Chapter 4Dialing Back
LEFT TO THEIR OWN DEVICES, most leaders won’t work on their mindset. They are more conditioned to work on their behavior itself—their form—than on the psychology behind it. They are used to getting feedback on their behavior, coming up with a plan to change it, and trying to behave in the prescribed new way. But they leave mindset leverage on the table. It only makes sense, however, that you address what is inside your head that threw off your form in the first place, the warped views and emotional forces that result in overdoing it and lopsidedness. As Einstein put it, “We can’t solve problems using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
Mindset change is not just an enabler of behavior change. Mindset ...
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