The words of an old university lecturer, on occasions, still ring in my ears, crossing my thoughts as, on finding out what I do, people expertly tell me about a subject they discovered a short while ago; be kind.

So it happens with people that have read Danny Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow.

It’s not news that one label can cover different processes.

Try talking to someone that studies memory about memory and you will discover a whole new level of minutiae that you were previously unaware of.

But if you have never thought about thinking then it is not surprising that the revelation sparks attention.

For instance, most people can tell by looking in an instance if someone is happy, sad, angry or bored. For most it takes longer and more effort to do a sum without assistance, say 47 multiplied by 6.

Both require “thought” to come to an answer, an Kahneman postulates one is fast and one is slow.

How would we reflect this difference in behaviour in the RoUCa Grid?

From traditional psychology we are given the labels Extraversion from the Five Factor Model (FFM) of personality and Acceptance from Kübler-Ross’ Five Stage of Grief.

In the RoUCa Grid Extraversion is the ratio of Cognitive to Influencing activity. How much an Individual Responds to their Render of the Environment to how predisposed they are to add lotteries to their Render to Recompose the Environment.

Similarly, Acceptance is the ratio of Automatic to Emotional activity. How much an Individual Renders their Environment to their Rejection of an outcome.

Cognitive and Influencing activity is slow; it takes time to do a sum of anticipate an involved set of events.

Automatic and Emotional activity is fast; it takes barely any time to withdraw your hand from a hot surface or respond when resources are under threat.