What got you here won’t get you there.
Insight though introspection, reflection, and thinking won’t get you there — rather you need to try new things and learn through experience. Thinking won’t change your thought process, but by getting out there and experiencing new things.
- Expand your Network
- who you talk to, who you trade ideas with. Learn something
2. Try new things at your job and career
- Get involved in something different, different projects and areas of your department or organization. Interact with different people.
- This will help you learn through experience and build your other skills.
- Try a different style, if your collaborative try something dictatorial — if your directive try step backing and giving space. If See what impact that has.
3. Act your way into a new way of thinking.
- Do more, think less.
- The people around you are a mirror to who you are. They see you as you have been and not as who you will be. That will lead you to pigeon-hole yourself as nobody around you expects you to be capable of doing the things you are dreaming of. This is really self-limiting.
Competency Traps:
- We keep doing what we already are good at.
- We get better at what we already do well.
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