Task-oriented
Task-oriented is the tendency to organize energy around the completion of a specific task, goal or obligation.
Definition
Tasking helps you act, complete matters and maintain structure. However, it can become an escape from emotions, relationships or meaning if a person treats each tension as a task to be solved. Mature task-orientation combines agency with reflection on whether the task is appropriate.
Key ideas
- Concrete action
- Closing
- Risk of running away from emotions
Practice and life
Before entering task mode, ask: does it really require action, or does it require talking, resting or naming emotions first?
Common misconceptions
It is a mistake to treat every difficulty as a task. It is also a mistake to dismiss task-oriented nature as coolness, when it really helps to bring order to the chaos.
> Being task-oriented helps you get started if it does not become an escape from meaning and emotions.
> — Guru Element
Questions for self-reflection
- What task really needs to be done?
- Am I running away from emotion into action?
- How will I know if the task is right?