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#035 – Two wolves – Feeding Character

Understand how your current activities and practices are feeding character – Use the story of the two wolves to better support your growth as an adventurer

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The benefits of feeding character

Why take this challenge?

Review your progress in developing an adventure mindset to change

Identify strategies to deliver the attitudes and skills you need to embrace change

Create a culture which better supports mental health in response to change

 

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A popular legend has a Cherokee elder teaching his grandson about the two wolves which fight inside us all – one wolf is darkness and despair, and the other is light and hope. In response to the child’s question “Which one wins?” he answers “The one you feed!”

This story about feeding character is popular, because we all experience it. We can relate to the fight, and we have seen the truth in the answer.

But, our reality is that there is more that one pair of wolves fighting inside our minds and our hearts. The tensions that they wrestle with extend in many different dimensions beyond good and evil.

The wolves that we have been most concerned about in the Leading by Adventure series are essentially those of adventure: courage; curiosity; creative confidence, versus those of victimhood: anxiety; stubbornness; habit. And over the weeks we have been providing a varied diet of perspective, insight, opportunity,…

But the reality is this may not be enough, not if every thing else around you – gossip, media, worry – is feeding the other wolf.

So the adventure this week is for you to take a practical look at your own approach to feeding character, and to think about whether you want to change the balance of the time you spend in the various food-stores.

 

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You may find the following resources helpful in tackling your challenge or in gaining further benefits from the skills and insights you develop

To catch up on past adventures you may have missed, feel free to browse our Adventures Library

 

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