The scale of attitude to the world is a visual and intuitive tool used in the synton approach to characterize a person’s worldview. It is depicted as a vertical axis, on which various relationships to the world are plotted. The entire scale is divided into five sections, five worlds, which are conveniently represented as five different tones (for a discussion of the criteria for distinguishing just such worlds, see Life Worlds and Axes of the Scale of Attitude to the World):
- «The world is beautiful» — life is wonderful, we love and we are loved.
- «The world is good» — well, it’s hard to talk about love, but life is friendly to us, as we are to it.
- «The world is ordinary» — the world is on its own, I am on my own. We are not friends with the world and we do not quarrel.
- «The world is hostile» — life is hostile to me, but I have a chance to be the winner!
- «The world is terrible» — it is impossible to win in this world, my fight is lost. I’m still alive, but only for now. I can be crushed at any time…
There is no direct correspondence between this or that emotion (feeling, state) and the type of such perception of the world, many emotions and emotional states can be mixed, belong simultaneously to different worlds. It seems that a person decides what world he is in, and his emotions and feelings are only one of the circumstances. People are like children, and they treat the world as they treat their parents in childhood. They tend to call the world hostile if it has taken something from them, and if they are used to being afraid and not used to overcoming difficulties, they begin to cry that the world is terrible.
The scale of attitude to the world is used to assess the emotional state and compare the degree of mental well-being of a person. The higher the tone, the more pronounced a person’s spiritual well-being and success. The lower the tone, the more the person is insecure and prone to phobias.
If you have a choice, it is hardly worth contacting people who have a tone significantly lower than yours. If you are a manager, you most likely will not hire low-tone employees who see enemies everywhere, distrust, make excuses and fear: they scare customers away and create a lot of conflicts around them. They are difficult to work with.
These two married couples cannot understand each other, because one is cool (the World is Beautiful), and the other is hard (the World is hostile). They are far from each other, they are in different worlds.
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If the world is friendly for you, the world is good, you don’t have to marry a man (marry a girl) with the worldview “the world is hostile”: first of all, it will be difficult for you to understand each other, the same situation will cause you significantly different estimates. You will annoy each other.
All children are born against a bright background of positive: there are so many new, cool, unknown things around! Most older people perceive the world as hostile, if not scary. Is it possible to change this pattern and maintain a high emotional tone throughout life? Yes, you can. And how to raise your own emotional tone? — see «How to develop positive.»
Is it possible to raise the people around on this scale? — If people want or at least do not resist, it is possible. The easiest way is to place a person in an environment of bright and cheerful people, for example, invite them to Sinton. However, it should be taken into account that for a person with the “hostile world” attitude, companies with an active, friendly and bright attitude are perceived hard, this is not internally close to him, and such relationships may not seem sincere to him. There are certain rules on how to lift people with a low emotional tone — up. The main rule is to take small steps, gradually.
Any experiences and emotions are considered sincere as long as they are within the same world. Inside the Beautiful World, you can express different emotions: joy, delight, admiration, keen interest — all this will be sincere. But if a person is at the level The world is good, then these emotions will no longer be sincere. Moreover, the world is ordinary and emotions of a highly joyful tone are incompatible. See The Emotional Tone Scale and Sincerity
The Emotional Tone Scale and Romanticism
On the scale of attitude to the world, the romantic state is an unstable beat between the world is beautiful and the world is ordinary with attacks quite down.
I remember, I know that the world can be beautiful, but I see that the world is gray and ordinary. I will be at enmity with this, but if it is always, I may even fall into apathy.