You Are NOT Your Behavoirs
Josh Perry
I coach leaders and teams to elevate their personal performance for greater impact.???? Take my free Performance Audit???? | Pro-BMX Athlete (retired) & ?? Tumor Warrior | Golf Enthusiast
People are NOT their behaviors.
Our perception of who we think we are is an interpretation of what we believe to be true about ourselves and the world.
Our behaviors are an extension of our Internal Representation of the world we live in and who we believe we are.
Our Internal Representation of reality is affected by our state of being and our physiology, and vice versa.
This creates an “experience” and we use words to label our experience which can be looked at as our “encoding” for whom we think we are.
Any change in our Internal Representation, state of being, or physiology changes our behavior and creates a whole new experience.
This is important because the words we use do not describe the world we live in, they create it through emotional changes to our state of being and our encoding of who we think we are, which all alter our behavior.
Our perception of reality is based upon or interpretation of the events and experiences we see and feel.
Our unconscious mind takes in 200 million bits of information per second through our sensory inputs and distills that into 126 bits of information for us to consciously comprehend via deleting, distorting, or generalizing what information we take in based upon the “filters” we see the world through.
These filters are based upon past experiences and the latter information building an “identity” or who we think we are in the world.
When a behavior is changed, the encoding is challenged.
This is where “imposter syndrome” comes in or “mid life crisis”.
Our identity becomes challenged and we’re uncomfortable as we’ve identified as that older version of ourselves for so much time.
I went through this after leaving BMX until I learned what I just shared and acted upon it.
I’m now confident in all I do knowing what I decide to do consciously and unconsciously is an extension of who I believe I am rather than the other way around.
Are you experiencing an inner conflict of identity or imposter syndrome?
If so, know that you’re NOT alone.
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