Cynthia Fortlage explains why people micromanage when they feel out of control. You can only truly control your own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, not others or situations around you.
We can influence them, but we can't change them. So what happens is when, when the, the more that we feel out of control, the human mind tries to control. That's the reaction. And so what we see in our day-to-day working lives is lots of micro examples of people trying to control, whether that is, um, controlling the narrative, or whether it's controlling the project, whether it's trying to control others and what they— how they think and what they do. Micro management. Um, yeah. Of management. So whilst it's completely understandable that we're all grasping for more control, it's not healthy.
Mm-hmm.
We also need to understand that it's fairly futile, um, when we try and we can probably make ourselves quite ill trying to. So the only things in life that we can control are our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
