by raxrb on 1/27/23, 6:02 AM with 3 comments
by themodelplumber on 1/27/23, 6:34 AM
In studying different models of personality, one comes across a similar phenomenon where an individual tends to naturally close in on some smaller set of capacities that they can/do lean on to do huge amounts of work.
You can call it "having a specific personality" in that it's a center of gifts, reliable energy activities for that individual, etc. but it's not usually fully conscious and you need to study a lot to identify and develop this. Power law principles really obviously apply. You can really push yourself here. Most people don't realize how much and how to push without becoming a workaholic.
What I did then, personally, was to identify these centers in myself and then attempt to change all of my work focus to rely more on those capacities.
As it turns out I had already started to do the exact reverse of that around quarter-life, which is common as a resting/recovering function that is very easily interpreted as "new career mission".
So I backed out of that a bit, used the recovery centers for recovery purposes, and maneuvered more in the direction of reliable, natural leverage.
This was in a way very difficult because like many of us, I wasn't raised in an environment where this was taught or even thought to be healthy. So even my inner voice was extremely pessimistic.
(But I was also used to this from coaching groups and corporate teams. You can tell a tiger it's a tiger, but if it's already learned to scratch out its name on paper, maybe it really wants to hear that it's a master calligrapher.)
So there were many difficulties, but overall it's worked really well so far.
(I am not completely sure if this answers your question but I want to think I understood what you were getting at :-))