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March 18, 2022,
Bring your “A” game. What does that mean to you?
From business, to recreational sports or life attainment competitions, when speaking to a friend about how we will achieve success, they often say, “Well, bring your A game.”
From our viewpoint, what that translates to is, stay with your identity and perform at the highest level of what you are known for. What you are comfortable with. Being true to yourself.
Identity is your sense of self and knowing who you are.
Just because it is an important situation, don’t try and attempt things you think might strategically work, but it is not your identity.
During the 2021 NFL season, this was often said about Coach Kyle Shanahan’s San Francisco 49ers team identity. Whether ahead or behind, they played and stayed true to their identity.
Nervousness in applying something new alone could sink your ship.
Which raises a question.
What is your personal identity in competitive or stressful situations?
It is knowing who you are and staying with what works. While there may be minor variances, you still address important situations within your identity.
Many in our circle have lived a high-people contact life. One of the things we noticed about leaders in those organizations we were affiliated with, they established certain identities that were effective.
That’s why they were leaders. What were some of their characteristics?
Self-control.
Honesty.
Not being deceptive or political to win. Not lying on loan applications to get your dream home. Not lying on your resume to get the dream job. Not lying to your fiancé’s family to hide a questionable past that will eventually surface.
Persistent.
When questioning someone who was under investigation, the leader had a way of setting up one question after another to build a point and press the wrong doer into a corner they could not escape.
Doing so with kindness, tenderness and a very sharp symbolic knife.
The person effectively did this over and over because it worked.
If you are a parent, your children expect you to be consistent in demonstrating the identity that you have established over the years. Especially if they are teens.
Stray from that and they may view you as a hypocrite.
The informative team at psychologytoday.com shares, “Feeling confident and comfortable in your own skin takes a lot less effort than play-acting someone else’s idea, or your idea, of who you “should be.”
Good analysis.
In the fictional universe of Star Trek, the Prime Directive is a guiding principle of Starfleet that prohibits its members from interfering with the natural development of alien civilizations.
The Prime Directive protects unprepared civilizations from the dangerous tendency of well-intentioned starship crews to introduce advanced technology, knowledge, and values before they are ready.
Since its introduction in the first season of the original Star Trek series, the Prime Directive has been a key plot element of many episodes of the various Star Trek series and served as a recurring moral question over how best to establish diplomatic relations with new alien worlds.
There tended to be two major scenarios where the Prime Directive was called into question.
When an inferior alien civilization was under attack by a superior one and if the Star Ship, with its superior fire power intervenes in the conflict, they could end it to the benefit of the weaker group but now they have violated the Prime Directive to do so. They have gotten involved in the affairs of others.
The other appeared to occur when the Star Ship itself was under attack and to survive, there was a temptation to stray from the Prime Directive.
From their point of view, the very time to stay true to your identity is when under duress.
Anyone can talk about their principles, their identity, when times are good and comfortable.
It is when they get tested, what we’ve experienced is very few people and especially organizations adhere to it. Survival under any circumstances takes over.
What do you stand for?
Do you still stand for that identity when you are tested or under duress?
Insomnia is a 2002 American psychological thriller film directed by Christopher Nolan and written by Hillary Seitz.
A remake of the 1997 Norwegian film of the same name, it stars Al Pacino, Robin Williams, and Hilary Swank with Maura Tierney, Martin Donovan, Nicky Katt, and Paul Dooley in supporting roles.
The film follows two Los Angeles homicide detectives investigating a murder in Nightmute, Alaska.
How mesmerizing was it?
Released on May 24, 2002, Insomnia grossed more than $113 million worldwide against a production budget of $46 million, and received critical praise, including for Mr. Pacino’s performance.
Here is the brief storyline.
In the small fishing town of Nightmute, Alaska, 17-year-old Kay Connell is found murdered.
Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) detectives Will Dormer and Hap Eckhart are sent to assist the local police with their investigation, at the request of police chief Nyback, an old colleague of Dormer’s.
Ellie Burr, a young idealistic local detective who is also a fan of Dormer’s investigative work, picks them up when they arrive.
Back in Los Angeles, Internal Affairs is investigating one of Dormer’s past cases.
Flying to Alaska, Eckhart reveals that he is going to testify against Dormer in exchange for immunity, to which Dormer responds that many criminals whom he helped to convict using questionable evidence could go free if their cases are reopened.
Oh well, whose fault is that?
Do it right the first time and stay with your identity, which is to have high standards as a policeman and detective, even when pressed not to.
Even to plant fault evidence to convict someone you know is guilty and also knowing, though based upon a technicality, the court will most likely set the monster free, is a no go.
You still have to bite the bullet and stay with your principles as a Law Enforcement Officer.
You can’t pick and choose when to stay with your identity. Your logo. Your Mission Statement. Your purpose or code in life that you live by.
Stray?
Your whole resume or life work could collapse like a house of cards.
In the film, the young female detective idolized Dormer and in the end was willing to do something to protect his questionable reputation, but before he passed, he whispered to her not to lose her way.
In effect like he did.
Part of the problem with straying from your identity, especially if others in your circle found out that you did, now, what utterances can they believe coming from your mouth?
Even if it sounds good, what is real and what is not real?
Do as I say and not as I do? Should those who believe in you now behave the same way?
Your employees? You son? Your daughter?
No one likes that.
Something to keep in mind is that our actions are like the stones and bricks that we are using to build our house of identity. Pull one of them out, because you strayed?
Your whole identity house could come crumbling down.
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