Reprogramming Humans
a quick start guide
Step One Fault Identification & Assessment.
This requires a high level of awareness.
A human must first be aware of the fault which requires reprogramming and the extent of that fault. Is is a software or hardware issue? Or (likely) both? Both heavily influence each other and any issue is likely to be generated from an interplay of each.
How deeply embedded into the core operating software is the fault?
Assessing how capable the Human is to reprogram this fault or replace the tainted hardware is also essential. Not all Windows 95 Olivietti’s will be able to become shiny new MacBooks - no matter how hard you try or how long you work with them for.
Know the limitations of the system before undertaking any contract.
Awareness of the human’s willingness to change is also key. You must be highly knowledgable about the security systems presently in place and to what extent they will go to in order to protect the old coding. Some security is not worth fighting against. Some security is just too tight.
Awareness of the length of time change will take is also key. Stripping down an old system in order to rebuild it takes monumental time, effort, consistency and patience, regardless of how willing the system is to upgrade.
Step Two Preparing for Failure.
Rebuilding a mainframe is never straightforward. Building from scratch? Yes. Easy. Rebuilding when there are so many overlapping installations and programs working from the fault deeply embedded in the core - all of which you have to keep in operation whilst working on the root problem?Definitely not easy.
This can be a little like blindfolded keyhole surgery. You can think you know, you can rehearse, you can have a plan - but once you cut the shell open and get inside, you may see something you didn’t realise was there and have to form an entirely new plan. You must know this beforehand.
Things will go wrong.
You will trigger virus’s that you didn’t know were dormant. You will disconnect wires that will impact bigger programs that were working and now suddenly aren’t. You will hit moments of hopelessness and want to just throw the entire piece of faulty ‘junk’ away.
You have to be prepared for those moments and be stronger than them. Finish what you started. Always. Leaving a job halfway through is not only unprofessional, in this case it’s also highly unethical.
Step Three Doing the Work
Don’t get so focussed on the reprogramming or re installation of the past / the fault / what is wrong, that you forget to care for your present needs. Going back to basics and ensuring that your breathing, hydration, sleep, movement and nutrition needs are being met (in that order) is an essential part of the job you have undertaken.
Understand that this job is not going to require a ‘quick fix’ that you can just ‘power through’. This reinstallation may take years and so it is essential that you are able to sustain (and even thrive) throughout the process.
It will become mentally (and therefore physically) draining if you are not mastering your energy in a sustainable way. This is the backbone of the process. If your energy is being falsely propped up on say, sugar, coffee or intoxicants, you will eventually crash.
If this happens mid- installation? The entire job is compromised. It will become a chore instead of a labour of love. It will become stressful instead of joyful. It will become a burden to you.
Maintaining your energy, healthily and sustainably, is a key part of doing the work.
Step Four Not Giving Up
Did you trigger some major catastrophie whilst digging around in the core of the operating system? Did you replace some hardware only to find it incompatible with other programs that you can’t afford to lose?
Whatever went wrong, it can be fixed.
Your calm patience is required, however. Your perseverance, too. Adding more heavy emotions and stress into the mix is ill-advised. Take a breath, or break if needed, and keep doing the work.
No matter how many errors you hit. No matter how many virus’s have you starting over again. No matter how many times you have to replace components or wiring or whatever other computer pieces that would continue this analogy for me!
Reach out for help if you need to. Know that no matter what, giving up is not an option. Everything is fixable. Everything is easily fixable, when you know how. Sometimes pausing to update your skills is necessary to continue the job. If that’s what is needed? Do it!
Your job, is to do what is needed to get this system operating again. And not just operating, but upgraded and operating.
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Please note that this is self advice! If you find yourself trying to rebuild other people - and you are not a parent or caring for children / young adults, you are doing life wrong.
You can assist other adults in their self rebuild process - but if you are the only one doing the work? It won’t work.
All adult human programming upgrades are an internal process.
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Comments (5)
I need to reprogram myself to not try and take people on as projects and focus on myself. Well done!!!!
This is really interesting Kayleigh. I found myself both agreeing with the concepts you've laid out, but also a bit unnerved as it reads like an instruction manual that you would give to a robot on how to process something - it really gave me an "AI" feel for restructuring humans. I know that wasn't the idea, but it felt like that at points 😅 The process is solid though. It is a really good metaphor for the process of self-development which I think will land for many people.
This guide is very inspirational, Kayleigh! I can see how much works you’ve put in there.
I love this! Excellent :)
Well-wrought! This analogy has often occurred to me. However, a caveat: we are not all machines. Sometimes "the work" is a story, a sculpture, an abstract painting, a diffuse treatise that only makes sense after repeated study. Sometimes... a tragic one. Sometimes... a lonely one. Trying to build a perfectly functional machine is nice, but what if what the work requires is a work of art that gives others pause in their pursuit of perfection? Perhaps makes them ask: what are we building and for whom? For what? Just a caveat. This is a very well articulated general treatise on the act of self-improvement!