(10-14-2019, 12:47 AM)findingme Wrote: Greenduck,
I'm just an observer in this discussion, and I desired to share something with you I discovered while on LTU5. About 2 months back, I was taking inventory of my emotional status while at work, where I see most of my results. My interactions with people tell me of my own insecurities and places I'm stuck.
And damn, I saw one. It didn't feel good, I'd been doing it a long time, and.......surprisingly, I wanted to be free of it. My hangup? I was habitually making things harder. Part of me felt "smarter" doing things in ways which noone else did (yep, it's true)......but doing things like this pushed people away. They stopped trying to point out simpler and quicker ways to do the job.
I remember approaching my peer coworker, who I'd frustrated countless times doing it "my" way. And I just spit it out, hoping for some grace. He surprised me since he held himself back, and he shared that yes, I was making our job harder. Me admitting it helped our relationship, but it freed me from the belief that my old ways were the ONLY way (or best way) to do something. LTU did this for me. In my own confession, I'm not sure LTU5 got as much credit while running it as it deserved. I ran it for many months, and some old habits (like believing some things had not changed) festered. I'll be thinking about this today, as many things actually did change.
But I wrote you seeking to know if you've had similar insights while on LTU5. I sense a familiar "stubbornness" in your writings
Haha this made me laugh. Thanks for sharing. But yes, I have noticed that I have had some kind of pride in that I would always find a new way of doing things in a "blue ocean-way" (if you aren't familiar with it i recommend you to look it up, it's a pretty interesting business phenomenon). But I have realized it's often better to start approaching a problem in a more traditional way and keep your creative way of dealing with it in the backwater. I think has to do with that you put together what you do with who you are to much, and doing stuff the way "everybody does it" make you "just like everyone" and you loose your uniqueness or whatnot. But always trying to do stuff your own way make you 1) hard to cooperate with (Which i also have noticed and tried overcome and use more common sense way and 2) make you not listen as good at lessons from other people as you otherwise can. End of the line I think it's a self-esteem issue. Thanks for pointing it out and happy to hear about your progress!
