Becoming ‘antifragile’ is about more than just surviving change — it’s about using change to become stronger and more valuable.
This doesn’t happen overnight. And it requires us to become better at doing two key things: knowing clearly what matters most to us and putting that into practice.
Then, the clearer you are about what really matters to you, the more inspired you will feel to make it happen, so the better you will put it into practice, which will make you feel more inspired, so that you focus more clearly on what matters most to you, which will make you feel more inspired, and so on…
The Churning, Inner Leadership is a framework and a set of tools that strengthens all these things at once.
It does this by developing your abilities at seven key underlying 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 used to 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 our unconscious intuition.
. - With the situation clearly understood, your third skill is the ability to find more opportunities, even in a crisis. This boosts your morale, expands your range of options, and puts you back in control — all of which makes you more likely to succeed.
. - The fourth key skill is the ability to choose the best way forward for you, even when you have little or no information about what is happening or how things are going to turn out. This enables you to move forward even when things are uncertain, in the direction that matters most to you.
. - The fifth competency is to get clear on your purpose and values. Then 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 might happen in the world.
. - The sixth key skill is the ability to describe your chosen way forward in a way that inspires you and the people around you to do what needs to be done.
. - And the seventh key competence is the ability to build momentum as you move forward, managing the transitions that inevitably arise.
Together, these seven skills, abilities, or competencies of Inner Leadership will make you clearer about what matters most to you and increase your ability to achieve it.
They are the seven steps to becoming antifragile in a time of change.
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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