I had a discussion with a colleague recently who discovered he had a leaning towards the stronger end of black-and-white thinking. In other words, there wasn’t a lot of middle ground for him. It was a bit of a revelation.
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About three years ago, I was on my way to a meeting to do a presentation to the President of our Asian region about my division’s strategy, when I had a phone call to say our house had been burgled.
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Because of advances in technology, the science world is learning more and more every day about how our brain works. I recently watched a short documentary about a young man, Andrew, with cerebral palsy*.
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"I'm open-minded". It can be one of those throwaway lines that people say without really thinking too much about the meaning of it. Yet, if done within its true definition, it can have enormous benefits. Here's a scenario.
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Pollyanna optimism, even when combined with motivation, won’t always deliver results. So what else is needed? Realism.
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It was one of those “town hall” type meetings where everyone in the company shuffles in, takes their seat on time, and then patiently waits for the Managing Director to take his position centre stage.
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Our visual picture of a mentally-tough person is possibly a sports person who is doing something not only physically near impossible, but almost certainly mentally unimaginable. They’re the Everest climber, the Tour de France rider, or the ultra-marathon runner. But you’d be wrong.
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You know, that feeling that at any moment, someone is going to sneak up behind you, tap you on the shoulder and say “I know you have no idea what you’re doing”. It’s a dreadful feeling that has no place in the mind of any tenacious, intelligent, successful, and thriving person. So why is it?
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You often hear it during an interview. You are the interviewer and you ask the candidate if they have any areas for improvement. Often the answer is "I'm a bit of a perfectionist." The interpretation you are meant to make from that, I am guessing, is that they're a high achiever and will therefore do an awesome job in this role.
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I’ve just come back from a big walk. About 230 kms to be precise. My husband and I just finished the Larapinta Trail from end-to-end which is in the Northern Territory stretching down the West McDonnell ranges.
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