Consider this: Charles is a manager who is up for a promotion at work. His company would like to help him learn new skills, and change some of the ways he acts, so he will be more successful when he leads more people. Charles’ team members have observed that he often gets aggressive in group settings when someone challenges his ideas, and that causes discord in people. His company informs Charles of this reputation, and then helps him learn to see those circumstances differently and practice a new way of responding. Charles is able to change his behavior, and becomes a successful leader.
6
46 reads
CURATED FROM
IDEAS CURATED BY
Many of us think of personality as one’s set of innate traits that guide their behavior. Personality is, instead, a complex set of processes tied to components of situations. Focusing on behaviors, and the circumstances where they occur, could be much better for change and growth.
“
Similar ideas to A Hypothetical Scenario
Stan Lee, known to those who knew him well as a grand self-mythologizer, had an ability to impress strangers. He himself had superpowers, like great storytelling abilities, or the way he coaxed talent from others. Many compared him to an orchestra conductor, who acts as a human catalyst.
W...
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates