write the content for one outline item, starting with the broadest information and filling in the details.
   
5. Revise the subtopic for clarity.
   
6. Revise the subtopic for grammar, punctuation, word choice, and spelling.
7. Revise again. Do this on another day.