12/28/2023 0 Comments Your comfort zone will kill you![]() ![]() In order to move you back towards ‘burn out’, and help you develop, they throw more power into the equation. The RAF then take you through the process again. If you’re good enough, you go on to fly fast-jets. Once you can fly a small aircraft, you are tested and graded. You start to move back to the top of the curve. You develop as you learn and you start to build the skills required to fly the plane. Gradually, you start to get used to it though. This is same experience you go through as you learn to fly. ![]() Remember when you learnt to drive, how fast everything seemed and how easy it was to stall? You immediately move towards ‘burn-out’ because learning a new skill can be a challenging and stressful situation. When you learn how to fly, you start off in a relatively small, lightly powered aircraft to learn the basics. The RAF do it intuitively when they train their fast-jet pilots – and the key is ensuring that people continually oscillate in the right area. So how do you use this approach to your advantage – How do you make it work in your favour? Without challenge, we struggle to perform because we are designed to overcome. Your ancestors survived to pass on their genes because they survived the challenges they faced. Work has given them a challenge, a reason to get up and ‘get after something’. It’s also the reason why many people die relatively quickly after they retire. Why bother working hard if the bank of Mum and Dad will pick up the bills? It is the reason that wealth is often responsible for killing ambition. Why bother getting up in the morning and going to work if you’ve got all your needs taken care of? This might sound great to some but ‘rusting out’ is as bad for us as ‘burning out’. You’ll probably quit your job and take some time off which is fair enough.īut for many, that can create an environment of loneliness. It might sound strange but once you’ve won the lottery, a large proportion of your basic needs are going to be taken care of. When people win the lottery, one of the things that they will be offered in their package of support is a therapist. ![]() ![]() Problems arise when people get stuck at one end for too long. Ideally, they want to be between the yellow lines. Most people oscillate on this curve moving from one end to the other. The focus curve is simply a bell curve with ‘burn out’ and ‘rust out’ on either side. I believe that it is one of the core leadership principles because if a leader doesn’t improve the capability of his team – they hasn’t improved the situation for his/her people. In this article, I am going to explain how you can use it to improve the performance of your people – and even yourself. I have written about the focus curve before but I used it to explain ‘Why companies don’t need to build resilience’. How can they use it to improve themselves and their people? So if necessity is the mother of all invention and it is a universal principle – how can leaders use it? The phone on which you’re probably reading this article can trace it’s roots back to the first computers, amongst them the machine built to crack the Enigma Code. People have to focus on the threat and find new ways to overcome it.Ĭonflict is horrible but it does drive innovation. Creating new ways to win becomes absolutely necessary when you are in a fight for survival. It is one of the reasons that wars drive such a pace of innovation. Unless something is truly necessary, there is no need for it. Necessity is the mother of all invention. ![]()
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