Do you believe that having an idle mind means you can slip into negative and evil thoughts?
Many people and even the adults in your life when you were a child may have told you that an idle mind is the devil’s workshop. To an extent it is true but you need to understand that a person with a high Spiritual Quotient or SiQ will not experience the consequences of an idle mind compared to a low SiQ individual.
An idle mind is referred to as an empty mind wherein the person has nothing to do and so sits free. But this is what it is referred to as, and by this, I mean, it is what everyone thinks of as an idle mind. For instance, when I talked about the concept of the comfort zone in one of my newsletters, I mentioned how it is looked upon from a negative point of view. Get out of your comfort zone, don’t stay in it for long – is what people thought and perceived it to be. However, if you expand your comfort zone by scaling your natural tendencies and upskilling your existing strengths, you can turn your comfort zone into your strength zone.
Similarly, your idle mind is not what you think it is – an empty place for the devil to reside or for negative thoughts to get even darker. No, your idle mind depends on you. How you feed it with what you’ve got. As a person with a high SiQ, you will naturally fill the idle mind with good things, good thoughts, etc. So, in that case, what is the process of an idle mind for leaders with a high SiQ?
The leader or any individual who has improved his or her FIT score, built their Ground of Neutrality, enhanced their self-awareness, and developed their SiQ can navigate their mind’s path.
Firstly, there are two aspects to a High-SiQ individual’s process of thinking:
Both are needed according to the situations and challenges presented in life. Exploration and Exploitation are two critical aspects that high-SiQ leaders can manage efficiently. They can identify when to use exploration and when to use exploitation to ensure that their decision-making process is applied effectively.
For the leader experiencing an idle mind can explore the various possibilities of a situation. Then when the time comes, they must exploit their thoughts to put them into action. Exploitation does not mean to take undue advantage of something or someone. It is about leveraging a particular view and going deeper.
So, an idle mind is practicing disengaged engagement as the person is not completely idle but is rather on a momentary exploratory journey. On the other hand, the same mind can go into the Engaged Engagement mode when one needs to practice exploitation.
Therefore, an idle mind need not be the devil’s workshop! Not when your SiQ is high. An idle mind can help you gain clarity and find the answers that you could not find when your mind was filled with chaos.
An idle mind is not worthless. It is as – Einstein once said, Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
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