You can learn to focus both inward and outward to build your leadership skills. Once you can focus, you can change your perspective using framing and multiple vantage points.

I review the following key concepts:

• Understanding politics in a positive light using perspective taking. 
• The positive and negative sides of habituation--tuning things out consciously and unconsciously. 
• The danger of being an expert and how to use ‘beginner’s mind’ to combat habituation. 
• The ‘one-down’ position to facilitate learning. 
• Challenging ourselves with new experiences to facilitate learning. 

Experiment: tiger eye meditation--meditating with your eyes open to develop your ability to focus both inward and outward.

Experiment: noticing different types of distractions and learning to manage them; creating gap time by taking a media holiday. 

Experiment: mindful reading--taking in ideas with curiosity and openness rather than judgment. 

Experiment: positive sensitization to open your mind and cultivate greater awareness.

Experiment: using ultradian rhythms to recharge and changing channels to refresh yourself on your body’s natural cycles.

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