My greatest professional accomplishment of the year: I got my exec & manager teammates saying "point positive," a term from whitewater rafting and kayaking.
Meaning: when facing hazards, point people toward where to go/what to do, rather than drawing attention to everything to avoid.
People just naturally start to go toward where you draw their attention, whether they want to or not. π€·π»
Might as well pick something good to point at.
This lesson has many applications right now.
@eanakashima Ha, didn't know boating people used that as well - motorcycle people are told "do not look at the tree" (or more generally, look where you want to go, not what you want to avoid).
The Wikipedia page is disappointingly terse, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_fixation .
First rule of tree skiing (skiing through aspen groves or other timber):
"Look and aim between the trees."
Whether it's someone else pointing, or you pointing, pointing where to go indeed matters.
@david42 @tab2space @eanakashima Latvian folk heroes tend to be more on the strong/agile side (Kurbads, LΔΔplΔsis). The larger one I recall, Lielais (Big) Kristaps, was more into crossing rivers.
My first association of somebody using trees for skis was with the Estonian Suur TΓ΅ll, probably because of the great sculpture they have on Saaremaa (coudn't find my own pictures, though).
@richlv @eanakashima "Target fixation" is the term I'd heard in conjunction with motorcycle safety training
It's a surprisingly accurate pattern of behavior when any sort of fear or panic takes over
@richlv @eanakashima heh, from a boating/sailing perspective I learned to always point at the person who fell off. That way you don't lose track of their position.
I was confused by this image at the start. :)
Interesting to read about the application of this thinking to rafting, kajaking, motorcycling and skiing (in a other replies), wasn't aware of this.
With "Solution-Focused Coaching" there is also a whole school of thought that is based on related ideas. And it originated from a specific form of #psychotherapy (Solution Focused Brief Therapy #SFBT).
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