Posted by Luke in I was in the car driving home from work when I suddenly realised something. Big actions often come from deep seated unconscious feelings that we really don’t understand. Think about the decision to have children, was it a rational choice or something that you felt you had to do. What about the choice to follow a career in the field you are in? Was there something about that kind of job that just spoke to you? A lot of the time the choices we make, especially those from the heart, cause us to take huge actions.
There is a thing called post-hoc rationalisation which I lectured on the other day that says we often take actions and later justify them by making sense of what happened because we don’t really know why we did what we did. Take me for instance. I am attracted to things that are new. No, not shiny things… new things. I like to create stuff and make it. In my job I don’t get much of a chance to do that at present so I have been a bit tired. But, when I am working through something new and ideas are flowing I feel like I have had a fire set under my backside. It’s truly wonderful. Why is that? It’s because deep down that’s me and when I see that in the world it’s me coming out.
As small step we need to begin to pay attention to what we do and trace it back to what we think and then some kind of underlying feeling or emotion. These deep things we ignore are us. I have once heard it put this way you are not what you think about you are the bit behind the thoughts. I think in business we need to pay more attention to these things and take them more seriously. I think this is an interesting topic and I will be posting more about this in the next few days. Thanks for reading.
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