They say a diamond is just a piece of charcoal that has learned to handle pressure exceptionally well.
The Churning, Inner Leadership is a book that shows us how we, too, can learn to handle the pressures of living through this time of change in ways that make us stronger and more valuable.
To achieve this, the book shows us how to improve our abilities at seven key skills or competencies:
- Remain calm, centred, and grounded, even in a crisis, deeply connected with who we are at our best and what matters most to us
- Make clearer sense of the situations we find ourself in
- Find more options to move forward
- Choose the option that is best for us, even when the situation is unclear and the outcome is uncertain
- Use our purpose and values to maintain our direction, inspire us to do more, and help us adapt faster to a changing world
- Describe our chosen way forward in a way that inspires not only us but the people around us
- Maintain that enthusiasm and inspiration as we move forward
For the next 100 days or so, this blog will bring you key extracts from the book, one per day: one post from the Introduction, one from Chapter 1, one from Chapter 2, and so on.
If you haven’t read the book this will give you a sense of what it is about, including many (but not all) of the more than 30 tools it contains.
And if you have read the book, these posts will act as daily reminders that help to support and maintain your practice and strengthen your abilities.
The more you master these seven skills, the more antifragile you will become: able not only to survive the changes that are happening but actually to use these changes to become stronger and more valuable — to become the diamond you most want to become.
Do you want to become better at handling change to achieve more of whatever matters most to you?
Adapted from Inner Leadership: a framework and tools for building inspiration in times of change.
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(And remember: you can’t learn to swim just by reading about swimming, you also need to do the practice.)
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