Breaking Barriers - Hijacked by Your Saboteurs
Mindset and mental fitness. Our conversation continues with a focus on your saboteurs.
Saboteurs are a universal phenomenon — every person is afflicted by Saboteurs. The question is not whether you have them but which ones you have and how strong they are.
Saboteurs don’t initially show up as saboteurs; as they say, the devil wears Prada, so saboteurs may show up as behaviours or personality traits intended to produce good outcomes, but when taken too far, these traits and behaviors start to generate chains of negative emotions and outcomes.
Gradually, and sometimes unwittingly embracing your saboteurs, you start to think, feel, and react in patterns that become soft-coded in your brain through neural pathways. When these neural pathways are triggered, you can become easily “hijacked” by your Saboteurs, as you start to feel, think, and act using the saboteur patterns.
Maybe you identify with the Hyper-Rational saboteur, and you tend to intensely focus on the rational processing of everything, including relationships. You will most likely come across as emotionally detached and intellectually arrogant. Imagine what impact that would have on your relationship, performance, and well-being.
Or maybe you identify with The Hyper-Vigilant saboteur, which creates continuous intense anxiety about all the dangers around you, and an anxious imagination about what could go wrong. You always feel like you are about to step on high-tension cables, causing vigilance, stress, and anxiety, how would that impact you and your constituency?
Reflect on the Saboteurs you identify with and consider the negative impacts they have on your life. What stress, anxiety, or unhappiness do they cause, and how do they affect your performance, well-being, and relationships?
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