The third clip extracted from my CCSBE series I get into how narrative is a foundational component of stress management, with the nervous system being a final line of defense.
Our nervous system acting up when faced with novelty is expected! Novelty is scary.
When we do new things more often, we build our capacity for change.
Transcript:
On the flip side of narrative, and I think where narrative helps to combat and is really foundational, I think some of the toolkits we talked about in the other room around somatic exercises and how to find your breath and get yourself out of a stressful situation, narrative is your toolkit almost before that happens.
If your body and your nervous system is telling you to stop, you’ve already probably crossed a threshold of going too far into something that is not comfortable for your disposition. And new things are generally not comfortable. Our nervous system sparks fear when we’re doing something new because it’s new and we don’t know whether the stove is hot or not. We don’t know if that tiger is going to eat us or not. If it’s the first time we’ve seen it, we have to kind of expose ourselves to this.
This kind of comes down to that intolerance of uncertainty. This is a skill that can be developed. This is why participation in volunteer groups and different ways of being in different clubs can be really helpful in developing entrepreneurial capacity because we find ways to bridge past the fear of the tiger and to recognizing that we can actually ride the tiger.
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Expanding from my initial ideas shared on the role of narrative and how it comes to form our relationship with the environment, I speak about the particular values we attribute to certain labels.
In this context - it’s the different biases and images we have in our heads when we think about the label “entrepreneur” vs the label “creator.”
Not to say we can’t be both, but to point out that the stories we tell about either can create energetic barriers to stepping to our truth.
While a label never fully encompasses the depth of the Self, it can be helpful in forming our narrative and in turn, building our personal brand.