Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 7/23/18
I’m hearing a lot about “mindfulness” these days, and I don’t get it. We should be “in the moment” and not oblivious or self-absorbed, I know that. But “mindful”? It’s taken on a bizarre life of its own in book titles, workshops, and newsletters. The verb, of course, can mean to have an objection or to temporarily tend to something. It can even mean to obey.
What I see all too often is mindlessness, in the sense of no intelligent thought being applied. Endless customer service phone menus, trying to divert the caller from any human being. The dumb admonition to listen because “our options have changed” which everyone knows is an attempt to thwart you from trying to find a human being. Automated customer service help on websites which reminds me of the old—and much more articulate—Magic Eight Ball.
People who assume those who disagree are inferior are mindless in my book. So are CYA notices on products, such as the one on bikes that tells you to “switch on headlight at night.” I’m also fond of the notices that run while a magician saws a woman in half “not to try this at home.” Legal beagles create bricolages of rules to make sure their clients can never be sued by the, well, mindlessness of the consumer.
My dog has the sense to come in out of the rain and to bark at the door when he wants to go out. Is that “mindfulness”? No, it’s just German Shepherd common sense. I’ve searched his stuff, so I know he didn’t get it from a book
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René Vidal
I couldn’t agree more. All too often, mindfulness is a short slip pass away from slothfulness, but more importantly the issue is people are “too additive.” I think Marshall Goldsmith talks about this in one of his best-sellers. People think they’re “adding value” when all they’re really doing is trying to show how smart (or stupid) they are.
I find “spiritual experts” to be particularly offensive. With social media, everyone’s a “televangelist”.
God doesn’t need the help, nor do I.