I read advice posts to see what kind of viewpoints people hold in different sectors of society. It’s pretty easy to distinguish a business person from a creative type. Their work is worlds apart, and their lives are probably just as far apart. But do they think the same? You would think that people have the same basic needs, and are motivated to reach these needs in a fairly universal way. But each person is a unique individual, so labeling doesn’t work because a person on the job may or may not have the same reflection off of the job. This seems to be fairly consistent, the further down the ladder you are. But once a person reaches a certain plateau, it seems that things start to change. Perhaps it’s the fact that the higher up the ladder one goes, the further away they are from reality. Their version of reality can be defined in facts, figures, and accomplishments. They aren’t mired in the pit of seething emotions that exists at the operational level. Their world is more uniform simply because those around them are cut from the same cloth.
Having been in traditional Corporate America for as long as I was, I saw the deleterious effects that it had on people. And I really do think that all of society’s institutions had a heavy hand in making this world a much more difficult place to exist in by insisting on conformity. We’ve become so focused on making consistency be the redeeming quality, that we forgot that important lessons exist in the opposite realm. Perhaps it’s easy to ignore those lessons, because they go against what we believe and understand. Consistency is proven. The unknown is just down right scary. Continue reading
