[Neurons] 2021 Neurons #54 EXECUTIVE cONTROL

[Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

2021 Neurons #54

August 23, 2021

Be the Executive #5 

 

EXECUTIVE CONTROL

 

One thing that everybody knows about executives is that they are in control.
"The buck stops at the executive's desk," or at least it should, because,
ultimately he or she is responsible for the policies of the organization and
their execution.  That's executive control.  So it is inside you- inside all
human beings.  It is the very development of the executive functions that
enables us to think about our thinking so that we can take the time to
choose the best course of action.  Unlike animals that operate from their
genetic code and from their built-in emotional reactions, or the unthinking
actions that we can condition them to make- we humans can rise above all of
those processes.

 

Then, in rising above those processes, we can strengthen the ones that add
value and vitality to our lives and dampen those that undermine our
effectiveness and efficiency.  By rising above our own experience, we can
then qualify our experiences with the resources that we have learned and
developed.

You can rise above your fear and bring courage, hope, responsibility, love,
etc. so that you don't have to live as a victim to fear.  You can transform
fear into cautious but courageous action.

You can rise above your sadness and bring hope, determination, resilience,
and commitment so that you use your sadness to humanize your heart and
deepen your appreciation of the preciousness of life.

You can rise above a mistake and bring curiosity, fascination, and
responsibility so that the mistake becomes a resource that you learn from
which makes you better.

 

Today we speak about executive control as emotional intelligence since that
involves emotional awareness, monitoring, and regulation.  We also speak
about it as self-management.  I like to talk about it as the place where we
make executive choices.  That's because when you rise up, activate your
prefrontal cortex, become aware of yourself- you are at choice point.  You
are at a place in your consciousness where you can take control by making
informed, smart decisions.  And when you do, you are turning a central part
of yourself to becoming the person you want to become (see Executive
Decisions, 2021).

 

Every human has this power, but most humans do not use it.  At least they do
not use it for the development and unleashing of their potentials.  Many
powerfully mis-use it as they choose to be a victim, to blame, to evade
responsibility, in a word- to give their power away.  They give it away
thinking that by escaping the freedom of choice, they will not be
responsible.   Yet they are.  Blame as they may as a way to feel good about
themselves- yet the decisions they make is the life they live.  Choosing to
live in a disempowered way is ultimately their choice and response-ability.

 

In Neuro-Semantics we address executive control by beginning with the "Power
Zone" Pattern. In this pattern, we focus on the four inevitable powers or
responses that every person has in order to bring awareness, acceptance,
appreciation, and ownership to these response-powers.  From a meta-stating
perspective, this sets up several gestalt states.  In this meta-stating, the
gestalt states of proactivity, taking initiative, and responsibility arise.
Philosophers have theorized for centuries about the structure of these
complex meta-states without success.  That's because they did not consider
them a gestalt of multiple states that arise as emergent properties in the
human system.

 

But now we know.  Start with the primary state of your ability to
think-feel, speak, and act.  To that state, meta-state it with awareness and
acceptance.  Then bring appreciation to it, then ownership.  As you then mix
all of these together into your neurology (state induction), give it time
and experience (perhaps through repetition) to thoroughly jell.  Do that
until the gestalt states start emerging.  But don't stop there.  Next
meta-state the sense of fallibility to your powers- that will enable a sense
of robust humility.  Meta-state it with a sense of celebration and you get
that "can do" attitude of appropriate optimism.  Then like Viktor Frankl in
the concentration camp, you too can experience something fantastic such as,
"They can't make me hate them; they can't take away the final human
freedom!"

 

Executive control- it is a possibility for you.  It is a prize and reward
from some basic meta-stating which you can begin to do today.  And if you
want to be the CEO of the Company of "You," it's a great place to begin.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




 

 

 

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Executive Director, Neuro-Semantics

P.O. Box 8

Clifton CO. 81520 USA

www.neurosemantics.com 

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Making smart decisions is not easy--- many, many cognitive biases work
against us and it is far too easy to default to pseudo-decisions: emotions,
gut feelings, intuitions, circumstances, others.  

Executive Decisions (2021) offers a way to decide intelligently and wisely.

 

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