{"id":80421,"date":"2020-11-13t20:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-14t01:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/48e130086c.nxcli.net\/?p=80421"},"modified":"2020-11-17t19:37:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18t00:37:37","slug":"is-your-sense-of-duty-misplaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2020\/11\/13\/is-your-sense-of-duty-misplaced\/","title":{"rendered":"is your sense of duty misplaced?"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>once again, you may be your own biggest obstacle. by bill reeb<\/i><\/p>\n in my opinion, most people are rarely driven by just their own desires. rather, they are influenced heavily by the desires and expectations of those around them as well as by the roles they fill.<\/p>\n more: <\/b>are you paralyzed by fear?<\/a> | are you right where you\u2019re supposed to be?<\/a> |\u00a0letting go is not giving up<\/a> | your obligation to yourself<\/a> | work smarter, not harder<\/a> | why we risk change<\/a> duty is synonymous with words like responsibility and obligation \u2013 and the thesaurus offers the phrase \u201cwhat you have to do.\u201d duty has intellectual and emotional ties to your value systems, too. therefore, to defy one\u2019s duty is to default on one\u2019s values. who wrote your guide book that details what your duties are as a parent, spouse, teacher, child and so on? what is your duty to your country? what is your duty to your job or other owners in your company? you might have a sense of duty that you need to \u201cpull your own weight\u201d in whatever you do, or that you should provide a minimum specific level of care for your loved ones. the expectations go on and on.<\/p>\n the problem with duty is that we rarely challenge its origin or the validity of this ingrained mindset. when you have a sense of duty about something, it often converts to a response akin to \u201cstubbornness on steroids.\u201d<\/p>\n i remember the many discussions with michaelle about her quitting her job at ibm so that she could earn her doctorate. i told her on numerous occasions that she could quit any time she wanted and go back to school. being very pragmatic and practical, she would ask, \u201chow are we going to make this work, especially financially?\u201d being the more risk-inclined between the two of us, i would say, \u201cwe\u2019ll make it work.\u201d my wife would then, unbeknownst to me, start to think thoughts like:<\/p>\n no matter how many times i would say to michaelle, \u201cdo what you want to do and we\u2019ll be fine,\u201d she would get caught up in some kind of internal duty dialogue that would quickly kill the idea.<\/p>\n one day, she went to lunch with a good friend of hers, who was also a previous partner of mine as well as a previous colleague of ours at ibm. after lunch with trudy, michaelle walked in, looked at me, and said, \u201ci\u2019m going to start applying to schools this week, and if i am accepted into a ph.d. program i like, i am going to quit ibm!\u201d<\/p>\n my reaction was one of complete surprise. i wasn\u2019t against the idea, but what could have changed between that morning (when the subject hadn\u2019t been mentioned in months, maybe even a year) and after lunch that motivated this dramatic shift in conviction? when i asked, \u201cwhat happened at lunch?\u201d michaelle replied, \u201ctrudy told me that i deserved the chance to get my ph.d.!\u201d i responded, \u201ci have been telling you that i would support that change for years.\u201d<\/p>\n she responded, \u201cyes, but i did not believe you. and i thought it was selfish of me to put that kind of pressure on you to provide for us. i felt it was my duty to pull an equal financial weight in our relationship. but trudy told me that your being self-employed was the best job in the world because you get to do exactly what you want to do every day. trudy told me it was my turn now!\u201d<\/p>\n so, here was a case where my wife\u2019s sense of duty was so overwhelming that it was stopping her from giving real consideration to her desire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n it wasn\u2019t me, it was not about her ability, or even her comfort with risk, but rather that she didn\u2019t feel she had permission. once michaelle processed her conversation with trudy, she gave a higher priority to her evaluation of \u201cfair\u201d (in other words, it was her turn to pursue her dream as i was already pursing mine) and lowered the priority of her definition of duty regarding the contribution she should make to our family.<\/p>\n once this reprioritization occurred, permission was instantly granted. she never looked back, not for a moment, and she earned her ph.d. about four years later.<\/p>\n
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\nsomeone\u2019s sense of duty can be so strong that he or she will not even consider changing a plan or embracing a different idea, regardless of how dire the consequences might be. just consider the secret service agents who guard the president \u2013 it is their duty to jump in front of a bullet to protect the president. when duty to your job trumps self-preservation, that makes it clear how strong this emotion can be.<\/p>\n\n