Perspective
Your brain is built to unconsciously regulate certain perspectives.
Perspectives pertaining to your immediate context and current reality are prioritized.
This is a factor in why novelty (a shiny object) is so hard to resist.
In contrast, perspectives from the past are deprioritized.
This helps explain why you can quickly identify three challenges you are tackling today but would need a moment to reflect on one major challenge overcome in the last three months.
Your mind is oriented towards the immediate steps for today rather than seeing the journey over recent months.
This is where the role of a leader is essential.
Your job is to identify the immediate priorities for your team to pursue.
It is also to provide the perspective around what they have achieved to this point, knowing that their minds will overlook it.
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