The What And Why Of MAP
by Miki Saxon
Tuesday I said that along with needing to know yourself you also needed to know your MAP and that it wasn’t the same thing.
How can that be? I’ve said over and over that you are your MAP (mindset, attitude, philosophy™), so what changed?
Nothing, really. Think of it as the difference between ‘what’ and ‘why’.
Knowing yourself refers to knowing what you’ve done.
Knowing your MAP means knowing why you did it.
Most people take time to understand the former; they spend time and money learning skills they believe will allow them to act in that given way.
But if you don’t understand your MAP, the ‘why’ of your actions, there is every chance that you’ll have great difficulty implementing the skills that you worked so hard to learn.
That’s because the ‘what’ skills need to be, at the very least, synergistic with your ‘why’, i.e., your MAP or you won’t be able to use them.
Knowing your MAP is like knowing what size clothes you wear—it keeps you from buying the wrong size.
So the next time you’re contemplating using one of the many analysis tools available today, remember to analyze the ‘why’ along with the ‘what’.
