Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth
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Personal Development for Smart People
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How to Increase Your Authority
Since authority is truth plus power, your alignment with authority will naturally improve as y o u align yourself w i t h those principles, so the exercises from the truth and power chapters will be useful here as well. But since authority is more than the sum of its parts, here are some additional methods to further develop it. O r c h e s t r a t e S m a l l Rebellions To b e c o m e the authority of your life, y o u must b e c o m e comfort- able making independent decisions, whether or not other people agree with y o u . You can't be an authority unless y o u break free of the conditioning effects of peer pressure. O n e of the best w a y s to do so is to intentionally violate others' expectations by orchestrating small rebellions. A small rebellion is an act of free will with minimal negative conse- quences. You're simply asserting your independence, allowing others to react however they wish. Examples include declining an invitation y o u ' d normally accept, styling your hair differently, or putting some unusual posters in your work space. Y o u ' v e d o n e nothing seriously w r o n g , but y o u can expect that others will react. Don't try to justify or explain these rebellions. If anyone asks w h y y o u ' r e behaving strangely, simply tell t h e m y o u felt like it. If they press y o u for a detailed explanation, just reply, "I appreciate your concern, but I'd prefer not to explain my actions right n o w . " W h e n I was a senior in high school, one of my small rebellions w a s to do my math homework with unusual media. I'd turn in my assign- ments in crayon, on a tiny 2" x 2" piece of paper, or on the back of a cereal box. The other students thought I'd g o n e off the deep e n d , but fortunately I had an amazing teacher w h o w a s willing to tolerate my creativity. You haven't really lived until y o u ' v e d o n e calculus in crayon. The idea here isn't to behave like a complete jerk or to violate laws that will land y o u in serious trouble. Your assignment is simply 95 PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR SMART PEOPLE to break the unwritten rules of social conformity, rules y o u aren't re- quired to obey but w h i c h y o u ' v e been blindly following. Small rebel- lions remind y o u that y o u always have a choice and that y o u can remain independent of other people's reactions. Download 1.6 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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