Becoming antifragile is about more than just surviving change — it’s about learning to use change to become a stronger and better version of yourself.
The route to achieving this doesn’t happen overnight. Instead, we need to gradually become better at knowing what matters most to us and putting that into practice. Then, the clearer we are about what matters, the more inspired we feel, so the better we put it into practice, which makes us feel more inspired, and so on…
The way to become antifragile is by creating a self-reinforcing loop.
To help you do 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 the stability that will get 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 did, we can easily make assumptions that no longer apply. So our second key skill is to learn to spot your 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, the third skill is the ability to find more opportunities in your situation. This expands your range of options to move forward, 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 if you aren’t sure what has just happened or what the outcome of your actions might be.
. - The fifth competence is being clear about your purpose and values — understanding these will make you more focused, more effective, and more enthusiastic and adaptable, no matter is going on 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 the seventh skill or competency is the ability to increase your momentum as you move forward, managing the transitions that will inevitably arise.
Together, these seven skills, abilities, or competencies will make you clearer about what matters most to you and increase your ability to achieve that. They will bring you Inner Leadership: the ability to use this time of change to become antifragile.
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 your skills and abilities today?
Adapted from Inner Leadership: a framework and tools for building inspiration in times of change.
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