Promises Tracking Device for Mental Shield Activation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for helping individuals resist temptations, such as overeating, are unreliable and stressful, with low success rates due to the powerful primitive mind's tendency to seek pleasure and avoid pain, leading to obesity and other behavioral control issues.
Innovation Solution
The Shield Method enables individuals to program their minds to resist temptations by creating a 'Mental Shield' state, activated through a commitment to a chain of promises, which helps them feel sure about their limitations, thereby reducing the mind's urge to indulge in unwanted behaviors.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional willpower and diet methods are used to resist temptations, then individuals can try to control their behavior, but the primitive mind's powerful stimulations make success unreliable and stressful
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by having individuals make promises in advance before temptations arise. The promises tracking device records these pre-commitment promises and provides reminders before tempting situations occur, enabling individuals to prepare mentally and act consistently with their pre-declared intentions without having to rely on willpower during the moment of temptation.
Solution Approach 2:
The promises tracking device implements feedback by continuously monitoring whether individuals keep their promises and providing immediate feedback through the database and reminder systems. This feedback loop reinforces consistent behavior by acknowledging when promises are kept and can trigger reminders or consequences when promises are broken, making the behavior modification process more reliable and less stressful over time.
2Ease of operation
If the primitive mind is allowed to operate freely to seek pleasure, then natural desires are satisfied, but harmful behaviors such as overeating and obesity result
Solution Approach 1:
The promises tracking device acts as an intermediary between the individual's natural desires and their health goals. Instead of directly suppressing the primitive mind's pleasure-seeking behavior, the system mediates by having individuals make voluntary promises about their behavior, track those promises, and use the tracking mechanism to maintain balance between satisfying natural desires and preventing harmful outcomes.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by allowing individuals to create and manage their own promise tracking systems. Individuals make their own promises, input their own data into the tracking device, and receive personalized reminders and feedback, empowering them to self-regulate their behavior without external control while still benefiting from structured accountability.
3Reliability
If strict restrictions are imposed on behavior to prevent unwanted actions, then control is achieved, but the mind creates powerful counter-urges and rationalizations
Solution Approach 1:
The system addresses counter-urges by having individuals make promises in advance that explicitly state their intended behavior. The promises tracking device then provides reminders before tempting situations arise, enabling individuals to act consistently with their pre-declared intentions before the mind can generate counter-urges. This preliminary commitment approach prevents the mind from creating rationalizations by establishing clear expectations beforehand.
4Reliability
If continuous monitoring and tracking are implemented to ensure behavior compliance, then personal control is enhanced, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The promises tracking device implements self-service by allowing individuals to input their own promises and behavior data directly into the system. The database automatically stores and retrieves this information, and the system generates personalized reminders based on the input data. This self-service approach enhances personal control through continuous monitoring while minimizing system complexity by eliminating the need for complex external monitoring infrastructure.
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AI summary
A method of tracking promises from a user, which includes the steps of providing a learning and training phase to the user for learning promise techniques, recording a plurality of viable promises made by the user in a chainlike manner to form a promise chain; guiding the user to keep each of the viable promises from the promise chain; and determining a promise score of the user regarding to the promise chain, which is an incentive to motivate the user to keep the promise score as high as possible, wherein when one of the viable promises is broken, the promise chain is then broken to have a negative affect on the promise score.