Development
has a grain
as do
a piece
of wood.
May we take responsibility
for supporting someone
in alignment with their developmental grain
instead of staying stuck blaming them
for our own lack of insight
into their developmental grain.
Tag: Development
Achievement vs Development
If your goal
is to lift weights,
you can achieve that goal
by lifting weights.
But for your muscles to develop
you must put the weights down
and help your muscles
recover.
Without recovery
you may achieve,
achieve,
and achieve
with minimal development
while promoting fatigue
and injury.
What if
our psychology
and our relationships
were like muscles?
Hyper-Empathizing with Our Companies
When we, as parents,
hyper-empathize with our children,
the children’s lives
feel like our own.
Similarly,
When we, as founders,
hyper-empathize with our companies,
the companies’ lives
feel like our own.
So much so
that we’re willing to sacrifice our health
to keep them alive.
Sacrificing our health
to keep our company alive
can produce behaviors critical
to the well-being of our company
In its early stages of development.
But as our company develops
—as do our children—
some of our “sacrificial” behaviors
born out of care
can also stifle its development,
not to mention fuel our frustration,
resentment,
and disappointment,
as we can’t help but take everything personally,
when we hyper-empathize.