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CM 237: Elaine Fox on Mental Agility

2023/4/10
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Gail Allen:探讨了在充满变化和不确定性的世界中,如何克服焦虑和担忧,并强调了采取行动的重要性。她介绍了Elaine Fox的Switchcraft概念,以及其在应对变化中的作用。 Gail Allen还强调了积极的自我评价和关注自身能力的重要性,避免陷入消极的自我评判循环。她还提出了一个关键问题:与其纠结于'为什么',不如思考'我能做什么',这体现了积极主动的应对策略。 Elaine Fox:详细阐述了Switchcraft的四个核心支柱:思维敏捷性、自我意识、情境意识和情绪意识。她认为,思维敏捷性并非盲目地改变,而是建立在对自身、情境和情绪的充分认知之上。 她以自身的研究和案例,解释了韧性的真正含义,即在经历逆境后取得比预期更好的结果。她强调了认知灵活性的重要性,包括快速转换思维模式和从不同角度解释事件的能力。她还提出了在任务切换中,需要适度休息,避免过度消耗脑力。 此外,她还强调了直觉在决策中的作用,并指出直觉并非总是准确的,需要与理性分析相结合。她还分享了在工作中如何培养'明智的心态',即平衡理性思维和情绪感受,从而做出最佳决策。最后,她强调了多元化思维方式的重要性,建议人们积累多种应对策略,以应对各种挑战。

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Change is a part of life, and it’s a big part of growing and developing. Yet, with change comes uncertainty, and that can cause us to get stuck.

To thrive during change, we need a mental agility that comes from self-awareness, emotional awareness, and situational awareness. It’s about what Elaine Fox calls, switch craft.

Elaine Fox is a leading psychologist and performance coach who’s spent her career working with athletes, military leaders, and executives. What she’s seen is that the most successful people are the ones who can toggle between different approaches, who have an agile mind.

In her book, Switch Craft: The Hidden Power of Mental Agility, Elaine Fox teaches us what it means to be mentally agile and how to master its key components. It’s the perfect book for managing all of the change and uncertainty that surrounds us today.

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