The LPPC Model

(Page Update 9/28/25)

In 1968, I stood at a crossroads in Sunnyvale, California. College football offers on the table, adrenaline still humming from years on the field, and a television set that kept showing a country on edge: assassinations, protests, war, and a kind of public fever I couldn’t ignore. I asked a question that has steered my life ever since: What the hell is wrong with this crazy world of ours?

Anchor & Purpose

This page exists to present an essential tool I had worked up in two phases: (1) First, the possibility to simply live sanely with that question began during the time I was studying publications on the Perceptual Control Theory (2014). And (2) the necessary ingredient, the Hylozoic worldview, to help enhance my livelihood development (2022). I now utilize Lifespan Performance and Perceptual Control (LPPC) to examine how perception develops, how performance embodies it, and how research and activation maintain the loop's integrity in the real world, both contextually and circumstantially. It's the steering wheel you can actually grip.

Why this page belongs to the Anchor Story: it turns a lifelong question into a method you can apply today. The aspiration is simple: grow consciousness without losing contact with reality; act decisively without abandoning learning.

Why this page lives in Part II: Motion — The Serial Student

Part II on the homepage describes motion as rhythm, time, energy, will, and the sequence of learning. The example: What I call "my ten years of college with no degree period" cycling through majors, cities, and disciplines, testing programs, and discovering principles. That experience also contributed to the creation of the LPPC Model, which is the method that makes conflictive motion livable: it turns serial study into serial loops of development, performance, research, and activation. That is why this page links from the homepage (Part II) and carries its stance of: learn by moving, refine by looping. The esoteric phrase: Energy ever follows thought.

Integrity — The Spiral and Its Four Movements

The loop repeats in context. Nothing floats free of the environment; everything is retested in the actual situation, circumstance, and setting. That is the LPPC promise: you stay grounded while your consciousness grows when the four movements are integrally in morion: Development, Performance, Research, and Activation.

1. DEVELOPMENT — The Upward Arc of Perception

We don’t begin with grand theories. We start with the body’s contact with the world and rise level by level. LPPC articulates this hierarchy plainly:

1–3. Intensity → Sensation → Configuration: Weight, sound, color, edge. Two feet on a wood approach. Ball in hand. The lane has shine; the pins wait. Life has a shape.
4–6. Transition → Sequence → Event: One thing leads to another. Heel-to-toe becomes a 4- or 5-step approach; push-away invites swing; swing invites release. Sequences add up to events you can name.
7–9. Form Invariance → Relationship → Category: You recognize sameness across change (your “best shot” survives different houses). You map relationships—timing, tempo, line, speed, rotation. You form categories—what you adjust first, what you never touch mid-game.
10–12. Program → Principle → System Concept: You run programs (pre-shot routines), you hold principles (alignment over aggression, quiet head over hot hand), and you begin to see the whole—a system you can study, improve, and teach.

Key reminder: the climb is not “once and done.” You revisit lower levels to strengthen higher ones. You touch the whole, then drill back into the details that make the whole real. That is development.

2. PERFORMANCE — Downward Arc that Makes it Real

A model that never hits the floor is just a sketch. Performance is where higher levels earn their keep.

System → Principle → Program: Carry the concept of efficient, repeatable motion into tonight’s match. Let the guiding principle be alignment over effort. Run your program: breathe, set, see the line, go.
Category → Relationship → Form: Pick a category of response (move 2 left / 1 up). Manage relationships (speed down a hair, rotation up a tick). Watch form staying clean across changes.
Event → Sequence → Transition: Feel the micro-transitions in your approach. Tighten the sequence; let the event (shot) register as clean or not—feedback you can trust.
Configuration → Sensation → Intensity: Finish where you began: in the body’s truth. How did it feel? Where was the weight? What did the pins sound like?

Whether on the lanes, in classrooms, at work, or at home, the same arc applies: ideas are put back into action, principles are put back into posture, and categories are put back into choices under pressure.

3. RESEARCH — Ways to Notice What’s True

Research here is not academic only; it is how you learn from your own life.

Set your question: “What changes my pocket hit more: speed or loft?”
Control one variable: Shift speed only; note outcomes.
Record what you see: Small notebook, short words, real numbers.
Check against context: New oil? Late league? Ankle sore? Note it.
Let data correct your pride: What you wanted to be true yields to what is actual.

