Reply To: Exercise 5: Write Others’ Beliefs and Write Society’s Beliefs
Leadership Step by Step Exercise 5:
Other Peoples’ Beliefs:
Sales is an exchange between two parties each getting something they want.
Sales is getting someone to do something they don’t want to do.
Objects to be donated must be whole or fully usable as is in order to be donated.
Projects should be worked on one at a time to focus energy and intention.
High level insults do not carry profanities.
Reinvesting a portion of benefits received through referrals back into the relationships is the human or courteous thing to do.
Walking 35 minutes to dinner will help work up an appetite.
Walking after eating helps regulate blood sugar absorption.
Eating until we are stuffed is living the good life.
If you don’t help someone achieve their greatest success, you are evil.
Challenging someone in public to agree with me makes them feel pressure to agree, especially if I have more experience, wealth, status, etc.
It’s okay to get triggered and act my emotions out towards someone.
Being liked, popular, or good-looking is useless unless you produce some results and/or value.
People who fly are fake traveling.
Traveling with a luggage is simply going to a place that was made for little wheels, not real traveling.
Flying to a place holds no value and is a detriment to
Mentioning a memory 15 years ago and over glorifying it will help to make us close.
Societal Beliefs:
Sales transactions are generally pushy and undesired.
Showing your anger is giving your power away.
Flying is normal and is okay.
Overeating is normal and is a symbol of general well-being.
Wasting food is okay.
People like stuff.
Did you notice any trends? No
How did identifying beliefs feel?
It was freeing. Identifying others’ beliefs meant that I didn’t have to adopt them.
Did you feel like you developed a skill? Not one that I didn’t already have.
How accurate do you think you were? About 90%
Did you feel differently about people when you thought of their beliefs?
Depends. I noticed how strongly people felt convicted of their beliefs. People who seemed emotionally less mature seemed to feel compelled to have others adopt their beliefs or felt strongly about the validity of their beliefs. This made me feel like they were less credible due to the use of high emotions.
Does reading peoples’ beliefs make you think differently about leadership?
Not really. I’ve always felt that people felt strongly of their own beliefs and wanted others to approve of them. That hasn’t really changed from this exercise.
Where and how might you apply your experience in the rest of your life?
Probably all the time – identifying other peoples’ beliefs means that I can cross reference my beliefs and decide whether or not I want to engage in a discussion to level set our beliefs, or see if there even is a need or a point to doing so.