How and Why to Develop It

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Most people, even very smart ones, think in automatic ways because it is simpler and supposedly safer. This is our evolutionary heritage, and it worked quite well in the last century, when the rhythm of life was much slower and our parents, grandparents could plan their lives 10 years ahead.

But today, when information becomes outdated as soon as it reaches our feed, automatisms no longer work, but on the contrary, they hinder us on the way to our goals. Now, in order to remain in demand on the labor market, we have to develop flexibility and creativity in our thinking. Olga Sakharova, psychologist, PCC ICF coach, head of el salvador whatsapp phone number the Coaching department at the online school Psychodemia (part of Ultimate Education), tells us how to do this.

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Only the lazy do not talk now about how much the modern world has changed and how difficult it is for us to keep up with the changes that have already happened and will happen. And also about the fact that these endless changes are a serious source of stress for us. But since we are not able to stop everything that is happening in the world so that stress does not kill us, changes should move from the category of stress to the category of adventures or at least become part of our development plan.

Simply put, the modern world poses new challenges to us: we must not only be smart, but also be able to manage our thinking processes. There is nothing metaphysical or transurfing in these words: everything is based on understanding how our thinking works.

One of the most important foundations of our thinking is a belief system based on previous experience and operating automatically (that is, it always works, even when we are not aware of it). Every day since birth, we have received some experience (from communication with parents to the taste of food), and it received an internal assessment - is it good or bad.

Mom smiles - that's good. Mustard burns - that's bad. All this experience was stored in the recesses of consciousness. And it is this and the simple system of "good-bad" that are the system-forming ones when we make most of the decisions in life, especially those that need to be made quickly or in conditions of significant uncertainty.

As long as our world was relatively stable and our mothers and grandmothers could plan their lives 10-20 years ahead, everything was fine. Or even you and I 10 years ago, when we planned our lives and careers five or six years ahead, we got by just fine with our automatic decision-making system.

But let's answer ourselves honestly to the question of how many decisions we are now forced to make quickly and/or in conditions of absolute uncertainty. The absolute majority.

Our automatic system has another interesting property that is currently working against us. Everything that has already been experienced (even negative, by the way) is good or at least better than what is new and has never been.