Hansai — notes
As part of my #weeknotechallenge I have decided to challenge myself to doing a different style of weeknotes every week.
I have been doing this for 18 weeks now and i have learnt so much, looking forward to sharing what i have learnt soon…
The other weeknotes in the challenge are linked below:
‘Traditional’ Weeknotes , Gif-Notes , Sketch-Notes, Shanty-Notes, Week-quotes, Animal Crossing — Notes , Poster — Notes, Haiku — notes, Achievement — notes, Hanami — notes, Meme — notes, Retro — notes, Comic — notes, Story — notes, Slang — notes, Tweet — notes, Blog — notes
This week is all about Hansai, the art of self-reflection and action. After reading a really interesting article sent by
i was inspired to do some Hansai of my own the following week.Generally, when people fall short of their expectations, they don’t make enough time to think deeply about what went wrong and what can be changed or done better next time.
“In Japan, when someone makes a mistake, they will profusely apologize, take responsibility, and propose a solution for how they can prevent the same mistake from happening in the future,”
Hansei can help you assume responsibility of your actions and keep you open for improvements. It can also help you introspect about “what went right” along with “what went wrong / what could be improved”. So it’s very familiar concept in design!
Below are some things i reflected about:
Yeah, they were all yellow
This week we had a team session and we talked about the insights colour works of the team. We have discussed our individual colours previously, but this was about the team as a whole.
Unsuprisingly we are dominant in sunshine yellow for the team:
The fact that we are high green and yellow is great because it means we are inspiring and people focused (2 key areas of Digital) but it has made me reflect about whether we are ‘drowning out’ some of the Red/blue voices when we all come together…
ACTION: in team enviroments i am going to encourage some of the other colours to be embraced in discussion and to not always focus on the dominat ones.
Execute order 66
One self-reflection I’ve had for a while that has recently gotten more prominent is that you can’t do everything! Sometimes i wish you could clone yourself so you can do everything you want to do!
One Sam can go off and write blogs, presentations, podcasts, and manage YouTube channels whilst the other Sam can do everything else. I guess everyone has this thought every once and a while and the conclusion is probably a simple yet disappointing one…
ACTION: You can’t do everything! Pick what you can do and focus on that as well as getting help with the others! #Oneteam not #Oneperson.
“How did you become such a good leader? Because I learned to speak last,”
One thing i have become more conscious of and that i thought about when self-reflecting is the concept above. I always jump headfirst into suggesting ideas or solutions or concepts but sometimes it’s better to just sit back and think whilst others talk.
This also reflects on the yellow energy being dominant and overshadowing people who have great ideas/thoughts to contribute.
ACTION: Take the time to listen and reflect instead of jumping in with some new crazy ideas, wait to speak so you don’t overpower others before they have their chance.
I have no idea how Japanese people do this daily my brain hurts from all the reflecting!
Joking aside It has been really valuable to actually iterate on myself instead of a piece of work for once!
Have a good bank holiday,
Sam out!
