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An presentation generator is disclosed for generating presentations for interacting with a user on a personal topic of, e.g., the user's selection, wherein the presentations assist the user in obtaining a greater awareness of his/her motivations and/or behaviors relating to the topic. In one embodim

An presentation generator is disclosed for generating presentations for interacting with a user on a personal topic of, e.g., the user's selection, wherein the presentations assist the user in obtaining a greater awareness of his/her motivations and/or behaviors relating to the topic. In one embodiment, the presentation generator generates and presents to the user textual observations, questions, and/or statements for the user's consideration. Such presentations use and/or are consistent with textual descriptions obtained from: (a) the results of one or more personality/motivation test results, and (b) user inputs, e.g., regarding the selected topic together with his/her confidence in the validity of such inputs. The invention organizes the textual descriptions so that outputs to the user can be generated from various personality/motivational perspectives thereby assisting the user in viewing the topic of discussion from different perspectives and thereby becoming more aware of his/her biases, motivations, and/or concerns relating to the topic.

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1. A method for generating a presentation that permits an individual to assess perceived values and to enhance personal growth by a computational system operatively configured for entering into a corresponding dialog with each of a plurality of users, the corresponding dialog being for the personal

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A method for generating a presentation that permits an individual to assess perceived values and to enhance personal growth by a computational system operatively configured for entering into a corresponding dialog with each of a plurality of users, the corresponding dialog being for the personal growth and development of the user, comprising of the steps: for each user of the plurality of users, perform the following collections of steps (1) through (12) by employing a computational system operatively configured for entering into a dialog with each of a plurality of users:(1) obtaining and storing via a computer of the computational system, data for each of one or more predetermined user motivations, each motivation identified as a driver of user perceptions for the plurality of users, wherein the data includes a set of one or more words descriptive of each of the user motivations; wherein step (1) includes a step of receiving the data for each of the one or more predetermined user motivations via a computer display of the computational system;(2) for each corresponding portion of the data for the user motivations, additional steps of obtaining and storing, through a computer display of the computational system, a corresponding portion of personal description data for the user, the corresponding portion of the personal description data having a plurality of user specific descriptions, each of the user specific descriptions being both: (A) specific to the user, and descriptive of personal traits describing how to relate to a situation of concern, and (B) related to the corresponding portion of the data for the user motivations, and sufficiently meaningful to the user to assist the user in his/her personal growth and development when the user specific description is presented to the user as an example of the corresponding portion of the data for the user motivations;grouping, for each corresponding portion of the data for the user motivations, the user specific descriptions in the user's corresponding portion of personal description data by a second computational component of the computational system, wherein each of the user specific descriptions is grouped according to: (i) whether the user specific description is more characteristic of the user or less characteristic of the user, and (ii) whether the user is more aware of the user specific description being characteristic of the user or less aware of the user specific description being characteristic of the user, the resulting groups being as (2-a) through (2-d) following: (2-a) a first group for one or more of the user specific descriptions, each such user specific description in the first group describing a corresponding personal attribute that is: (i) more characteristic of the user, and (ii) the user is more aware of the corresponding attribute being characteristic of the user,(2-b) a second group for one or more of the user specific descriptions, each such user specific description in the second group describing a corresponding personal attribute that is: (i) less characteristic of the user, and (ii) the user is more aware of the corresponding attribute, recited immediately above, being less characteristic of the user,(2-c) a third group for one or more of the user specific descriptions, each such user specific description in the third group describing a corresponding personal attribute that is: (i) more characteristic of the user, and (ii) the user is less aware of the corresponding attribute, recited immediately above, being more characteristic of the user, and(2-d) a fourth group for one or more of the user specific descriptions, each such user specific description in the fourth group describing a corresponding personal attribute that is: (i) less characteristic of the user, and (ii) the user is less aware of the corresponding attribute, recited immediately above, being less characteristic of the user;(3) obtaining and storing for each of the user motivations, data indicative of each of a plurality of coping techniques, each coping technique describing a technique for use by the user in relating to another person or situation, wherein for each coping technique, the data therefor identifies