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. 🤷🏻
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.
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