A precisely established thought-pattern of an individual towards someone/something is mindset, while a specifically established work-pattern of an individual towards someone/something is behaviour. An established mindset/behaviour is evolved over a period of time and gives a consistent look to an individual. The very bases of mindset are knowledge, intellect, intuition, and collective wisdom, consequently a change or some shift in bases changes the mindset. On the other hand, the very bases of behaviour are some impulsions or internal human desires and a few compulsions or external social pressures such as physical needs, psychological instincts, mind powers, soul urges, rites & rituals, and social customs. A firmness and flexibility is attached, inevitably, with mindset/behaviour. Firmness maintains the previous achievements of an individual, while flexibility provides room for new achievements to a person. It is risky to mend mindset and behaviour, abruptly. An abrupt change may disturb some positive character-traits, as well.
A parallel presence or coexistence of mindset and behaviour is essential aspect of life phenomena. They are inter-dependant and inter-linked with each other. A mindset denotes the conceptual aspect of an individual, while the behaviour is practical facet of mindset. A human mind has three basic powers or intelligences - Decision Power or Perceptual Intelligences, Emotional Power or Emotional Intelligences, and Will Power or Intentional Intelligences. Behaviour is practical manifestation of mindset; so that it gets strength from mind powers or multiple intelligences. A de-link or independence between mindset and behaviour creates an abnormal personality.
The prominent internal human desires that work as impulsive drives for specific behaviour are multiple survival needs such as food, cloth, shelter, sleep, leisure, health, self-esteem, social-recognition, and financial opulence. An excessive or unjust provision of survival needs leads, ultimately, towards some abnormal behaviour. For example, excessive diet mean excessive fat and countless body problems, excessive sleep mean lethargy and mal-functioning of body systems, excessive dressing of cloth mean excessive burden and distorted body mechanics, excessive sheltered housing mean congested environment and infected living conditions, excessive work pressure mean burnout and physical fatigue, excessive dirt mean pollution and poor health profile, excessive esteem mean conceit and snobbish social environ, concentration of wealth mean poverty and exploitative economic environment, and concentration of power mean corruption and tyrannical political conditions, and so on and so forth. An opposite work-pattern is established due to some shortage provision of survival needs.
The prominent external social pressures that work as compulsive drives on an individual towards some definite work-patterns are multi-dimensional collective systems of a society such as social network of individuals/families, sectoral network of entrepreneurs / firms, political network of statesmen / state institutions. An individual is inseparably linked with multiple social institutions that give him/her strength and recognition at all levels of social interaction. A sustained social interaction shapes a definite interactive behaviour. Moreover, a person is, inescapably, an economic agent; he/she earns as worker / entrepreneur and spends modestly or generously or lavishly. A specific earning and spending behaviour is outcome of economic interaction of individuals. In addition, an individual is, unavoidably, a citizen of a state; he/she follows some state rules and participates in state affairs through ballot and civic responsibilities, consequently, a distinct participatory behaviour is established. In nutshell, the social, economic, and political pressures put infallible imprints on one's behaviour.
Taxonomy of Behaviour
Life is conscious move towards certain goals & objectives. An established mindset and evolved behaviour are vital supportive tools for purposive struggle of life. An activity, either mental or physical, consumes human energy during some conscious effort. Conscious energy is scarce gift of nature. A viable solution to scarcity phenomenon is to delegate some conscious efforts to pre-conscious. At pre-conscious level an activity is done nicely / swiftly, but psychological exhaustion is extremely minute. It happens on countless occasions of life, for example, a car driving is a conscious activity, initially, but it becomes, dominantly, a pre-conscious activity with the passage of time, consequently, it becomes a habitual activity and mental exhaustion is negligible during car driving. We may define, a habit is acquired behaviour-pattern and it is pre-conscious, dominantly. Behaviour based on habits predominantly is habitual behaviour, while behaviour without habits dominantly is non-habitual behaviour. A habitual behaviour enhances the productivity and quality of certain activities, however, a habitual behaviour is acquisitive and time-honored phenomenon; it is evolved slowly, gradually, and painfully. A non-habitual behaviour is conscious behaviour towards certain goals & objectives. It is noteworthy; all human activities are, generally, a blend of habits and non-habits.
