This week the amazing MyJourney team led the chapter an a program focused on why we ignore obvious problems and how we act upon them.
A gray rhino is an obvious danger that offers us a choice: deny it or deal with it. Humans take these problems for granted all too often and get trampled because of it. Gray rhinos happen in personal lives, at work, in communities and around the world. Why gray? Well, there are White rhinos, which are not white, and there are Black rhinos, which are not black. Despite their names, they are all gray. It’s the most obvious thing about them but we miss that glaring detail.
Members engaged in thought provoking questions, some of which were:
- Sometimes we don’t feel like we can fix the obvious problem because we feel like we don’t have the power to change it. Maybe that is your obvious problem? We have more power over our own lives than we realize.
- Why Do some people see things and deal with them and other ones just look away?
- How much do you know about a situation? How much are you willing to learn? And are you willing to see things even when it’s not what you want?
- How much control do you feel you have over the grey rhinos in your life?
The above questions and more were a mix of rhetorical, share allowed and turn to a neighbor and share. They encouraged our members to think about “Rhinos” in both their personal lives and in the chapter, campus and society as a whole and how to approach them individually and together!
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