How to Channel your Mind During an Emergency
€Sources of Power' by Gary Klein is a remarkable book written on how human minds behave and act generally vis- -vis in moments of crisis. How does experience and instinctive capacity come in the middle!
Often, a small decision leads to massive results. Had Hitler not invaded Poland, the 2nd World War wouldn't happen. A soccer striker hits the crossbar twice, gets disappointed and resultantly, the other team gets stronger. These are called turning, pressure or leverage points. Archimedes once suggested that he would lift the Earth if he got a pole and a fulcrum in the right place. Even in your life, you might have picked your eventual career on spur-of-the-moment advice or realization.
You learn in time
It would need a superlative brain to calculate all options and then act when an emergent situation beckons. You make mistakes, learn from them, and gradually reach a stage when your first instinct in a crisis is correct-most. This is much like a required reflex and gets better with time and experience.
In crucial jobs like firefighting or surgery, you get proper training. However, no one can train you to think out of the box. Thus, while you behave according to set patterns generally, everyone acts differently when the patterns change. Those better with mental simulation and composure will tackle the new situation better. Period!
Logic behind instincts
The first crop would surely have grown by accident, while the first CPR process would have occurred instinctively. It is necessary to note that there is a method even in accidental or instinctive discovery. This world is full of non-linear events and sooner or later; someone ought to make discoveries. Suppose, there is a diamond lying on an uninhabited patch of land. Now for the eventual finder, it might be a piece of luck or an incident, but in the course of time, that was bound to happen.
Most monumental inventions or discoveries have been based on instincts. Gugliemo Marconi pondered over the noise of thunder and felt that there would be waves in the atmosphere that could be translated into sound. Radio was invented as a result. The same goes for television and phone.
Horses for courses
Your instinct teaches you the best possible natural step. This helps a cat to find the rat and a rabbit to fool the wolf. However, you won't ever be able to break the fold if you take the first step every time. Sometimes, you have to go for optimized approach. Suppose, if ideas for the betterment of your company is concerned, you would assess the options, check each feasibility and returns and advance then only.
You need to inquire the reason whenever there is a break in pattern. Why do two grocery shops with same infrastructure and products show grossly different profit and loss sheets? Proper understanding of the subject concerned also helps you. Therein lies the
Summary of Sources of Power.
Often, a small decision leads to massive results. Had Hitler not invaded Poland, the 2nd World War wouldn't happen. A soccer striker hits the crossbar twice, gets disappointed and resultantly, the other team gets stronger. These are called turning, pressure or leverage points. Archimedes once suggested that he would lift the Earth if he got a pole and a fulcrum in the right place. Even in your life, you might have picked your eventual career on spur-of-the-moment advice or realization.
You learn in time
It would need a superlative brain to calculate all options and then act when an emergent situation beckons. You make mistakes, learn from them, and gradually reach a stage when your first instinct in a crisis is correct-most. This is much like a required reflex and gets better with time and experience.
In crucial jobs like firefighting or surgery, you get proper training. However, no one can train you to think out of the box. Thus, while you behave according to set patterns generally, everyone acts differently when the patterns change. Those better with mental simulation and composure will tackle the new situation better. Period!
Logic behind instincts
The first crop would surely have grown by accident, while the first CPR process would have occurred instinctively. It is necessary to note that there is a method even in accidental or instinctive discovery. This world is full of non-linear events and sooner or later; someone ought to make discoveries. Suppose, there is a diamond lying on an uninhabited patch of land. Now for the eventual finder, it might be a piece of luck or an incident, but in the course of time, that was bound to happen.
Most monumental inventions or discoveries have been based on instincts. Gugliemo Marconi pondered over the noise of thunder and felt that there would be waves in the atmosphere that could be translated into sound. Radio was invented as a result. The same goes for television and phone.
Horses for courses
Your instinct teaches you the best possible natural step. This helps a cat to find the rat and a rabbit to fool the wolf. However, you won't ever be able to break the fold if you take the first step every time. Sometimes, you have to go for optimized approach. Suppose, if ideas for the betterment of your company is concerned, you would assess the options, check each feasibility and returns and advance then only.
You need to inquire the reason whenever there is a break in pattern. Why do two grocery shops with same infrastructure and products show grossly different profit and loss sheets? Proper understanding of the subject concerned also helps you. Therein lies the
Summary of Sources of Power.
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