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About
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The
Mission of The Human Effectiveness Institute
(THEI) is to make widely available new tools to focus the mind, enabling higher performance. And in the process to continue basic research and tool refinement.
The
Vision
is that by becoming more effective individuals, the human race can solve all of
the world's problems which the race has created.
The
Institute was
formed in 1976 and was granted a federal tax exemption as
a 501C3 scientific and educational foundation. Objectives
of The Human Effectiveness Institute are, to quote from
the Certificate of Incorporation:
"4.
PURPOSES. The purposes for which the corporation is organized
are as follows:
(a) To conduct research into how humans internally process
sensory, cognitive, emotive and intuitive information
in order to make moment-to-moment action decisions - both
normatively and optimally (i.e. how do most humans do
this, and how can this be maximally improved).
(b) To create, test, refine and distribute educational
materials (both print and broadcast media forms; classrooms;
home study; etc.) which tend to documentably improve the
information-processing basis for decision-making in the
sphere of normal day-to-day human life."
The
Institute's first educational material was a book that was
used as a course text at 34 universities including NYU and
UCLA. The Institute's executive director was invited by
the U.S. Army to present the material to the Commandant
and Corps of cadets at West Point, and to Delta Force at
the Army's graduate school Carlisle War College. New England
Merchants National Bank was among the companies to use the
material and to write an endorsement of its efficacy.
The
latter book has been recently updated with the latest learnings
and was released in September, 2002 as FREEING
CREATIVE EFFECTIVENESS, Doorways into the Upper Mind.
The
plan of the Institute, beginning with this book, is to distribute
material designed to catalyze the upper mind, through all
media and educational channels worldwide. Implementation
within organizations will be linked with pre-post measurements
of team performance. Basic research will be conducted to
determine the psychophysiological substrate of the condition
we call the upper mind.
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