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The Scarcity Self-Awareness
90% of people believe they are self-aware but only 15% of them actually are. That’s an indicative that most people rather than accepting what’s going on, act on denial.
Resisting reality leaves us stuck, while accepting it leads to action. We can't always change what’s happening in the world, but we can change how we react. Accepting reality is focusing our attention on what happened rather than on what we wish should have occurred.
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Creativity
Creativity is about exploring new ways of solving problems. As our reality changes at an accelerated pace, creativity becomes a more widespread requirement in the workplace.
Formal or corporate education must begin to encourage, and train, creativity.
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Resilience
To be resilient is to have the mental strength to live under constant uncertainty and keep trying after failures.
Resilience is a meta-skill that can be developed and it requires experimentation, learning and overcoming failures.
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The Role Of Adaptability
Adaptability requires understanding reality, adapting our mindset and adopting new ways of working.
Adaptability is a competitive advantage — it increases your chances to thrive in change. Research shows that adaptive teams procrastinate less, are more productive, creative and...
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Developing Resilience
Our brains are wired for certainty, in its absence we speculate to fill the gaps. Preparing your team to embrace uncertainty requires rewiring their brains.
Support and coaching are critical to developing resilience — reverse mentoring can help your team members support each o...
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Living In a Transition Era
We live in an era of fast change. Recognizing that the work market is not easily predictable and developing our ability to understand and adapt to continuous change is critical to succeed in the 21st Century.
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Components Of Creativity
- Improvisation: finding an unusual solution to a problem.
- Problem-solving: expanding your thinking to consider anything that could work as a solution.
- Innovation: to adopt a new mindset in order to create an alternative — to embrace experimentation over p...
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“Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results! I know several thousand things that won’t work.”
THOMAS EDISON
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“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
ALVIN TOFFLER
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Skills And Meta-Skills
Skills are temporary; meta-skills are permanent.
Learning a second language gives you a skill, a learned ability. A meta-skill, on the other hand, is your ability to learn new languages. Developing that meta-skill, makes it easier to learn a third or a fourth ton...
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Level 1 Thinkers vs. Deep Thinkers
- Level 1 Thinkers: those who refuse to consider other viewpoints, thought processes, or arguments.
- Deep-Thinkers: those who take a slow, deliberate, focused and reflective approach to solving complex problems.
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Meta-Skills
A meta-skill is a high order skill that allows you to engage with functional expertise more effectively.
It magnifies and activates other skills and is a catalyst for learning and building new skills faster.
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The Role Of Empathy In Organizations
Organizations with a deficit on empathy have inferior collaboration and teamwork.
Being unable to step out of what’s happening to oneself, diminishes our ability to listen and understand other’s point of views. Empathy is vital to embrace diversity of thinking and thrive in chang...
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Three Meta-Skills Required To Develop Adaptability
- Self-awareness: to know oneself and to understand reality and others.
- Creativity: to develop new ideas, improvise and solve complex problems.
- Resilience: ability to face adversity and recover from failure or discover new solutions.
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Self-Awareness
It means having an accurate view of our capabilities and shortcomings and of how others see us. This is critical to develop self-acceptance, what drives self-esteem, thus alleviating conflicts with others.
Self-awareness encourages us to lead ourselves with authenticity and integrity...
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As we mature, we generally become more emotionally stable, agreeable, and conscientious. But chronic job insecurity can stunt this emotional growth.
- The first step to do something about it is to know yourself and be aware of the pitfalls, then cultivate a gro...
6. The Goal of Self-Awareness Is Self-Acceptance
- Self-awareness is wasted if it does not result in self-acceptance. If great self-awareness is coupled with self-judgment, then you’re merely becoming more aware of all the ways you deserve to be judged.
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3. Acceptance of Fate
• Everything in the universe is governed by a rational and providential order, often referred to as "the logos" which determines the events and outcomes of our lives.
• We should accept and embrace the events that occur in our lives, whether favorable or unfavorable; for resistance or being...
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