Trying to encourage ourselves, we fill ourselves with vital, challenging, energizing words. Opportunity, new paradigm, reinvention.
You have to adapt to this new scenarioto these alternative ways of working, of relating, of living. But there is no way to do it all at once and in just one way; we need to make subtle adjustments. And even the most dramatic and unappealable decisions can be reversed at any time.
The greatest effort is not to accept reality or face challenges, but to review every day, sometimes every hour, our ways of adapting. Paradoxically, effort is of no use. What makes us more fit for this slippery world is relaxation. With the body, emotions and mental network relaxed so that new combinations and dynamics can appear.
Actions and attitudes that were useful at one time have already fulfilled their function and there is no point in maintaining them. We will have to adapt again and again, monitoring, measuring, modulating what we feel, what we think, what we do.
But it is not an individual experience, we are all in the same dance and we have to know how to move, to follow the rhythm, so as not to collide or become isolated. So as not to get off the dance floor.
And beyond our fragile little glass box, we must continue to be aware of the movements that are being generated around us. In communion with the social and global context, the risks, the successes, the trends. Perceiving at every moment where others are and how they move.
As in a dance or playing an instrument, with agile, flexible feet and hands, each time regaining that unstable balance that represents continuous movement. On tiptoe or stomping, with barely outlined gestures or with a great display of energy and breadth.
The data of reality do not come to us in an Excel spreadsheet, but rather they are out there, disordered and without labels. With a perception that is almost more corporal than mental, we record what is happening due to the tensions that it generates in our muscles at any given moment.
Light and intuitive, we can only read between the lines.
But sometimes the logical mind betrays us and we insist on following the linear path we had set out for ourselves. Aiming at predetermined goals, we lose track of the multiple interactions that are taking place. In such cases, our attention is so focused that we end up with a tubular view of reality, looking at the world through a keyhole.
Condemned to resort to an operative and efficient functioning, we lose the ability to process the abundance that challenges us. Harmonious and subtle movements fade away and in our rigidity we become dogmatic, blind to reality and ruthless with those who think differently.
In this uncertain, ambiguous, complex scenario, the operating system is insufficient and inadequate. Today we need to be more connective and associative, integrative, permeable, with emotional and social intelligence.
Experience is no longer enough because what is new is unlike anything we know. What we know is no longer useful and becomes an obstacle to deciphering what is to come.
As it says Margaret Heffernanbusinesswoman and writer, in her new book “Uncharted, How to navigate the future”: “In an environment that defies so many predictions, efficiency will not only not help us, but specifically undermines and erodes our capacity to adapt and respond.”
And what is efficiency? Linearity, pure logic, the foolishness of insisting on the established path.
The mandate to be efficient leads us to the loss of mental, emotional and physical plasticity. That is why we need to take off that heavy armor and get used to understanding and processing ambiguity.
So, free from conventional tiesWe will be open to surprise, to the disruptive and unstable. We will dare to experiment, to try, to create. We will be able to unlearn and learn new things. We will tolerate disorder, with less planning and more ingenuity, which is more valuable than efficiency today. Because things will never be exactly as we planned them. And curiosity will accompany us to imagine possibilities and alternatives.
In the world of work we are all changing and we will continue to do so. We will have to let go of old models and try new options. Some changes will be temporary and others permanent.
There will be those who only need to redesign themselves, transform the ways of interacting, communicating, positioning their products or services. They will only have to adjust the choreography.
Others will have to reinvent themselves. And this may even mean changing their activity completely. They will have to learn other steps, listen to other music, and take on new stages.
In this dance, the straight lines of technique are intertwined with the sinuous and undulating lines of intuition, empathy and creativity. Small steps are interspersed with wide, intense movements, jumps and pirouettes.
It is a fusion, in which experience and knowledge are important, but it also requires great versatility. And the talent and audacity to improvise. The world is no longer linear and each of our movements will contain the seed of the exponential.
Doctor, psychoanalyst, creator of the Network Thinking model and author of the book “The prodigious plot. Variations in network key”.
Source: Ambito
David William is a talented author who has made a name for himself in the world of writing. He is a professional author who writes on a wide range of topics, from general interest to opinion news. David is currently working as a writer at 24 hours worlds where he brings his unique perspective and in-depth research to his articles, making them both informative and engaging.
