Who from us dares to go into a strange house into the cellar without light in the night. Your hands just feel the walls and you hear unknown strange voices and sounds. It is a scene from a horror movie.
But why is it like this? Because we don't have any control. We don't know what will happen. Maybe there are vicious animals, or even worse, people.
It's our instinct, that says: "Don't go there!"
Yes, perhaps it keeps us alive. But the golden treasures don't lie on the streets.
This image illustrates how important it is to see, what will come.
But in unknown, foggy terrain you don't have this possibility. So a basic program in our brain starts: Don't move! Go behind others!
As I showed in How to face the changes of the world, we are living in a VUCA (Voluntile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambigious) world now.
But the most of us are not used to it. We have learned to live in a linear world. A world with consequences in the meaning of "if this is the precondition, than that is the result". We are used to work on a conveyor belt.
Someone (in most cases the boss) puts the work on the belt and you have to do it. You know all prozesses because you have learned them.
But in a VUCA-world this doesn't fit any more. Your reaction is to work harder and faster and more efficient - but that doesn't help. Someone will turn of your belt, earlier or later.
You get under the weels. You are frustrated with your job. You fear the future, the boss or the other colleagues, because they maybe better, faster and more efficient than you.
I see the following possibilities to go out of this:
- Accept realities.
- Accept changes.
- Go into the fog.
- Jump over your shadow and try something total new.
- Aks your fears, why they are there. Most reasons are based in your childhood. But the danger doesn't exist any more.
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For me it ismportant, that you understand, that the world is changing and old rules don't exist any more. On the one side this is good, on the other side it is hard to accept (at least for the older ones).
Regards, Achim