A deep dive into “States”

The man who breaks things is easy to identify. The man who stays quiet, whose anger never crosses the threshold of visibility, is the dangerous one. His children learn not to speak. Communication shuts down. He does not know he is angry. He has never been told. Antano receives chocolate boxes from children whose fathers no longer get angry. The fathers come and say they never knew they were doing it.

States are not emotions. They are micro-level configurations of the entire system that determine performance in every activity. The food you eat, the learning you absorb, the deals you close are all state-dependent. There is a specific state for each activity. The person who can detect and set those states in themselves and others holds a precision capability that most around them cannot see.