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How to remain calm and clear-headed, sorting through possible step in a crisis and also in everyday business. How is it that in a crisis, certain people seem to know exactly what to do? How do they remain calm and clear-headed, sorting through possible steps, seemingly instantaneously and without effort?
For example, legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager, the first to fly a jet faster than the speed of sound and the role model of the "right stuff" has described his experience when all engines failed. Hurtling toward the earth with just seconds to avoid becoming a stain on the landscape, Yeager had no time to fret about why things weren't going as he expected, or to sift through instruction manuals. Rather, he opened his mental channel, allowed ideas to pop into his head, and then followed through on them deliberately, one by one: "Try A, Try B, Try C" until something clicked.
Although his plane was spinning at hundreds of miles an hour, Yeager described a sensation of thoughts coming methodically, almost slowly, in heightened focus. He harnessed the power of clarity: a blinding glimpse of the obvious, accompanied by a feeling of utter confidence in one's perspective.
When we or our businesses face situations that threaten our very survival, we may experience Yeager's kind of steadfast determination. Crisis can shock us to a kind of mental stillness. We are forced to admit that what we thought we knew isn't enough and to put aside our usual concerns. That allows the mental space for a fresh thought to emerge. Connection to the inner resources that all of us have, call it gut instinct, is just a thought away. The distance between despair and elation is literally the gap between one thought and the next. Can you measure that?
The key is to pay attention. Let insight focus your thinking and guide your actions. But don't wait for a crisis; far better to use the power of insight when things are going well. Begin by becoming aware of your habitual ways of thinking. Do you find yourself going over and over, for example, all the reasons something can't be done? We can get mentally stuck just thinking about all we have to do: "Oh, my gosh," goes the mental chatter, "Woe is me. I have so much to do and no time to do it." Again and again and again, these thoughts drone on. Along with them comes the emotion of being tired, of feeling weighed down by the world. In that frame of mind, it's difficult to find a fresh thought.
Turning things around can begin with the awareness: "I am never going to have the energy to accomplish anything if I just keep dwelling on all the chores I have to complete." This may seem unnatural at first. But re-tuning your internal guidance system to recognize and act on insight will get easier. And those old busy-minded, energy- sapping images will no longer occupy all your working day.
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