Some people believe it’s down to them acting on impulse.
They hear someone say something and they immediate react. Sometimes that reaction has negative consequences and those people say they acted without thinking.
When delivering sessions, I’ll often ask a question and see how quickly respond to the question. It tends to be those who are measured in their speed of response who will provide a better answer than those who rush to answer. Indeed in some cases some ‘know it alls’ rush ahead to answer and when offered the chance to do so they are found to wanting in the quality of response.
The basic understanding in these situations both on the individual and group setting is that it’s alright to think before acting. That’s perfectly fine. Indeed a lot of the positive ‘instant’ reactions people make more often than not is down to good practice conditioning responses. Thought processes have been embedded over time through behaving and witnessing others behaving as well as something within that leads to wise reactions.
This is not to exalt the thinking process. If your reasoning process is awry and based on the wrong foundations your thoughts before acting may still lead to negative outcomes. Yet respecting each situation by thinking it through before acting at least gives a trail to refer back to when methods and reasons are sought for the process that leads to the outcome.
Likewise when we think about why we do what we do then that can be tremendously helpful to challenge behaviour or celebrate and reinforce it.
It’s worth investing quality time thinking and then acting.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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