Don't you just love a little mischief?

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In the absence of a constructive purpose, your will create drama to justify your existence.

If you have not invented a worthy problem, you will conjure up a worthy opponent; any will do - an employer, you spouse, your own mind, the market, etc.

Without knowing it, you've stopped working towards loftier aspirations and find yourself indulging in mischief and drama.

IDLE HANDS ARE THE DEVIL'S TOOLS is a maxim traced back to Chaucer's 'Tale of Melibee' in 1808. It is still true and completely rooted in our biology.

Your brain is a complex prediction machine and is always constructing possible futures you might encounter to keep your body out of harms way. In the last 100 years, the day to day danger to your body has almost been eliminated.

Leaders create grand futures. Without one, you will create a problem to solve because they simply aren't up to anything.

The brain does not care which problem it must tackle, it just needs one to solve.

Give it a worthy one.

John Patterson

© 2009 Influence Ecology

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