{"id":899,"date":"2011-07-09T16:06:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T16:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saasoft.com\/blog\/?p=899"},"modified":"2011-07-09T16:06:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T16:06:17","slug":"passion-process-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/?p=899","title":{"rendered":"Passion-Process-Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The\u00a0wetware between our\u00a0ears is both\u00a0amazing and frustrating.<\/p>\n

One of\u00a0the amazing features is how we can condense\u00a0a whole paradigm into a few\u00a0words; and one of the frustrating features\u00a0is how we condense a whole paradigm into a few words.\u00a0 Take the three words – Passion, Process and Purpose – just three seven letter words beginning with P.\u00a0 Together they capture\u00a0the paradigm of Improvement Science – these are the three interdependent parts.<\/p>\n

Passion provides the energy to change and the desire to do something. Purpose is the goal that is sought; the outcome that\u00a0is desired.\u00a0Process is the\u00a0recipe, the\u00a0plan, the map of the journey.\u00a0\u00a0All three are necessary and only together they are sufficient.<\/p>\n

The easier bit is Passion – we are all emotional beings – we are not rocks or clocks – we have some irrational components\u00a0included in our design.\u00a0Despite what we may think, most of our thinking is outside awareness, unconscious, and we are steered by\u00a0feelings and signal with feelings.\u00a0We are not aware of how we use emotions to filter data and\u00a0to facilitate\u00a0decisions and we are not aware how we broadcast\u00a0our unconscious thinking in our\u00a0body language.<\/p>\n

The trickier\u00a0bit\u00a0is\u00a0Process and Purpose –\u00a0not because they are difficult concepts, but because we confuse the two.\u00a0 There are two different questions that we\u00a0use to use to try to separate them: the How and the Why questions.\u00a0 “How?” is the question that asks about the Process; “Why?” is the question that asks about the Purpose – and\u00a0we very often give a How answer to a Why question. We seem to habitually dodge\u00a0the Purpose question\u00a0– and that is\u00a0what makes it tricky.\u00a0 Asking the question “What is my\u00a0purpose\u00a0for …” is one that we find\u00a0difficult to answer. It is difficult because our purpose is\u00a0unconscious – it is a combination of many things combining\u00a0in parallel – and such\u00a0multi-part-interdependent-mental objects are systems; and systems are\u00a0difficult to capture with a single concept and therefore difficult to bring to consciousness. We feel we have a purpose\u00a0and we know when others share that purpose but we find it difficult to say\u00a0what it is – so we say how it works instead.\u00a0 And\u00a0if we lose our feeling of purpose we become unhappy – we need Purpose.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

This\u00a0trickiness of\u00a0 Process and Purpose is\u00a0critical to the Science of Improvement because the design method starts with a Purpose –\u00a0and then works backwards to define a Process; while\u00a0improvement starts with a Passion and moves forward into deciding a Process.\u00a0Our normal, intuitive\u00a0mode of working is to use our irrationality\u00a0to trigger\u00a0a sequence of actions – we are\u00a0instinctively reactive.<\/p>\n

The contra-normal, counter-intuitive mode of working is to start with our purpose and use our rationality to assemble a sequence of actions.\u00a0 We pause,\u00a0consider,\u00a0think and then act –\u00a0with purpose.\u00a0 This is why vision and mission are so important to collective improvement – the vision and mission provide a quick reminder of\u00a0our collective purpose.\u00a0 And that is why investing time\u00a0in\u00a0deeply exploring the\u00a0Purpose question is such an important step – when you get to your\u00a0purpose and you ask the right question there is a sort of mental “click” as the thinking and the feeling align – the two parts of our wetware working as one system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0wetware between our\u00a0ears is both\u00a0amazing and frustrating. One of\u00a0the amazing features is how we can condense\u00a0a whole paradigm into a few\u00a0words; and one of the frustrating features\u00a0is how we condense a whole paradigm into a few words.\u00a0 Take the three words – Passion, Process and Purpose – just three seven letter words beginning with P.\u00a0 … <\/p>\n

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