Welcome back to our deep dive into the Immunity to Change process developed by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey. In Part One, we defined our improvement goal, our Stated Commitment.
Last week in Part Two, we took an objective look at our Self-Limiting Behaviors, those actions and inactions that work a...
Last week we introduced the powerful Immunity to Change mapping process created by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey.Â
We created a four-column template, and spent some time clarifying and articulating an observable behavior change goal, our Stated Commitment.
This week we move to column two. If you ar...
If you find behavior change trivially easy and are someone who can simply make up their mind to instantly and effortlessly adopt new and improved actions forevermore…
If you have kept every New Year's resolution you ever made easily and without deviation…
If you can immediately and durably incorp...
You can look up the numbers on behavior change, and the success rate thereof, but the truth is you probably don’t need to. You probably already have firsthand experience.
If you have ever tried to change your own behavior, let alone get others to change theirs, you are already aware that it is no...
Wherever we go, wherever we are, we are always in some sort of feeling state. Our feeling state is a continuous, subjective, nonverbal evaluation of how things are going.
Our feeling state answers the basic questions, am I okay? Or am I not okay? And thus, every feeling state has a valence, eithe...
I almost talked myself out of the two-hour drive to see the eclipse in 2017. I couldn’t understand all the fuss. I was not thrilled about giving up a whole day to stare at the sun through cheap solar film of questionable origin, or maybe project a fuzzy crescent through a pinhole in a cardboard b...
Daniel Kahneman died the week before last, on March 27, 2024, at the age of ninety.
If you don’t recognize that name, Kahneman was a giant in the study of human behavior, publishing hundreds of important studies and winning a Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002.
Imagine using a wide, chisel-tip yellow highlighter to trace the eastern coast of Central America on a map.
Start at the southern tip of Texas and follow the curve of the Gulf of Mexico, around the Yucatan Peninsula and down the western Caribbean all the way to Panama, then continue east along th...
“To thine own self be true” is a modern rallying cry for authenticity and self-expression.
After “To be or not to be…” (also from Hamlet), it is perhaps the second most frequently quoted line from Shakespeare.
"To thine own self be true"Â has empowered millions to be themselves, to chart their own...
Let's start with a story:
I found myself unable to eat as I sat across the table from Martha on an August day at the local Mexican restaurant near my office, staring at the obligatory chips and salsa. Many years have passed, but the scene remains fiercely alive in my mind.
My work day had begun w...
Let's talk about personality tests.
Well-designed personality tests attempt to get at a person’s “hard wiring,” those deeply ingrained traits and proclivities that really don’t change much over the course of our lives.
A strongly introverted person, for example, was almost certainly born with a g...
Constructivism is the educational philosophy that says humans do not simply absorb knowledge from the external world. We are not passive receivers of information.
Rather, we actively construct our understanding of the world through interactions with our environment and the integration of new expe...
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