The Difference Between Reactive and Creative Mindsets
This awareness will help you to develop.
The difference between reactive and creative mindsets is enormous. Creative behaviour will have significantly different outcomes in any given situation.
Not that you have a choice per se, you are reactive until you have the awareness to be creative. The intention is to build that awareness. Welcome the reactive behaviour in an open and curious manner, then cultivate the space to choose differently.
Reactivity is not living a life of self-leadership. It’s moving through life in one chaotic or rigid situation after another. You might feel helpless, out of control, or lost in a reactive state.
It’s important to realise that someone will act reactively if they feel like they’re under threat. There’s no chance for creative thinking in threat mode because the brain cuts off the centres of rationality to focus on survival. It “flips the lid” according to Dr Dan Seigel.
Another thing Seigel says is that chaos or rigidity is a marker of a dysregulated body and mind.
Building awareness gives you the space to choose, to respond, to be creative. That’s good news.
You can always learn from reactive situations and build an understanding of why they happened, and how you’d…
