{"id":15,"date":"2020-12-01T02:47:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T02:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/hamzakhan\/?p=15"},"modified":"2021-11-25T16:17:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T16:17:11","slug":"15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hamzakhan\/2020\/12\/01\/15\/","title":{"rendered":"Having the right temperament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol>\n  <li>\n    <h3>Always stay calm<\/h3>\n  <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>There is a maxim that Navy SEALs pass from officer to officer, man to man. In the midst of chaos, even in the fog of war, their battle-tested advice is this: \u201cCalm is contagious.\u201d<\/ul>\n<ul>Especially when that calm is coming from the man or woman in charge. If the men begin to lose their wits, if the group is unsure of what to do next, it\u2019s the leader\u2019s job to do one thing: instill calm\u2014not by force but by example.<\/ul>\n<ul>That\u2019s who you want to be, whatever your line of work: the casual, relaxed person in every situation who tells everyone else to take a breath and not to worry. Because you\u2019ve got this. Don\u2019t be the agitator, the paranoid, the worrier, or the irrational. Be the calm, not the liability.<\/ul>\n<ul><em>Daily stoic <\/em><\/ul>\n\n\n<h3>2. Don&#8217;t expect different results if you do the same thing over<\/h3>\n<ul>In order to get different results, you would need to do change the pattern of what you were doing<\/ul>\n<ul>Sticking with the same unsuccessful pattern is easy. It doesn\u2019t take any thought or any additional effort, which is probably why most people do it.<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Convert impediments into opportunities to learn<\/h3>\n<ul>\n  <li>Today, things will happen that will be contrary to your plans. If not today, then certainly tomorrow. As a result of these obstacles, you will not be able to do what you planned. This is not as bad as it seems, because your mind is infinitely elastic and adaptable. You have the power to use the Stoic exercise of turning obstacles upside down, which takes one negative circumstance and uses it as an opportunity to practice an unintended virtue or form of excellence.<\/li>\n  <li>If something prevents you from getting to your destination on time, then this is a chance to practice patience.<\/li>\n  <li>If an employee makes an expensive mistake, this is a chance to teach a valuable lesson.<\/li>\n  <li>If a computer glitch erases your work, it\u2019s a chance to start over with a clean slate.<\/li>\n  <li>If someone hurts you, it\u2019s a chance to practice forgiveness.<\/li>\n  <li>If something is hard, it is a chance to get stronger.<\/li>\n  <li>Try this line of thinking and see whether there is a situation in which one could not find some virtue to practice or derive some benefit. There isn\u2019t one. Every impediment can advance action in some form or another.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always stay calm There is a maxim that Navy SEALs pass from officer to officer, man to man. In the midst of chaos, even in the fog of war, their battle-tested advice is this: \u201cCalm is contagious.\u201d Especially when that calm is coming from the man or woman in charge. If the men begin to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9898,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hamzakhan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hamzakhan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hamzakhan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hamzakhan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hamzakhan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hamzakhan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hamzakhan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hamzakhan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hamzakhan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hamzakhan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}