Pride
Think of your proudest moment.
What happened right before that moment?
Chances are you were in the middle of a challenge or complex problem.
Pride is an important emotion, linked with essential cognitive capacities.
When you feel pride your mind is better equipped to think in terms of what is possible, and your ambition increases.
Coincidentally, achieving that state often involves overcoming the opposite: a constraint.
Your mind remembers pride-state events at the conclusion.
This means you do not recall the moment right before experiencing pride without provocation.
As a leader, one way to support your team navigating challenges is to help them remember that a sense of pride almost certainly awaits them on the other side.
A group of lions is a pride and a group of coffees is a brouhaha,
- Morning Cup