Do this consistently, and you will build a personal knowledge base. In coaching, and more importantly, in one's life, nothing transforms a human being more quickly than honest self-awareness.

4. ACTIVATION — Ways to Move When You’re “Not Ready”

Activation is the courage to apply what you think you know.

One change per rep: Don’t rebuild your life in a day; change one thing you will actually do today.
Design for friction: Make the new action easier than the old habit.
Time-box the test: Try it for two sessions, then re-assess.
Ship the shot: Take it in public. Pressure teaches the last 10% no drill can.

Action refines perception. Perception guides action. Behavior is the control of perception. Activation keeps you out of theory-land and squarely in your life.

The Coach–Play Perspective (Your Dual Stance)

I use a simple stance to keep the loop honest:

Play: Act in the arena. Sweat, miss, score, repeat.
Coach: Step to the rail. Observe, name, and choose the next experiment.

Sometimes you’re more player than coach. Sometimes more coach than player. Life needs both. When you're attentive, your life demands both. When the player in me is hot-headed, the coach in me slows the breath and keeps the plan. When the coach in me becomes a critic, the player in me reminds him that we learn by doing.

Experience — Why 1965–1985?

In hindsight, my mostly intentional (and perceptually informed) experiences during those two decades are now seen as the signal-dense environmental backdrop for Part II’s Motion — The Serial Student. First, let’s recall that a significant consequence that materialized in 1968 marks a pivotal point: I leave the obvious athletic path and enter a serial study-work dichotomy. Also, from attending to the happenings of the late 1960s through the early 1980s, constant televised events created weekly feedback—pressure, anxiety, and adaptation became strong memories. When I finally began to form the LPPC model (2014), I could hear the mantra of this age in my ear: These times are a-changing. Initially, it was the ramblings of a weak intuition; however, as my lifespan of performance activations progressed and the world continued to move, the final design evolved intellectually. I remember: during these years, Life was my classroom, Energy was my teacher:

1965–1973: Vietnam dominates the news; “outcomes” have visible human costs, such as teenagers being drafted to kill.
1968: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy are assassinated; my anchor question takes root.
1969: The moon landing shows what a coordinated system can accomplish.
1970: Kent State shootings; the danger of misaligned perception and state action.
1973–1974: The Watergate scandal exposes the failure of principle in high office.
1979–1981: Iran hostage crisis; patience and pressure share the same stage.
Early 1980s: Recession and recovery; households become laboratories of adaptation.

These were not trivia points; they were inputs that forced reference perceptions to update and action to adapt. That is the LPPC loop at work: the world presses in, you notice honestly, you act with courage, you learn, you loop.

My Serial‑Student Years (1968 - 1985)

Institutional Studies: engineering, environmental design, business, cultural history, and photography. Five majors plus two years of credit for each equal what I call my ten years of college, no degree period.
Geographies: multiple college towns and university cities; learning diversification in motion.
What stuck: programs that worked under pressure; principles that generalized; the habit of looping.
Early coaching: tutoring teammates (1967–1968) and classmates (1976–1981); discovering the Coach–Play stance.

Why LPPC Matters To Me Today

LPPC has proven to be my answer to seeing a lifespan of performance, development, and consciousness pull on each other like tides. It’s how I’ve worked the same cycle in bowling centers, classrooms, family rooms, and late-night writing sessions.

It gives you a way to handle the “crazy” without becoming it. You can grow up the arc—toward whole systems—and still come down the arc—into practice that holds under pressure. You can research your life without becoming a cynic, and you can act decisively without becoming reckless. The loop protects you from both naïveté and paralysis.

Field Notes: A One-Week LPPC Micro-Plan

Day 1: Research: Define one question you can test this week. Keep it concrete (e.g., “Does a 15-minute morning walk improve my afternoon focus?”).
Day 2: Activation: Put the experiment on your calendar. Do it once.
Day 3 — Development: Name the perception level you’re strengthening (sequence? relationship? principle?).
Day 4: Performance: Apply one principle in a real task. Log sensation and result.
Day 5: Research: Review three notes. What changed? What stayed stubborn?
Day 6: Activation: Adjust one variable. Try again.
Day 7: Integration: Write a three-sentence lesson. Keep one new habit.

Link Back to the Anchor Story

This page is part of the Anchor Story because it shows the method I used to live with the 1968 question. The technique is not mystic. It is daily. It is human. It is how I kept my feet on the approach and my eyes on the whole lane of life.

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