This is important.
I’m prone to making mistakes, especially typos. Earlier this week I posted a quote:
“Trying to beat a cunning political rival on their home turf? Chsnge the game instead.”
Then someone kindly pointed out my mistake and I put it right.
Why do I do this? Small screens, big fingers, smaller keyboards and when I check what I have written, I see what I expect to see. To see what is actually typed takes a different mode of thought which bypasses my Reticular Activating System (the part of the brain responsible for finding the evidence to reinforce our beliefs).
Which got me thinking.
This is a great illustration of what we are doing most of the time with our relationships. We are getting waylaid by our beliefs, and when we look out into the political world of work, we see what we expect to see.
If that is gamey duplicitous manipulators, we see gamey duplicitous manipulators – and probably add a few more words for good measure. Our Reticular Activating System working at full tilt.
Your workplace may be full of these characters, or in fact, you may be creating them on a fantasy developed off the back of one mistake, one incident, one wrong deed.
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