The Modeling Tutorial: 17 Essays on How Experience Works

by David Gordon, Graham Dawes

Ever ask yourself, "How does this person do that?" ...and wish that you could do it as well? At the beating heart of everything we do is an essential set of patterns. Modeling is the process of eliciting those essential patterns. The Modeling Tutorial puts in your hands a clear and practical process for accessing these otherwise hidden patterns of thinking and behaving. Every chapter builds on the concepts and skills of the previous one, so that by the end you will have a detailed and thorough picture of the process. But The Modeling Tutorial goes beyond merely knowing what to do. In these 17 essays you get more than a detailed explanation of the process of modeling. They plunge you into the subtle processes of human experience, elevating you into someone who has a deep understanding of how human experience actually works. The Modeling Tutorial is illustrated throughout with examples from every day experience to help you grasp both the nuts and bolts of modeling and its underlying concepts. Also included is an annotated transcript of a complete elicitation, and a demonstration of translating that information into a model. If you want to know what makes us tick, The Modeling Tutorial is it.

472 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 6, 2017

About the author

David Gordon was born in New York City. He attended Sarah Lawrence College and holds an MA in English and Comparative Literature and an MFA in Writing, both from Columbia University, and has worked in film, fashion, publishing, and pornography. His first novel, The Serialist, won the VCU/Cabell First Novel Award and was a finalist for an Edgar Award. His work has also appeared in The Paris Review, Purple, and Fence among other publications.