Innerdialect
"... theres three sides to a Coin : Flip side, Flop side, and the Edge." I was not talking Abstract Psychology, just plain old Technical look-see : it was one sentence, and my entire speech ;
talking Perceptions , at the Art of Self Leadership Seminar. Everyone grinned :the Philoso pher, The Analysts, Day dreamer, one was a Poet/Artist, The Speaker, Finance Head, / Student ,a hotelier, the Dramatist...
I had finished. " Asset 1 : Our own personal Edge. Asset 2: Mega Buck muscle , the Mind. To find that Edge we all have , is the ultimate search. If, we used our Mega-buck muscle : The Mind....."
The Girl next to me in Purple coat , black pants, lavender eyelids and the original Madonna eyes, leaned forward and sighe d. Now she had two fantastic assets : her 'Edge' & her Mega - Muscle.
Me : I was purring with relief that there wasn't much more to be really said, when I saw It !! Wedged neatly into the back of her head , a tiny trap door labelled: " AND YOU DIDN'T KNOW!!"+ wicked smiley.
....the Boardroom was becoming surreal, like a Salvadore Dali painting. YIKES. It wasn't just her. We all had these " Trap Doors" , crafted above our medulla oblangata ! hidden cleverly 'neath t attooes , butterflies and dragons in our scalp ! There wasn't time to check details.
...those " Doors" opened into our heads,where we kept our hoard : untapped skill, Talent, Gifts, Ideas, Memories,Innovation, even Wisdom, Faith, Courage, Perception ... a million million acres , we had all inherited, even acquired....and here was the worst part. We did not know what we had stashed in there, but there were others who kne w ! They were walking in that " Door" , taking away what they could. Even our Energies. ...!!! ( These Trap Doors wore descriptions : "Habits. Mindsets. Pet Villians. Dogma. Blindspots!" ). Hey ! No one told us !!!Why hadn't we known ? When we were in school... ?
All of this was spoken into the Room and after I said what I had to say, and it was very very quickly said,there was that relief. The Salvador Dali moment had passed. Doors were firmly banged shut ! We all began to purr with relief, and went upstairs for rotis in table basket; spinach spiked- chicken , buttered vegetables- tender spice, fruit cubes in muted Cream. The View was 360 degrees : overlooking a City and a very blue sky that noon. It would rain a nd keep us in an hour longer.
Fathers of Psychology: in spirit : Carl Jung, E.Erikson and others nodded , creeping back sleepily into Thumb notes in the Blue File . They ( the Fathers ), had worked well. We, were now all sweeter than Cavemen who had used clubs for words.( I demonstrated with wooden potato masher from home and there was the joy of physical assault, but sense stepped in and we moved to prescribed Personality tests by my very talented colleague Joe and his gentle wife Laksh who we soon saw, had 'Edge' enough to run for parliament :
I never knew I was a " INFP" type ( Introvert/Intuitive/Friendly/Perceptive) also shared by A.A. Milne, Princess Di, Psychologist Meyer Briggs....) there were 16 personality types*, and who knew there weren't more ? Like at an icecream bar where we could pile flavours....
Came home to my kids and enough Icecream to emotionally defrost in, cuz I was worried about being like some others at all , and whose Edge was what ! The Sun was shining. I stared at my unsuspecting kids ages 16,11 and 10. Tomorrow we would run us all thru some more Meyer-Briggs pages ; get everyone's Edge&Mega-Bucks/ Traps door and Stalkers all in Place !!!
(know what ? They were accurate , the Tests! And hilarious. Everyone was pleased , even our Teenager : intp: introv/intuitive,theoriser,perceiver : " Last min planner, ready to explore, love and other committments, but can reverse with alarming speed ! Needs a challenge/ or will get depressed.Due to broad range of interests, they find it hard to focus " : others in this type : Albert Einstein !)
All except my husband who refused to believe himself a ' daydreamer/Fred Astaire/Liberac e type. When we read out StevenSpielberg, he grinned. I was thinking ' ...Spielberg, eh ?! Not bad. Not bad.)
Well, its true. We all have It. The "Edge" & Mega Buck Muscle : our fantastic Brain, Mind : waiting for outlet , more than the 1% we access !!! (Albert Einstein used 2% and how ! )
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(Drawing :Vihann"Under the Microscope"
