S02E12 The Upstream And Downstream Episode

Check-In:

• Describe a time when you helped a stranger.

Big Ideas:

• sense of ownership
• autonomy as a cop-out for organizational responsibility
• not about changing the fish, but about changing the environment
• When we invite people into our organizations, are we hoping they will be 'unbreakable'?
• the challenge of changing the whole organization
• teaching fish to swim in the toxic water, or changing the water
• Is the entire system toxic? 
• lower toxicity with caring and listening
• leadership, history impact how toxic the environment
• treating the symptom rather than the cause
• duty to support the individuals and the leadership
• Is resilience a lever like leadership, or like psychological safety? Is it a result?
• Can we directly impact resilience?
• Resilience as it relates to personal struggle
• Asking "Why me?" versus "What now?" 
• The questions we ask determine how resilient we are
• Resilience as a learned experience, not a theoretical one
• Relationship supportive of our resilience
• Causality is difficult to determine
• What? So what? Now what? 
• Time spent looking for why - does it matter?
• Does the category help find the solution? 
• Do you need to know what is in the ocean to clean it?
• How resources impact how/where we spent our time?
• Where are the resources most impactful?
• If you can clean it, why worry about dirtying it in the first place?
• Apply resources where the leverage is highest
• System and people are complex
• Yes for the system, AND yes for the individual
• How often do we rely on the system to take care of us? 
• Moving out of the either/or choices 
• Binary bias - when there is no middle ground, we have to choose one or the other
• multiple layers of action - I, We, They
• not looking for reasons, but looking for meaning and actions
• when point 1 finger outward, there are 3 fingers pointing backward

Resources:

• Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• The Gift by Edith Eger

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