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Cutting Through The Confusion: Seeing Good Qualities in People

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To excel as business leaders, we need to cut through the economic confusion, the technology fragility, and the media mayhem. We need to get back to the key ingredient: People .

Intertwined with our spirits and minds, each of us possesses 3 human qualities: Drive, Intelligence, and Self-Control.

Drive

Drive has 2 components: Emotions, which are hereditary vestiges, and Desires, which come in two forms - pleasure/gratification seeking and pain/difficulty avoidance.

Put another way:

  • Emotions are subconscious drives inherent in us, and all other human beings, designed to protect us from danger. Each of us has to figure out how to cope with Emotions.
  • Desires are aimed at achieving positive rewards and avoiding negative outcomes. Desires are conscious drives, specific to each of us and linked to each individual's Intelligence and Self-Control....and Goals.

Intelligence

Intelligence has 4 components:

  • Self-Knowledge, 
  • Innate Talent, 
  • Knowledge about People, and 
  • Wisdom covering self and interactions with other People in Situations. 

Intelligence spans a wide range from the rational/logical to the irrational/emotional...with feelings dancing in between.

Each of us experiences Intelligence 2 ways, and only 2 ways:

  1. by Thinking &
  2. by Taking Action.

Self-Control

Self-Control seems to be a thing played out between spirit and mind....between logic and emotion...between right and wrong...between Good Habits and Bad Habits, between short- and long-term goals. Self-Control is much easier said than done. Coupled with clarity of thought, Self-Control (power of will) presents to each of us an exquisite & life-long series of mind-challenges.

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