Psychology
• Isn’t wanting to look like a
leader, an interference to lead?
• Is a leader allowed to say I
don’t know?
• Who or what leads the leader?
• Is it always clarity that leads
him? Or him wanting what’s
best? Or is it fear?
• Can it be doubt which leads
to over-control or is it, instead,
many assumptions? Is it doing it
as it was done before?
than a leader of his own life?
• What would happen if people
were treated as the leaders they
are indeed?
• Would they start to think
differently, make different
choices and recognising that,
start to be responsible for their
own life?
The point Tim makes is that
efficiency can be taught and it
goes on like so until someone
says “we did it like that 20 years
ago and it needs to change”. An
effective leader needs, firstly, to
be free and to be in charge of
his own life, to get his job and
the position he seeks. It makes
it, then, his choices and his
responsibilities. Which leads
to the point that every single
person, in charge of his own life,
is a leader in his own life.
How do we tap into our
natural potential for learning,
performance, and enjoyment?
How do we approach anything
so that regardless of how long
we’ve been doing it or how
little we know, it becomes an
opportunity for betterment and
fun? Well, according to Tim,
that calls for the re-definition of
work.
When you take this point
further, you can open up
entirely new questions like :
• Does a leader of a corporation
lead a more demanding job
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February 2015
Tapping into our natural
potential
“Work means doing. If you step
back, you will see that while
work is taking place, some other
things are taking place as well,
things that are not recognised as
work like evolving, learning, or
the opposite. When you become
less like a human, you become
more confused. Any time you
take action, you are either
learning or the opposite of that.
You are moving either between
misery or ecstasy. You are either
terrified, scared or angry or you
are fulfilled, joyous, satisfied.
And you need to see that
knowing beats believing. You
know by direct experience, by
awareness. You need to know
what is going on with you, while
you pay attention to what is
happening outside and you can
learn how to increase awareness
and thereby, increase the clarity
of your choice.”
If you take the time to gain
awareness of what is happening
inside, you will then gain
awareness of what is happening
in others. Your roadmap to
success must, therefore, include
a recognition and a plan around
the two different games we play,
in the experiences we face.
Do you know how your inner
game is affecting your outer
game today?