Becoming ‘antifragile’ is about more than just surviving change — it’s about learning to use change to become stronger and more valuable.
This cannot happen overnight. It requires us to repeatedly become better at knowing what matters most to us and putting that into practice.
Then, the clearer we are about what matters most to us, the more inspired we will feel to make it happen, the better we will put it into practice, which will make us feel more inspired, so that we focus even more clearly on what matters most, which then makes us feel more inspired, and so on… It’s a self-reinforcing loop or cycle.
To achieve this, The Churning, Inner Leadership is a framework and a set of tools for 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 you the stability that will get you through the storms — and when times are calm it expands your ability to influence the world.
. - In a world that no longer works the way it once did, it is easy to make assumptions that no longer apply. So the second key skill is to learn to spot these mistaken assumptions and make clearer sense of what is really happening — both rationally and by drawing on your unconscious intuition.
. - Once you’ve understood the situation, the third skill is the ability to look for and find more opportunities to move forward. This expands your options, boosts your morale, and puts you back in control — all of which make you more likely to succeed.
. - The fourth key skill is the ability to choose the way forward that best aligns with your long term goals, even when it’s not clear what is happening or how things are going to turn out.
. - The fifth competence is to become clear about your purpose and values — because the clearer you are about these, the more enthusiasm you will have to keep yourself and the people around you focused, effective, and adaptable no matter what happens in the world.
. - 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 is the ability to increase momentum as you move forward, managing the transitions that 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.
They will enable you 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? Where are you weakest? 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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