Currently, I’m having many calls with colleagues from different countries and cultures. These Colleagues base their work-life with a west-life perspective. This is because we are working within a global company, which need to combine effort from different parts of the world.
When I was cooking, I realized that some ingredients were missing, and I need to go to the convenience store (tienda), which is in Cartagena-Colombia. During my time there I was having a different cultural experience and a real impression in my life.
This is fantastic, how the human being can be connected with different cultures and perspectives so fast, being physically in a place and being remotely in so many different places.
Such a kind of environment makes being authentic a hard job to do. This is something needed, otherwise, it could be exhausting, and your effectiveness or productivity won’t be as you expected. This seen with a work-life perspective 😉. However, this difficulty allows us to see a solution and recognize, who we really are. How I react to different situations, provides me a lot of information, which can be used for reflections and analysis about myself.
The awareness and a situational memory play a relevant role, for our own recognition. However, we need to make useful our own reflections.
It’s like learning a new language in my case, if I do not have the possibility to implement and use the gained knowledge “practice the language”, I will not be able to keep it. From my perspective it is the same. If we have a lot of reflections and learning scenarios, which give us some situational memory and we are not using them. As a result, it will be hard to keep these Manifestations in our life.
The environment plays a relevant role in our personality, but our actions are the base of our gained knowledge, which can be reflected and implemented in every single life situation.