Irresistible Temptations
Fulfill the role you must assume, by reducing your vulnerability in the face of the uncontrolled tendency to expand the excellence area.
The rarest flower of human genius must be purposefully used, cared for like a jewel with the utmost quality. In any case, it shouldn’t be abandoned on an empty field, in full blooming and harvesting season. And Clarice Starling, aware of the precious attributes of this magnificent creation sees herself under the necessity – just like a clever gardener – to take care of it. And not just that, not with limitation to enjoying its perfume and colors. But to extract the sweet honey of virtue. Because this honey, continuously mixed in well-determined proportions, simmered until it reaches the boiling point, produces that first quality oil with the property to energize and amplify mental functions.
Clarice wants to achieve the passage to the challenging stage of diagnosing man, to travel and intervene in the area of subtleties that nobody notices. She wants to reach that finesse of understanding the elements that make up man, to identify the secret motives that support his personality and to determine the best control options. Just one thought doesn’t seem to go away: "I can’t be passive in front of the magnitude of the depth phenomenon; I want to learn how to think in the detriment of mediocrity and formalism."
Just like a maniac who follows unknown people, Clarice carefully follows the strand of advanced hardly-accessible judgment of the psychiatrist, Hannibal Lecter. At any cost she must exploit the energy in the deepest abysses of the human being, from the inferior to the superior limit of thinking capacities and patterns. To explore the extremely variable dimensions of the highest senses, inverting the percentages of complete harmony. Here is what a grueling ordeal she has to endure because of irresistible temptations.
Are your limitations on what you cannot control experiencing an opposing force from an existential motivation when deciding to escape from the extremes of a sense of psychic overwhelming?
Clarice’s entire existence seems to revolve around the idea of traveling through the map of Hannibal Lector’s life, her whole motivation being to imitate her idol, but for this she must escape from the extremes of a sense of psychic overwhelming, such as that something terrible will happen and that she will lose everything. The work of an FBI agent is not based only on the awareness of the destructive repercussions of tragic events, but rather on the manifestations of the soul to a certain form of response to threats of perceptual nature.
But wanting to make an impressive example of way of thinking and attitude out of herself in the elusive game of finding the most fertile understandings and perceptions about man, hidden in the mental shell of doctor Hannibal Lecter, she distances herself from her role. A reluctance towards the obligations and responsibilities of her profession in the stages of the individual decision-making process.
These justified escapes of the professional area blocked by regulations and directives come alive through "the step forward", which has become the fundament of her evolution. The decision of not telling her boss every detail, keeping for herself key elements of the investigation, is the fruit of a determination between the dream to reach a higher professional level and the tendency to acquire an advanced knowledge of man. Maybe even a higher IQ.
The biggest weight Clarice has to bear is not that of entering the killer’s mind, inspired by Hannibal Lecter’s thinking, but to accept his negative parts and mistakes that increasingly make her forget that there is any joy left in the world.
The attachment to a thinking that is found in all particular consciousnesses highlights the mental effort that you are subjected to resisting under the conditions of a decision simulation made by a superior reality.
Clarice feels that she cannot rise to Hannibal’s way of thinking because she cannot adapt to a higher-order reality that can cost a lot, even her life, a reality that no longer reproduces the simplicity of the ideal of fulfilling a destiny, but rather producing the fear of the unknown. In order to turn into reality the adventurous thoughts, perfectly adapted to the personality that directly and openly receives messages with empowering character, a certain capacity and certain orientation are needed in front of human suffering.
The capacity to see in man’s depth, destined exclusively to extending his own potential. And the precise orientation over the focalized point, dedicated to training the self-regulation mechanisms for self-worthiness. Both variables correspond to the decision-making consequences induced by a certain dose of non-conformism.
But between capacity and orientation there is always a third element which comprises both: the tendency to hide aspects directly or indirectly connected with the gradual identification and amplification of using resources that are absolutely necessary for continuous training and personal accomplishment.
And a persistence of focusing the efforts of being as faithful as possible to the reconstruction of personality, determining an ambiguous reaction, a certain unpredictability and imprecision in decisions and actions, will create the domino effect in your excellence area, reducing that constant of collaborating with other participants to the narrow and profitable sector of professional assertion.
Can you highlight the extremes of a career decision to clarify the choice you are going to make in a context of closeness and emotional openness to an authority that manifests without any explanation?
Clarice Starling is forced to make a very risky and dangerous decision: she agrees to keep in touch secretly with fugitive Hannibal Lecter, who a few days ago had committed two of the most heinous crimes in the history of the city, being more dangerous than ever. We find only one explanation for this gesture of psychological and emotional attachment: she knows she will need Hannibal’s knowledge and thinking to solve the most important cases of murder in the future.
She practically agrees to keep in touch with the most hideous of criminals to catch other criminals. It’s a typical FBI procedure. She points out this decision in the absence of any remorse, which denotes vanity, because her only purpose was to capture the serial killer Buffalo Bill, with no regard for collateral victims.
In leadership, this more resembles an attitude of pendulum between responsibility and hypocrisy, between morality and necessity, between the thirst of sensationalism and the heavy burden of consciousness.
In leadership, things should be looked at from two angles: a positive appreciation of man by enhancing his value, admissible only because it keeps him away from smashing into old limitations. And a negative appreciation because of the tendency to "transit" towards a different form of being, towards a different professional destination than the one foreseen by his role. It is the destination of a fulfilled life by freeing the pain caused by the tendency to see things in opposite ends of the spectrum, the sign of a weakness, of a fear, of a self-defense tendency and of internal conflicts.
The predisposition to taking risks is often the main correspondent of the decision-making process that is influenced by factors external to your own consciousness, for the benefit of an experience that brings you more prestige, or by virtue of your preoccupation with what others around you will think of your performance.
The motto: "Intoxicate your senses with honey, without tasting its sweetness", used in relation with the process of responsibility, having a critical connotation, becomes the landmark necessary for thinking and being aware of the risks entailed by a deviation to the role entrusted in the expansion process of the collaboration and association agreement signed by the other partners or superiors.
We are considering here the actions on your own which have as objective extending the operating area, as well as individual insubordination plans can have a positive interpretation, representing an evolution, but only if they win ground in front of mediocrity and formalism.
While the tendency to eat too much sweet honey will trigger that phenomenon of being against everyone, pursuing only your own interests, fully taking advantage of the role that was entrusted to him, and will systematically oppose general tendencies.
Leadership is the voice of consciousness that you assume of a present action, insofar as the Ego that animates your existence is unrelated to what you find appealing in others.
Irresistible temptations highlights those leaders who, wanting to excel in their activities, get lost on the twisted paths of human subtleties. If you don’t want to add a permanent minus to your career, then fulfill the role you have to assume, reducing your vulnerability in the face of the uncontrolled tendency to expand your excellence area.
