• Review the examples provided and write in examples of your own invisible reference points, if you please.

     

  • Footprint

  • Visible Reference Point

  • Invisible Reference Point

  • Fear of spiders
  • You think spiders are creepy.
  • Instinctive avoidance behavior toward poisonous creatures

  • Choice of spouse
  • You're in love.
  • Similarity to a parent

  • Racial prejudice
  • How stupid, bad, and/or different those people are.
  • Tribal instinct, fear

  • Obsessive neatness
  • Things should be in their place.
  • Anxiety

  • Anorexia
  • You're so fat.
  • Feelings of lack of control

  • Promiscuity
  • You need to have sex with many partners.
  • You need intense experiences to feel anything.

  • Obesity
  • You can't control your eating habits.
  • Your Hairy Ancestor's famine survival instincts.

  • Drug use
  • You like being high.
  • You prefer not to deal with life as an adult

  • Workaholic behavior
  • You want to be rich and famous.
  • You have to achieve to feel worthy

  • Footprint

  • Visible Reference Point

  • Invisible Reference Point

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