Short transcript excerpt from a YouTube episode on conscious leadership exploring how to make hard decisions with conviction while recognizing opposing truths. Speakers discuss conviction as embodied preference (not certainty or righteousness), the willingness to learn as decisions unfold, and the importance of valuing one’s preferences without needing to be ‘right.’
Conscious leadership teaches us to see that the opposite is also true, how we co create problems, and to see everything as an ally. My question is, how can we still make hard and important decisions with these commitments in mind if the opposite is also true? How do we make decisions with conviction?
Yeah, conviction. What we're looking for here is conviction that's tied to preference versus righteousness. We're making a decision right now, should we hire on some more people on our team, knowing that it will affect our budgets? I can argue why we should hire more people. And I could equally. I could equally argue for why we shouldn't. Now they're both true. But I have conviction that comes from my whole body. Yes, that comes from my preference. And I don't know if I'm right, but I have conviction that I think this is worth going in this direction. And I'm willing to learn along the way about how this plays out. So. So that's where conviction comes from. And most of us, it also means that we have to just value ourselves and what we want and that we don't have to be right to want what we want. And I think for a lot of people, they're learning. That's new for them because usually I get to have what I want because I'm right, not because I just. This is what I prefer. And I think it's. I'm worthy of my preference is getting met.
