Firing the Brain and giving charge to the Body

If I look at the leadership style of my brain, it reminds me of WWII movies that have clueless officers that lead through theory instead of habit shaped by the reality of survival. My brain is preoccupied worried, really about a lot of things. It doesnt want to be bored. It is constantly looking for meaning and things that feel right. But because its my brain, Ive assumed that it knew what it was doing. Perhaps not. Im promoting the Foot and the Hand. The brain will retain its analyst function.

David Seah : Getting Focused 04: Firing My Brain

This is really funny. David Seah is firing his brain and giving responsibility to his hand and foot :) The reasoning behind this is, that the brain tends to overanalyze before getting anything done. The foot and hand is where action happens; in movement and doing.

If your thinking about a problem isn't tied up to any actions it isn't really accomplishing anything. It's just wasting a lot of mental energy. Sometimes though charging ahead without thinking will get you into serious problems.

So you need something to bridge the gap between thinking and acting. Some tools, that will let you feel you're actually accomplishing something, even though you're not solving the main task.

For me tools like this would be:

• Mind Mapping: Brainstorming through a problem, structuring and coming up with new ideas on my way.
• Valuestream Mapping: Defining the values and succesfull outcome of whatever problem and making a flowchart of tools and processes that will generate this value.

These tools lets me involve my brain and body at the same time, and lets me bridge the gap between worrying and acting.

• Jens Poder

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