Are you looking for the best in people?
I'm not just talking about 'seeing' the best in them.
I mean really 'looking'.
It's the difference between being a passive observer and an active agent.
As a leader, part of your job is to nurture people and help them grow...
Which is not a passive event.
'Looking' for the best in people entails doing some digging.
It means getting to know them.
Recognizing their strenghts.
Understanding their values.
Realizing their virtues.
And then picturing them living in alignment with those strengths, values, and virtues.
Once you do that, you're likely to see more in somebody than they themselves do.
Psychologists have this concept called 'the looking glass self.'
It says that we come to view ourselves the way we think others view us.
What does this mean?
It means that simply by picturing somebody being their best...
we're helping them to become their best.
So stop just 'seeing' the best in people.
And start looking for it.
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