Re: Brain Food
Originally posted by Becca
Ok. What if you used this discipline in consert with the mental side of sparring? Would this help one navigate a nasty work environment with less hostility from co-workers? Could you see the attack on your work performance, analize it for true threat, weed out the BS your boss will likely ignore, then create a stratagy to take the teeth out of the attack without further antagonizing the SOB into continuing the attack?
Thie thing about work is that you HAVE to put up with the BS. when the marketing dept tells me about an idiotic change they wanna make to the website, I can't pursuade them otherwise, nor can I tell them not to do it. When the isht hits the fan because said idea was stupid, the only negotiating you can do is trying to keep the fire off of your arse as well...
That said, however, there are certain aspects of discipline you can use. I'm always calm under fire, whether my arse is burning or not. Several people comment on the fact that no matter how hectic a situation seems, I'm always calm and tell them that whatever portion of the project I've "voulnteered" to do will be done. I never really gave thought to it until one day a coworker said that that ability probably came from my MA training.
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