Zane Harris

CEO @ / Building NeuroPlus, Mindspan, Leadership Derailers and Strategy Engine

[Zane Harris @zaneharris]

What if your triggers were doing you a favour?

Every time something provokes a reaction in you - a comment, a person, a situation - it's flagging an area of your life where you aren't yet free.

Not an attack, but a flag.

@FU_joehudson says: every judgment, every time you get defensive, every time something gets under your skin - it's a direct pointer to where more freedom is available to you.

@Peter_Crone's framing: life presents us with people and circumstances specifically to reveal where we are not free.

The colleague who irritates you. The feedback that stings. The situation that sends your nervous system into overdrive.

We often try to manage triggers. Avoid them. Build enough distance from the people or situations that cause them.

But that just preserves the 'unfreedom'.

The alternative is to be grateful for them. To get curious rather than reactive. To ask: what is this showing me?

Because on the other side of that question is a version of you with a little more range, a bit less reactivity, and a lot more freedom.

The triggers are the map.

[Zane Harris @zaneharris]

New study: global emotional intelligence dropped ~6% from 2019–2024 across 28,000 people in 166 countries.

Optimism, motivation, and purpose took the hardest hit.

High EQ = 10x more likely to report strong life outcomes.
They're calling it the Emotional Recession.

https://t.co/2rT3r9wsGd

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The best leaders I've worked with aren't necessarily smarter than everyone else.

They just think from a wider place.

They can hold more complexity, sit with more uncertainty, see more angles before they react.

It's a skill, not a a personality trait. But most people don't learn how.

[Zane Harris @zaneharris]

I've been running a daily check-in on my own thinking for a little while now.

Not journalling. Not meditation. Something more specific than that.

What I've found has genuinely surprised me. The same three or four patterns showing up on repeat. Different days, different situations, same underlying shape.

I suspect most of us are working with a much smaller mental repertoire than we realise.

[Zane Harris @zaneharris]

Your anxiety isn't about what you think it's about.

Most people think their recurring anxiety is about the thing they're anxious about.

The deadline. The relationship. The money. The decision.

It's not. The situations change constantly. The pattern underneath stays identical.

That's the thing worth paying attention to. Not the thoughts. The shape they keep taking.

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@Jacobsklug @openclaw @Lovable OS

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@Jacobsklug Interested!

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@SawyerMerritt Incredible

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@elonmusk What a time to be alive!

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@marcus_lowe Nice work! I’ll give it a go

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@kmr_dilip This is gold. Thank you 🙏

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@Falliblemusings @DavidDeutschOxf “Do what feels like play to you, but looks like work to others” - @naval

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@NicoleShanahan Amazing!!!

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Life seems to offer us a choice: embrace constraint now for freedom later, or choose freedom now and face constraints later. Like saving money or building fitness - the path to long-term freedom often feels restrictive at first. Our team has started asking: What's the difficult thing we need to lean into today to create more possibilities tomorrow?

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The more precisely you try to manage humans, the less precisely they behave. Create guiding principles rather than rigid rules.

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The most resilient teams don't avoid stress - they get stronger from it. Like muscle growth, controlled doses of challenge and recovery build organizational strength. The goal isn't to prevent disorder, but to benefit from it.

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@eeemmmiii @NeuroPower Brilliant catching up Emily! Loved chatting tech, behaviour, cultural diversity and UX.

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The "soft" in "soft-skills" is pronounced "human".

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@mstange Love it 😆