The start of the week was an early one. On Monday morning we had a workshop from the LEF Academy (lef is Dutch for gut or nerve). This was to give us some of the basics about gut. We started off with the question what gut is in our opinion. We came up with doing something beyond your boundaries, which you don’t normally do. It’s about changing the everyday patterns.
We learned that it’s also about doing something for yourself, to obtain something or to reach a personal goal. The difference with courage is that courage is something you do for someone else or for more people. Compare it to a fireman trying to save the people inside a burning house.Then we came to the types of gut the LEF Academy uses. There is social, businesslike, psychological, physical and innovative gut.
Social gut = talking to strangers or just asking for directions
Businesslike gut = everything which has to do with business. Something like taking a risk to invest in a new company. But also asking someone for a job or a raise.
Psychological gut = being critical of yourself and sometimes this is positive but it also can be negative. Really looking in the mirror and admit you’re a little fat or maybe more beautiful than you think.
Physical gut = everything which has to do with just doing, such as doing a parachute jump or letting yourself fall in the arms of your peers.
Innovative gut = breaking patterns, to stand against a system or the notion.
It was nice to get to know this since I never really thought about it that way. We also did some exercises about gut. We had to introduce our neighbor with the help of a question which you normally don’t dare to ask someone. We also had to give ourselves a grade for our gut at the moment. I gave myself a 6.7 because I’m not very afraid of everything but mostly it’s just about not taking the effort. So that will be my improvement point this week. Because as the quote says, the worst that can happen in most cases isn’t that bad. So I will try most things as long as if there is no risk at dying I’m in! At least I try to be this week.
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