A rational analysis of human behaviour manifests, a behaviour pattern, either habitual or non-habitual, has two levels - Normal & Abnormal. Abnormal behaviour is unintelligent and based on ignorance, while a normal behaviour is intelligent and based on knowledge. It is noteworthy that the abnormal is recognized as the terminal term of the normal. On the other hand, a moral examination of human behaviour reveals, a behaviour pattern, either habitual or non-habitual, has two types - Right & Wrong. A right behaviour is judicious, responsible, and fruitful for mankind; while a wrong behaviour is unjust, irresponsible, and harmful for humanity.
Absolute Bases of Human Behaviour
The absolute bases of human behavior are certain physical needs, a few psychological instincts, and some spiritual urges.
1. Physical Needs, The physical needs constantly instigate to an individual towards some specific behaviour-pattern. They remain active until their demand is not met. Physical needs are countless, quantitatively, and recursive, structurally. A just approach towards need satisfaction is essential for normal physical conditions.
2. Psychological Instincts, Instincts are essential aspect of human personality. An instinct is a natural tendency of self towards something. The very satisfaction of instinctual tendencies is necessary for peaceful mind. Human instincts are numerous such as parental instinct, gregarious instinct, learning instinct, and sex instinct. The intensity of instinctual pressures is extremely capricious, so that and instinctual-driven life may shape an unpredictable/volatile behaviour-pattern of an individual.
3. Soul Urges, A soul is vital aspect of human personality. A soul is immaterial energy with multiple urges. We may group them into three broad categories - religious urges, ethical urges, and aesthetic urges. A religious urge guides towards some definite faith and devotional behaviour. An ethical urge encourages some specific values and provides basis to moral behaviour. An aesthetic urge promotes artistic tendencies and provides basis to creative behaviour.
Balanced Human Behaviour
A balance human behaviour is ultimate objective of life. Physical needs or psychological instincts or soul urges are constant personality elements available to everyone; they provide a level playing field to all and sundry. A balance human behaviour is, dominantly, mind phenomenon. It is shaped due to multiple mind-powers/intelligences, distinctively gifted to different individuals. Every individual is endowed, naturally, by multiple intelligences. We may group them into three broad categories - Perceptual Intelligences, Emotional Intelligences, and Intentional Intelligences. The very basis of perceptual intelligences is intellect, while the sentiments and intentions are the foundation stones of emotional and intentional intelligences, respectively. Moreover, perceptual intelligences provide basis to good judgment, emotional intelligences breed better intuition, and intentional/practical intelligences develop wisdom. The stable combination of good judgment or decision power, intuition or emotional power, and wisdom or will power creates balance behaviour-pattern of individuals.
Multiple Intelligences - An Intensive Review
Man is endowed, naturally, by multiple intelligences. We may group these intelligences into three broad categories - Perceptual Intelligences, Emotional Intelligences, and Intentional Intelligences. We take an intensive but brief review of multiple intelligences to develop better understanding of behaviour.
Perceptual Intelligence - It is ability to understand, accurately. It has four aspects:
· Mathematical Intelligence/Logical Intelligence, it is ability to understand exact relations among things or persons or events.
· Linguistic Intelligence, it is ability to understand the correct connotation of language (words, phrases, sentences, etc.) and to use language correctly, both verbally as well as non-verbally.
· Spatial Intelligence, it is ability to understand spatial / geographical importance of something.
· Temporal Intelligence, it is ability to understand the temporal / historical importance of something.
Emotional Intelligence - It is ability to feel, truly. It has four aspects;
· Interpersonal Intelligence, it is ability to feel sentiments of others,
· Intra-personal Intelligence, it is ability to feel sentiments of self,
· Aesthetic Intelligence, it ability to feel beauty of animate and inanimate objects.
· Cultural Intelligence, it ability to feel virtue / vice of customary / non-customary behaviour of an individual or a group.
Intentional Intelligence - It is ability to do, properly. It has four aspects:-
· Leadership Intelligence/Entrepreneurship, it is ability to lead / organize, effectively.
· Imitational Intelligence/Followership, it is ability to follow, efficiently
· Peer Intelligence/Friendship, it is ability to work in a group of peers or team, friendly.
· Institutional Intelligence, it is ability to interact with institutions or to work in institutional setup, productively.
It is noteworthy that a human activity involves, generally, more than one or multiple intelligences. For example, an essay writing activity use logical intelligence for conceptual basis of essay, linguistic intelligence for proper usage of words and sentences, aesthetic intelligence for beautiful idioms and phrases, cultural intelligence to accommodate vice or virtue of ideas, and leadership intelligence to provide an effective shape to essay.
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