Becoming antifragile is about more than just surviving change — it’s about learning to use change to become a stronger and more inspired version of yourself.
Achieving this does not happen overnight. Instead, we gradually need to become better at two things: knowing what matters most to us and putting it into practice. Then, the clearer we are about what matters, the more inspired we will feel, so the better we will put it into practice, and the more inspired we will feel, and so on…
The way we become antifragile is by creating a self-reinforcing loop that starts small and gradually expands.
To help you achieve this, The Churning, Inner Leadership provides a framework and a set of tools for progressively developing your abilities at seven key skills or competencies:
- The first is your ability to remain calm in a crisis, strongly connected with what matters most to you and who you are at your best. This brings you the stability that gets you through the storms — and when times are calm it expands your ability to reach out and influence the world.
. - In a world that no longer works the way it used to, it is easy to make mistaken assumptions. So our second key skill is to learn to spot these mistaken assumptions and make clearer sense of what is really happening — rationally and by drawing on our unconscious intuition.
. - Once you’ve understood the situation, your third skill is the ability to find more opportunities in a situation. This expands the range of options available to you, boosts your morale, and puts you back in control — all of which make you more likely to succeed.
. - The fourth key skill is knowing how to choose the way forward that aligns best with your long term goals, even when you’re not sure what is happening or what the outcome of your actions might be.
. - The fifth core competence is to get clear about your purpose and values: understanding these will make you more focused, effective, enthusiastic and adaptable, no matter is happening around you.
. - The sixth key skill is the ability to describe your chosen way forward in ways that inspire you and the people around you to do what needs to be done.
. - And your seventh skill or competency is your ability to increase your momentum as you move forward, managing the transitions that will inevitably arise.
Together, these seven skills, competencies, or abilities will make you clearer about what matters most to you and increase your ability to achieve it. They will form the Inner Leadership that will enable you to use this time of change to become a stronger and more inspired version of yourself.
On a scale of 0-10 how strongly do you rate yourself at these seven competencies today? Which do you feel strongest at? Which are your weaknesses? Where would you gain the most benefit by improving today?
Adapted from Inner Leadership: a framework and a set of tools for building inspiration in a time of change.
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