ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Bernadette teaches her son to drive in a cemetery parking lot and discovers his rough braking has nothing to do with the car, and everything to do with muscle memory from racing video games. It sparks a bigger question about the habits we all bring into new roles, teams, and pressure moments without realizing it. Using the ARC Method®, Bernadette breaks down how to spot the "jarring stops" your old playbook is causing, and what to do instead.
Takeaways:
- Old habits travel with us. What worked in a past role, team, or context doesn't disappear when the context changes, it just becomes invisible to the person running on it.
- Your team feels it first. The jarring stop is usually obvious to everyone else in the car before the driver notices anything's wrong.
- Ask before you defend. When something lands rough, the move is to ask what's driving it, not to justify the habit.
- ARC gives you the sequence. Ask what's really behind the reaction, respect that it worked somewhere once, connect it to what this moment actually needs.
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