Saturday, September 25, 2021

Innatesophistication

We live in the era in which all of us leave abundant digital footprints in the internet space. Consistency enhances sophistication; profundity conveys sophistication.

We live in a complex world with a mixed bag of new and old; fresh knowledge and misinformation, truth and false, etc. To deal with complex problems and interact with hyperdiverse people in our modern society, being sophisticated implies being authentic, intelligent, articulate, decent, consistent, and profound, etc. 

Modern society is a dynamic continuum with collective human progress. A sophisticated leader or professional has a unique set of complex mindsets, recombined capabilities and skills to understand multifaceted situations and solve problems thoroughly.




Authenticity: The traditional understanding of sophistication is about having conventional wisdom or demonstrating certain social manners to interact and communicate with others in the business environment. But nowadays, digital makes things so transparent, your professional life is converged with your personal life, not only your words, but even your thoughts can be amplified via the speed of the internet. Authenticity is an important ingredient of sophistication that helps you build strong credibility. Mindset-attitude-behavior consistency conveys authenticity and high professionalism.

Being authentic is the state of self-consciousness, self-discovery, and self-improvement. The more you understand yourself; the better chance you can have a positive attitude to develop yourself, build unique character and competency. You become more sophisticated as you are cognitively strong to understand things and express them well with accuracy. You become more sophisticated because you shape your own style and taste; you are able to appreciate others’ talent or quality as well. Being authentic makes people more truthful and influential and demonstrates professional sophistication. If they can keep pursuing the better version of themselves, understand others with empathy.

Competency: Being sophisticated means you can deal with varying complex situations thoughtfully. That perhaps requires multidimensional competencies to formulate creative, unconventional alternatives or solutions to solve problems effectively. The more competitive you are; the more confident you become to adapt to change; the humbler you become to know your strengths and weaknesses, so you can understand people, things, and circumstances thoroughly. The integrity and suitability of professional competency are tested through traits such as attitude, passion, entrepreneurship, leadership, multidimensional intelligence, versatility, maturity, and wisdom, etc.

Usually senior leadership is a sophisticated role which requires a person to have multidimensional intelligence to make effective decisions and unique competency to show versatility and flexibility in response to unpredictable or unanticipated circumstances. An individual may practice a profession for many years but has not matured its practices - lack of well-defined sets of principles to reach a state of fuency. So professionally, they are not sophisticated enough to achieve high quality and meaningful results or discover their own purpose over a sustained period of time.

Profundity:
Back to the root of the word “profundity,” it means being insightful and understanding to overcome unconscious biases. To gain a profound understanding, it is the responsibility of each individual to examine themselves and to make sure they are open to true understanding. If you always categorize people via physical identification only, you are not profound; if you only read the content without contextual intelligence, you are not profound; if you only capture the symptom, but not dig through the root cause, you are not profound. A profound mind is deep, sophisticated, "read between the lines," "listen to what is not being said," to perceive things objectively, closer to the actual reality and is more persuasive for communicating with clarity and solving related problems comprehensively.

Being profound also means consistency- be consistent in the habit of learning, acting, and problem-solving to build their professional; not only keep consistent on themselves, what they think, what they say, or what they act, but they also look for consistency in their teams, in their organization as well as in the ecosystem, as consistency harmonizes humanities. We live in the era in which all of us leave abundant digital footprints in the internet space. Your digital profile needs to have a cohesive consistency with your “trueself,”it should reflect your dynamic thought processes, your innate strength, and your professional credibility and brand. Consistency enhances sophistication; profundity conveys sophistication.

The paradox is that we have already developed so much that mere survival is the shadow perception of the human world. Sophistication is one of the most advanced traits for contemporary business leaders and professionals to think and act consistently; interact with others thoughtfully, handle problems step-wisely and respond to unpredictable or unanticipated circumstances flexibly.

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