Many of the steps given in our life drive us to build up the concept of fate and then, consequently, believe (not all of us) that fate drives our life. In fact, we spend a considerable time of our life assembling the traps which one day will trap us.
The beliefs of a man are not always the same as life is marching on. It’s a truth very accessible to any of us independently of our IQ and/or of the little plays we’re living through. One day we start saying “I’m getting old…” and then thinking, while irradiating megawatts of brainy waves, that we’re growing up, we’re touching the pinnacle of wisdom and the extreme ability of being adults, capable of politically correct behaviors and words and (not all of us) totally ready for top management positions in our job or in our regular life!!
However, this is not fully applicable to all ones. Some of us dare to not believe that doom drives our lives. We then may start looking like part of the dark side of the force, the “contras”, the opposition.. We may, as well, start looking like the eternally unsatisfied ones, transmitting gigabytes of galloping unhappiness charged by tons of pessimism and spitting infinite liters of caustic soda. We may do all that assuming a charismatic attitude which, although inducing much more intimidation on surrounding characters than admiration, is very useful for the achievement of tough goals. At the same time and above all, charisma works fine for those very same ones performing the roles that many of the other, the ones assuming the politically correct behaviors, are not capable of.
Self-trapping is the end and the beginning of something. It’s a sign of advanced intellectual state but, simultaneously, the sign that we’re misadjusted to the standard society we’re part of. Self-Trapped people are not over-talented. Since when social misadjustement and over-talent are synonyms?
The Peter Principle (1969), stated in the book as “In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence“, is a theory originated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter. It states that successful members of a hierarchical organization are eventually promoted to their highest level of competence, after which further promotion raises them to a level at which they are not competent. In fact in our jobs we’re surrounded by such characters but I wouldn’t dare to query their competence. As a matter of fact, corporations usually consider the ability of those employees for not introducing noise in the system a very high skilled talent. Corporations wouldn’t survive if relevant positions of their hierarchy were occupied by Self-Trapped men or women but the existence of these ones in the organization is mandatory because it’s unimaginable to maintain corporations alive if only “Yes-Man” style employees were integrating their staff.
A “Yes-Man” is the white side (and the visible side too) of the force of any organization. And they’re high-skilled people too. Competence it’s not a standard concept. Nor the “high skilled” adjective means the same to everybody. Any organization manages the competence’s definition on a tailor-made fashion. And this is where the “Yes-Man” characters start being part of that movie… They’re initially caught by a tailor-made competence’s definition and later on they’re already tailoring it to be applied to the recruitment of new “Yes-Man” generation. A good “Yes-Man” (and in big corporations there are plenty of them) do always include a “Self-Trapped” in their circle of friends but, mainly, in their staff. No need to explain what for…
Any Self-Trapped person tend always to be “The Blue Kid In The Green Movie” (original sentence from my wife, Dr. Elisa Veiga, PhD in Psychology, Childhood Mental Health). The hard part of such a person’s life comes from his inability to behave chameleon way. And when the fatal day comes, that very same when people start saying “I’m getting old…”, he feels tired and wishing to get out of scene. Too late, the ultimate state of self-trapping has been reached!! The show must go on and there’s not a good green movie if, at least, one of its characters it’s not blue. It happens then the “D” day. You wake up in the morning of a weekend, very early as you were going to work (age gifts you with a very well adjusted biological alarm-clock), and suddenly you’re no longer wearing your dark side of the force but, in fact, you’re naked and surrounded by stuff that you always have been away from. However, this is not the final take, this is not “The End”…
The end of a Self-Trapped is only one: it’s easier for a camel to pass through the hole of a needle than for a Self-Trapped to pass away as a non-Self-Trapped. This text has been brought to you by me after getting inspiration on the “Tiradentes’ Day” (April 21st) and on the perfect match between that holiday boundaries and the Brazilian way of life.
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