We Are All Creators

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Human beings are meaning-making machines; we are constantly creating and giving meaning to the events, things, and even the behavior of people we encounter in our lives. The meaning we give to these experiences are like contracts we make with ourselves, in that once we accept them, they stick with us and have consequences.

These agreements, including the meaning we give to our work, become hardwired into the subconscious mind and emerge again and again as beliefs that inform, and even control, our thinking and behavior. Some estimates suggest that human beings operate 90% to 95% of the time from our subconscious mind; in other words, from our past decisions about things, not necessarily from the reality of now.

The point here is that, if we're not careful, our past involuntary agreements about the meaning of things can have us living from beliefs that are not accurate, but only comfortable reflections of decisions we’ve made about a past experience, or other people.

Such living from our past, and what we already think we know, is a dangerous strategy for navigating such a dynamic world. It's also leaving untouched all the diversity that exists, that when combined with our own perspectives, can create awesome things in community with others.

Navigating the world with an accurate understanding of situations and people is challenging; none of us does it well alone. We need others to help us see what we don't see. In this way, we are better together. Like grapes grown to be made into wine. Wine gets its flavor from the soil in which the grapes are grown. We are all grown in different soil, as any vineyard has some variation in soil type. Yet, it's the diversity of what all the individual grapes produce in their interaction with the soil that puts the "fine" into "fine wine".

In the same manner, we all need to be careful that we don't block out the beauty and flavor that our diverse perspectives can create together. Don't stay stuck in your past, and don't strive for sameness in working with others. It's nature's ability to blend diversity into a beautiful whole that is so jaw dropping and inspiring. I suggest that's something to work to model in our organizations.

Align on values and get good at understanding the diversity of perspective within your team, department, or organization. That approach creates mental/cultural soil (the meaning we give to things) which can flavor everyone's thinking, perceptions, and ultimately, behavior; which then produces the results you will experience at work and in life.

Perhaps each of us is more like a fine wine than we thought. Pass me another glass...

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Excerpt from How To CRUSH That Career Thing, by Kirk Anderson, www.sfcsuite.com

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