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The art of
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self-coachingEd Batista
May 6, 2017
@StanfordBiz
Attention
Foundational to self-coaching…
EMOTION: Emotions are attention magnets
HAPPINESS: What we pay attention to matters
RESILIENCE: Managing our attention under stress
Intro 5 mins
An exercise 15 mins
Systems 1 & 2 20 mins
Another exercise 20 mins
Mental control 15 mins
Agenda
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Who am I?
Executive coach
Contributor @HarvardBiz
Lecturer (LeadLabs, Fellows, Touchy Feely)
& GSB Class of 2000
Why coaching
Started as a client
Changed my view of leadership
Impact on hundreds of students & clients
matters to me…
Why self-coaching
<1%
6 to 18 months
Help people help themselves
does, too
So what is
Guiding our own growth & development
Taking responsibility for ourselves
self-coaching?
Not a solitaryexperience
Dialogue with others is essential
(Like your partner today)
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An exercise in3 steps
With your partner
Have pen & paper ready
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Step 1
Individually & silently
Eyes closed for 1 min
What do I think of?
Where does my attention go?
Jot down what you recall
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Step 2
Individually & silently
Eyes closed for 1 min
A harder question…
What does it feel like to breathe?
Jot down what you recall
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Step 3
Face your partner
Eyes open for 1 min
The same question…
What does it feel like to breathe?
Discuss with your partner
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Your mostprecious resource
Attention > time
Effectiveness
Choosing where to focus your attention
Choosing what (& who) to ignore
Fundamental leadership skills
More difficult under stress
It only gets harder
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System 1 &System 2
System 1 &
Keith Stanovich, University of Toronto
Richard West, James Madison University
Daniel Kahneman, Princeton
System 2
System 1 &
Systems = Modes of operating
Not literal brain structures
System 2
System 1
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System 1
Fast & automatic
Little or no effort
No sense of voluntary control
System 2
Slow (even laborious)
Effortful concentration
A sense of agency & deliberate choice
System 2
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System 1
Most processing = Automatic & unconscious
System 2
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Conscious thought = Merely the tip of the iceberg
System 1
An illustration…
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An illustration
252 x 2 = 4
An illustration
254 x 4 = 16
An illustration
216 x 16 = 256
An illustration
256 x 256 =
An illustration
Fast Slow
Effortless Effortful
Involuntary Voluntary
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System 1 &System 2
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System 1 &System 2
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System 1 &System 2
1 in 11,000,000
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System 1 &System 2
1 in 5,000
2,200x more deadly
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Who’s in charge?
Who’s in charge?
It depends
System 2 usually an acquiescent monitor
& sometimes in charge & actively resistant
& sometimes an endorser, NOT an enforcer
Why does this
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matter?
Attention budget
If you try to go beyond your budget, you will fail.
~Kahneman
Ego depletion
Self-control consumes System 2 processing
Usually unpleasant (a good thing)
Resistance diminishes over time
Glucose
Law of leasteffort
We’re lazy (or efficient) (or economical)
System 2 processing is inefficient & expensive
Law of leasteffort
So we conserve System 2 resources (a good thing)
But this results in biases & systematic errors
What can we do?
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Get your phones
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& pen & paper
An exercise
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First individually
Make a list…
Conduct an Interruption Inventory of your phone
Identify all possible ways it can interrupt you
Alerts, badges, banners, sounds
First individually
Now reflect…
Which ones did you choose?
Which ones were chosen for you?
How useful or necessary are they?
First individually
Make another list…
Establish a Hierarchy of Disruption
Identify people who can seize your attention
And the means they use (email, text, apps, voice)
First individually
Now reflect…
Why do they have this power?
What do they do with it?
How do you enable it?
Discuss with
How might I use these tools differently?
What could I make less prominent?
What could I ignore entirely?
your partner
What will you do?
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Mental control
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Mental control
Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of
a polar bear, and you will see that the cursed
thing will come to mind every minute.
~Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Mental control
Daniel Wegner, Harvard
People can control their mental states
just by trying to direct their thoughts.
These strategies of mental control
can sometimes backfire, however.
What can we do?
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Mindfulness
Non-judgmental
awareness
& acceptance
of experience
Mindfulness
The most powerful self-coaching tool
Mental control & attention management
Meditation?
Meditation
Meditation
Repeated effort (over & over & over & over)
Cultivated habit of attention management
Self-directed neuroplasticity
Meditation
A workout, not a break
Consistent practice is the key
Try 1 minute per day & work up
Another premise
Importance vs.Urgency
The struggle for your attention
A battle you fight every day
Importance
Urgency
Importance
Urgency
Importance
Urgency
Importance
Urgency
Importance
Urgency
Importance
Urgency
Importance
Urgency
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To sum up
Attention is your most precious resource
But it’s hard to direct & easy to waste
Willpower is insufficient
Environmental factors & training are key
To sum up
This will only get harder
Everyone wants the leader’s attention
No one cares how much it costs the leader
Start treating your attention like a resource
Thank you!
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