We see what we believe rather than believe what we see, is certainly one of the most striking discoveries of neuroscience. Neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga describes a patient in Sloan Kettering Hospital in NYC with a lesion in the brain's spatial location network who thinks she's actually in her house in Maine. When I asked her how she explains the bank of elevators outside her door, she responds, 'Doctor, you have no idea how much time and money it cost me to have those installed.' It turns out that the mind is not a video camera but a storyteller.
When there is a conflict between what we think and the objective world, we change the world, not our thinking. What we believe, structured as our story, drives our decision-making and behavior. So, if we want to change behavior, we need to change the self-reinforcing story, and that only happens when we're stopped in our mental tracks through the unexpected.
The pandemic handed us a learning experience on a silver tray. It's the unexpected disruption that has forced us to rethink so much of what we've taken for granted-specifically, how we live our lives and the place of work in those lives. Many of us have concluded that life is just too short and that we need purpose and quality of life in addition to our careers.
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