Environment and Triggers: Warrior Mind Podcast #302
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In this episode of the Warrior Mind podcast I’ll be cover the Environment from the 7 levels of change (Vision, Mission, Values, Beliefs, Capabilities, Behaviors and Environment)
According to Marshall Goldsmith (from the book Triggers):
It’s the Environment and Triggers
- Most of us go through life unaware of how our environment shapes our behavior. When we experience “road rage” on a crowded freeway, it’s not because we’re sociopathic monsters.
- It’s because the temporary condition of being behind the wheel in a car, surrounded by rude, impatient drivers, triggers a change in our otherwise placid demeanor.
- We’ve unwittingly placed ourselves in an environment of impatience, competitiveness, and hostility — and it alters us.
- Even when we’re aware of our environment and welcome being in it, we become victims of its ruthless power.
- We think we are in sync with our environment, but actually it’s at war with us. We think we control our environment, but in fact it controls us. We think our external environment is conspiring in our favor — that is, helping us — when actually it is taxing and draining us.
- It is not interested in what it can give us. It’s only interested in what it can take from us
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It’s the Environment and Triggers
- It’s not all bad. Our environment can be the angel on our shoulder, making us a better person. Much of the time, however, our environment is the devil.
- That’s the part that eludes us: Entering a new environment changes our behavior in sly ways, whether we’re sitting in a conference room with colleagues or visiting friends for dinner or enduring our weekly phone call with an aging parent.
- Some environments are designed precisely to lure us into acting against our interest.
- That’s what happens when we overspend at the high-end mall. Other environments are not as manipulative and predatory as a luxury store.
- But they’re still not working for us.
- Consider the perennial goal of getting a good night’s sleep. Sleep should be easy to achieve.
- We have the motivation to sleep well. We understand how much sleep we need.
- And we have control: Sleep is a self-regulated activity that happens in an environment totally governed by us — our home. So why don’t we do what we know is good for us?
It’s the Environment and Triggers
- It can be blamed on a fundamental misunderstanding of how our environment shapes our behavior.
- It leads to a phenomenon that Dutch sleep researchers at Utrecht University call “bedtime procrastination.”
- We put off going to bed at the intended time because we prefer to remain in our current environment — watching a late-night movie or playing video games or cleaning the kitchen — rather than move to the relative calm and comfort of our bedroom.
- It’s a choice between competing environments.
- The environment that is most concerning is situational.
- It’s a hyperactive shape-shifter. Every time we enter a new situation, with its mutating who- what- when- where and- why- specifics, we are surrendering ourselves to a new environment — and putting our goals, our plans, our behavioral integrity at risk. It’s a simple dynamic: a changing environment changes us.
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