This week I have been trialling a tenacity training with part of the team.
The premise behind it is to help the team become more tenacious and thick skinned by really understanding the reason why we shy away from confrontation and how we can remain in challenging situations when its ethically right to do so even when part of us wants to move away.
Part of the training explains that we have so many primordial hangups about how we are perceived by others, shame embarrassment, fear of reprisals even ‘’ what does that person think of me ?’’ even crops up.
As I listened to Jordan B Peterson give a talk this week he said something very much on topic….
You are a fool when you try something new but you are more of a fool if you don’t try it
You have to be fallible in order to improve.
He was explaining that doing anything new YOU ARE going to make a fool of yourself , you are going to make rookie mistakes…. But the more that you give a s*** what people think the less inclined you are going to be to move into new ground and improve.
So ask yourself this weekend how true is it that people will judge you IF you fail?
And if people do…. would come from a place of smallness on their part?…and if so that’s a big problem for them not you
So where are you stopping yourself from appearing the fool and how is that holding you back from the person you could be ?
Happy Friday