Clark Kent Syndrome
There is the saying “How you do anything is how you do everything.” Greg Plitt uses this phrase and puts it like this, “If you finish washing your car and you see that you missed a spot, you have to take out the soap and the water and finish it.” If you don’t have the intensity to finish something easy, what is going to give you the strength to persevere when it gets hard.
How we do things everyday wires us to persevere through things and get the job done, or get bored, scared, and run away. Eric Thomas says “A true hunter is wired differently.” A lion is wired to hunt and a gazelle wired to run. The intensity by how we do things may not reveal itself while we are folding clothes, but it is revealed in duress.
A Clark Kent character will never be able to turn into Superman because he practices timidity and spinelessness. I used to get mad at myself when I first started my restaurant job because I would lose my cool when I got overwhelmed with guests. I would become introverted and fumble with my words, be short with others and look dumb for not knowing what to do next. This would happen because before work I would be closed off inside my head, listening to depressing music and scared to step out of my room.
What I did was close myself off and cause my instinct to become one of hiding. Now I don’t play music, I smile when things get hectic and laugh when a wave of panic is heading over me and my coworkers. Because I know I can’t become Superman at night if I play Clark Kent in the daytime, I always have to keep my smile intact and my breathe deep. I have to practice my intensity at the gym when washing the dishes or writing blogs because I don’t want my intensity to be one of stress and laziness.
