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Initiating - nice to meet you my dear learning style

 


I have never been patient. Like. Never. For example; I write these blog posts, I hardly re read them - INITIATING is definitely my learning style. 

"Initiating style. 

Those who use the Initiating style strive to complete projects and then seek new opportunities. They learn primarily through Acting and Experiencing (feeling), paying the least attention to Analyzing. They enjoy achieving goals and involving themselves in new and challenging experiences. Their tendency may be to act on intuitive "gut" feelings rather than on logical analysis. In solving problems, individuals who prefer and Initiating style rely heavily on other people for information than on their own technical analysis. 

Those who prefer the Initiating style think on their feet, back a hunch, network and influence. They are outgoing, spontaneous, and able to shrug off losses or "failure" in favor of of trying again. If someone overuses the initiating style, she* dreads the words "status quo" and may be impulsive, pushy and impatient." (1)

I won't lie to you - when I read this, it felt like reading my horoscope. I underlined and circled everything in this paragraph. 

This is making me understand so many things, decisions, situations and actions in my life. It also feeds me with adrenaline, and I think I am pretty much addicted to adrenaline. 

Yesterday's zoom session was great. It was so helpful and comforting to be able to chat with students from Modules 2 & 3, great to chat about the clouds, the doors, the frustrations. Great to feel like we are part of something together. 

I wanted to reflect on something Honor said and how it resonated so much with me. When something does not resonate. When something, a book, a way, an activity, a framework - does not resonate with me, I close the door. I do not give up; I do not even want to try. I do not want to try it, to explore it, to test it, to attempt something with it, to taste it. But on the other hand, once I find the right thing, book, way, activity, framework, (life?) - I dive in with all my self and soul. 

I embrace that radicality.

I embrace that diving and digging and deepening one thing, and refusing (unconsciously you see.. but this is me, reflecting on this... #essayyourarehauntingme) to go the other way. 

I embrace that extremity-ness. 

I believe underlying, is the theme I am drawn to, into my practice, but also, into my everyday: instinct, intuition. 

Instinct: "the way people or animals naturally react or behave, without having to think or learn about it"(2)

Intuition: "(knowledge from) an ability to understand or know something immediately based on your feelings rather than facts" (3)

Instinct. For sure. 





* "she" was the pronoun used in the text

1) Peterson Kay,  Kolb David A., How you learn is how you live, 2017, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc

2) Cambridge Dictionary 

3) Cambridge Dictionary 



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  1. Matthew Rawcliffe9 octobre 2022 à 06:36

    This is so interesting - I also think the idea of things resonating is very strong, and very different to the taste of what we like and don't like. Somehow I can have lots of time for things which I don't like, but very little time for things which don't resonate. Maybe it's different for you? But I think things which I don't like but do resonate with me lives in a very interesting little grey area

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