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1ST GEAR
2ND GEAR When you're in Mental Second Gear, your heart tells your mind to get some love circulating, because a soul without love circulation is like a Porcshe on the planet of no gas stations. Love, whether giving or receiving, is the only fuel that we're built to run on long without blowing our gaskets and wrecking up the place. 3RD GEAR When you're in Mental Third Gear, your mind is on finding a comfortable sense of your personal role in causing things and having a desired effect on things. 4TH GEAR When you're in Mental Fourth Gear, your heart works the magic that balances the world you want with the world you've got. 5TH GEAR When you're in Mental Fifth Gear, your mind is on making sure you get your chance to express something and have it received, unedited, for the good that might be experienced from it.
6TH GEAR When you're in Mental Sixth Gear, your mind is in a more imaginitave mode, linking internal movie pictures together into something that could lift you from the realities of this moment to the proposed outcomes cooked up by your spirit. Pattern recognition is the ability that gives the 6th Gear its torque on real terrain. 7TH GEAR When you're in Mental Seventh Gear, your mind settles comfortably into more and more experience of the divine. The divine activity in all things around you come into clearly viewable resolution when your mind's eye is in 7th Gear. |
In the arty science of making stuff really happen
| Books for the Finisher Experience |
| Rock Songs for the Finisher Experience |
More than any other personality type, the Finisher is the "business end" of the gene pool. Students of the enneagram tradition will recognize the Finisher as the "Type 8." To the Finisher, thinking and feeling are just fancy ways of stalling when a result is obviously needed and the hands are obviously built for the job.
I believe the Finisher is also something we all inherit as a capability built into our own being at birth. So it's not just a personality type for especially gifted people; it is a set of genetic tools to help us each survive and avoid discussing ourselves into oblivion.
I believe a story will provide you with a better glimpse of the energies at play in personality than any personality test or written profile will ever be able to convey. So to bring you into an Finisher's world long enough to get some of the flavor, I have scrounged up a list of songs. Songs are just story snapshots of the human condition, after all.
Click on the song list link below to introduce yourself to the Finisher moods of mankind, then come back to this page to check out the chart of Finisher key concepts to the right. Both the songs and the key concept chart will make more sense after you compare them back and forth.
Rock Songs for the Finisher Experience
| The Finisher's | Epic Quest | is to find The Universe's
"throttle valve," and punch it before "reality" catches up with us like a mountain lion! |
| The Finisher's | backup in distress | include: Fist, lawsuit, control of disclosure,
propaganda, invasive "partnership," obstruction of staple resources, and scandal salvos. |
| The Finisher's | safety blueprint | is "free"-market competition. |
| The Finisher's | thinks in blocks of | deadlines or ultimatums. |
| The Finisher's | sacred credo | Words Don't Cut It. |
| The Finisher's | dreaded enemy | is regulation. |
| The Finisher's | buzz word | ...done deal... |
| The Finisher's | magic wand | is any way to disable and dominate. |
| The Finisher's | desire | is to reconstitute order to suit what the moment demands. |
| The Finisher's | true virtue | is follow-through. |
| The Finisher's | false virtue #1 | is power. |
| The Finisher's | false virtue #2 | is the role of indespensible provider. |
| The Finisher's | false virtue #3 | is "service" as arbitrator of valuable beliefs and habits. |
| The Finisher's | strength | is a gift for being conclusive. |
| The Finisher's | petty attachment | is sole control and ownership of externals. |
| The Finisher's | noble connection | is unconditional candor. |
| The Finisher's | courage point | is daring to allow others' priorities to carry weight, dignity and worth. |
| The Finisher's | Key Reward | is a liberating (not borrowed) sense of capability. |