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Simply...we are different.
The external environment has a lot
to do with how we behave, but usually it has less to do with
our behavior than our inbornness.
We are not blank slates being born
to be written upon, tabular rasa.
While there are personality types
that are very sensitive, responsive and even reactive to
external environments, it is the inbornness of those
personalities that makes them so.
The fundamental assumption in blank
slate is that we all have strengths and weaknesses. In
order to match ourselves successfully to external needs we
should change, improve ourselves, minimize our weaknesses by
working through them, getting them handled, or eliminating
them.
Even though subtle, this adds
significant impetus to the 1 trillion dollar global change
industry.
FLOS makes a counter argument. Why
change?
Accept yourself.
Understand the differences between what makes you happy and
what makes you successful. Knowing that, work with your
strengths, and allow weaknesses to be handled by someone else,
forgotten, or designed away.
While subtle as a difference to
most, it changes everything downstream of this assumption by a
larger and larger amount because of leverage.
Starting with differences may seem
negative and pessimistic, as opposed to starting with
similarities. However, the danger is that we end up where we
are not, with the impetus on comparing ourselves to others,
based on
composite standards--standards that have no
exemplar, but are made up from the best of everything.
Acceptance of ourselves and others,
noting the value of differences and diversity and realizing no
comparisons can be made, eliminates huge potential problems
for FLOSers.
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