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Public language of this sort would be most effective on that personality type identified by Eric Hoffer⁹⁰ as a True Believer. True Believers are generally unhappy with their lot in life and seek to place blame for this unhappiness on some external pressure. This leads them to seek solutions to their problems in outside sources also, leading them to support massive change in the social order. They can easily be led to denigrate the present and place all their hopes on the future, while simultaneously being manipulated by depictions of the past that validate the belief structure they've internalized. These proclivities lead the True Believer into joining mass movements and sacrificing their present selves for the movement's future.

Those who find public language to be crass, mundane, and generally ineffective in motivating them are those who benefit most from developing private language. They tend to have a strong sense of self situated in the present, and feel responsible for their own actions and happiness. Bearing in mind that we only ever learn through our senses, we'd like to share with you a strategy for speed-learning that involves developing private language using an illustration from aikido. You watch your instructor perform a technique without internal dialog and with great attention to the movements being demonstrated. Then you practice it, concentrating on the proprioceptive⁹¹ feeling of the movements. Because of habituation, if you do not focus intently on the internal dynamics and feedback of the movement, you will very quickly be unable to track such proprioceptions, so it is imperative that you focus on this internal perception from the outset. You work on it until it feels like the instructor looked, until the movements are easy and smooth. Later you can anchor the movement with the sound of its name, until the verbalization and the action occur simultaneously.

For our final example this chapter, let's examine the idea of a multimind⁹² in relation to the concept of the mastermind. Mastermind groups⁹³ are something of an externalized example of what would be called a multimind if internalized. Each structure is built upon the ones beneath it and the reflexes rest upon the construction of the body. As such, you can frequently manipulate a layer by acting on the one beneath it. The protocols of the multimind identified are largely involved with determining what information is passed up the structural levels of the nervous system. Here's something of a breakdown of the multimind structures and protocols: