{"id":8096,"date":"2022-03-12T09:21:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T17:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/?p=8096"},"modified":"2024-02-01T07:41:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T15:41:47","slug":"narrative-psychology-timelocks-optionlocks-and-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/narrative-psychology-timelocks-optionlocks-and-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrative Psychology | Timelocks, Optionlocks, and Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is an excerpt from the transcript of a class I gave in narrative psychology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, if we don\u2019t have any way of measuring when it\u2019s going to happen, then we get nervous if we can\u2019t see progress, because there\u2019s nothing to measure progress by.\u00a0 So, when we have something we\u2019re waiting for, we want there to be either a timelock or an optionlock which ever happens first, which makes it even better.\u00a0 Because, if you have timelock, then you are saying all I have to do is count the hours, minutes and seconds until the film is released, and then I will see it, because I know where the screening is going to be.\u00a0 A Star Trek picture comes out released November 18th or whatever, \u2026.then you say, O.K. well, I\u2019m going to count down until the movie is released and see it.\u00a0 What an optionlock is, all that has to happen is I have to meet these requirements, and these requirements could be getting pieces to something, or learning something, or whatever it is , but it doesn\u2019t matter how long it takes, it\u2019s when you get all the pieces together and every time you get a new piece, you can see that progress has been made towards the goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the complete transcript <a href=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/deep-narrative-theory-dramatica-class-1-7-1995\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an excerpt from the transcript of a class I gave in narrative psychology. But, if we don\u2019t have any way of measuring when it\u2019s going to happen, then we get nervous if we can\u2019t see progress, because there\u2019s nothing to measure progress by.\u00a0 So, when we have something we\u2019re waiting for, we want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[33,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-dramatica-theory","category-narrative-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paauzo-26A","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8097,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096\/revisions\/8097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}