Getting Out of Your Own Way (By Getting Out of Your Own Head)

We spend a lot of time in our own heads. Probably more than is healthy. And much of this narrative is feeding questionable agendas and assumptions about ourselves, our situation, and those who surround us.

Piercing the veil of our self-fulfilling self-talk is an exercise worth doing more often. Here's a one-minute exercise that can help you "zoom out," provide a bit of context, and encourages empathy and cosmopolitanism.

It's called Hierocles' Concentric Circles of Concern. Starting with yourself, reach out to ever-widening circles of contacts and imagine pulling those people closer to yourself and into the previous circle. Your family, your friends, your neighbors, people living in the same city or town, and so on and on. You can extend this exercise all the way out to the planet and beyond.

Want to learn more? Massimo Pigliucci, shares more about this practice and its history in his blog.

What could you accomplish if you got out of your head and into the world more often?

Keep flying higher!

Scott Perry, Chief Difference-Maker at Creative on Purpose

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