Becoming ‘antifragile’ is about more than just surviving change — it’s about using change to become stronger and more valuable.
This doesn’t just happen overnight. And it requires us to become progressively better at doing two key things: becoming clearer about what matters most to us and better at putting that into practice.
Of course, the clearer you are about what matters, the more inspired you feel to make it happen, so the better you put it into practice, which makes you feel more inspired, so you are less distracted by everything else, so focus more clearly on what really matters, and you feel more inspired, and… so on…
The Churning, Inner Leadership is a framework and a set of tools that strengthens all these things at once. And it does this by developing your abilities at seven underlying skills or competencies:
- The first is your ability to remain calm in a crisis, and strongly connected with what matters most to you and who you are at your best. This brings you the stability that will get you through the storms — and when times are calm it expands your ability to influence the world.
. - In a world that no longer works the way it used to it is easy to make assumptions that no longer apply. So the second skill is to learn to spot these mistaken assumptions and make clearer sense of what is happening — both rationally and by drawing on our unconscious intuition.
. - Having understood the situation more clearly, the third skill is the ability to find more opportunities, even in a crisis. This boosts morale, expands your range of options, and puts you back in control — all of which make you more likely to succeed.
. - The fourth key skill is your ability to choose the best way forward for you, even with little or no information about what is happening or how things are going to turn out. This skill enables you to move forward despite the uncertainty, in a direction that aligns strongly with what matters most to you.
. - The fifth competency is to get clearer on your purpose and values. These bring you the enthusiasm, alignment, and continuity that will keep you and the people around you focused, efficient, effective, and adaptable no matter what is happening in the world.
. - The sixth key skill is the ability to describe your chosen way forward in a way that inspires you and other people to do what needs to be done.
. - And the seventh key competence is the ability to maintain and build that momentum as you move forward, by managing the transitions that inevitably arise.
Together, these seven skills, abilities, or competencies of Inner Leadership will make you clearer about what matters most to you and increase your ability to achieve that. They are the seven steps to becoming antifragile in a time of change.
On a scale of 0-10 how strongly do you rate yourself at these seven competencies today? Where are you weakest? Where would you gain the most benefit by improving your skills and abilities today?
Adapted from Inner Leadership: a framework and tools for building inspiration in times of change.
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