a corresponding second set of one or more words describing the coping technique, and for at least some of the coping techniques, their corresponding second set of words are different; wherein a substep is performed of classifying the data indicative of the coping techniques into the following data classifications (3-a) through (3-d):(3-a) a first data classification that includes the data for a first one or more of the coping techniques, wherein for each of the first one or more coping techniques, the data therefor is: (i) associated, in a step of associating, with each of the first and second groups, and (ii) associated with additional data that identifies the coping technique as initiating more activities to change how the user relates to issues involving another person or situation rather than meditatively reflecting on the issues;(3-b) a second data classification that includes data for a second one or more of the coping techniques, wherein for each of the second one or more coping techniques, the data therefor is: (i) associated, in a step of associating, with each of the third and fourth groups, and (ii) associated with additional data that identifies the coping technique as initiating more activities to change how the user relates to the issues involving another person or situation rather than meditatively reflecting on the issues;(3-c) a third data classification that includes data for a third one or more of the coping techniques, wherein for each of the third one or more coping techniques, the data therefor is: (i) associated, in a step of associating, with each of the first and second groups, and (ii) associated with additional data that identifies the coping technique as monitoring and evaluating how the user relates to the issues involving another person or situation rather than initiating activities to change how the user relates to the issues;(3-d) a fourth data classification that includes data for a fourth one or more of the coping techniques, wherein for each of the fourth one or more coping techniques, the data therefor is: (i) associated, in a step of associating, with each of the third and fourth groups, and (ii) associated with additional data that identifies the coping technique as monitoring and evaluating how the user relates to the issues involving another person or situation rather than initiating activities to change how the user relates to the issues;(4) obtaining via the computational system input for a topic identifying a target of concern to the user; performing for each one of the user motivations the following collections of step (5) through (12):(5) outputting to the user a request for the user to input an evaluation as to how the user relates to the target of concern relative to the one user motivation; wherein the step of outputting includes a step of presenting topic related data to the user via a computer display of the computational system to assist the user in his or her personal growth and development;(6) receiving, via the computational system, the evaluation indicative of the user's perception as to how the user relates to the target of concern, and a degree of confidence the user has in the evaluation;(7) ranking, by the computational system, the first, second, third and fourth groups of user specific descriptions, for the one user motivation, using the evaluation and the degree of confidence, wherein the ranking assigns a ranking value for each of the first, second, third and fourth groups, wherein for each of the groups the ranking value therefor is indicative of how well the user specific descriptions of the group in each of the first, second, third and fourth groups relate to the user's perspective of the target of concern for assisting the user in his/her personal growth and development; wherein the step of ranking is performed in response to an input to a computer display of the computational system;(8) determining a primary one of the coping techniques for the one user motivation by the substeps (8-a) and (8-b): (8-a) obtaining a plurality of assignments, for each of the first, second, third, and fourth data classifications for the one user motivation, one of the assignments being a pairing of: (i) the data for one of the coping techniques for the data classification, with (ii) a selected one of the associated groups for the one coping technique, wherein the selection is dependent upon ranking values; and(8-b) selecting the primary coping technique as the coping technique wherein the data therefor is paired with a particular one of the first, second, third, and fourth groups, wherein the particular group is determined according to a result of a predetermined function of the ranking values;(9) generating, via the computational system, a responsive presentation to the user in a non-transitory form that provides the user with topic related information to assist the user in his or her personal growth and development, the responsive presentation including one of: (9-a) the set of one or more words descriptive of the one user motivation;(9-b) one or more words of the user specific descriptions included in the particular group; and(9-c) the second set of one or more words of the data for the primary coping technique;(10) electronically outputting, by the computational system, the responsive presentation to the user as a computer display;(11) electronically receiving a responsive user input inputted into a computer display of the computational system, wherein the responsive user input is a response to the responsive presentation to the user;(12) storing, in non-transitory computer storage, linked data including: the responsive presentation, and the responsive user input, wherein the responsive presentation and the responsive user input are linked together for electronic access by the computational system; andwherein the stored linked data is available for outputting the responsive presentation, and the responsive user input for assisting the user with his/her personal growth and development.