The Battleground is a key symbol in Right-Minded Teamwork (RMT).
It represents the psychological consequence of wrong-minded thinking—a mental attitude or thought system that defends and encourages adversarial behaviors like attack and defend (the lower loop of the Right Choice Model).
When you are on the Battleground, you are listening to Ego, not Reason, leading you to punish others for their mistakes, either by victimizing others or becoming a victim yourself.
This environment is characterized by confusion, chaos, and complexity, fostering total or shared victimization/victimizer behavior. The Battleground operates on the belief that “it’s kill or be killed,” where everyone is an Adversary and mistakes are used as weapons.
The Contrast: Battleground vs. Classroom
The Battleground stands in direct contrast to the Classroom, where People Learn from Mistakes, which is RMT’s symbol for a safe and supportive Right-Minded Teamwork environment.
Escaping the Battleground
The purpose of recognizing the Battleground in your mind is to own the pain you are causing yourself, which helps you realize you consciously want to leave it. When you choose to follow Reason, you rise above the conflict and transport your mind back into the forgiving Unified Circle of Right-Minded Thinking.
This escape is achieved by changing your mind and consciously choosing to live your Work Agreements. When teammates follow these promises, they are uniting without the Ego, demonstrating by their actions that they have risen above petty teamwork squabbles.
The Right Choice Model is the essential tool for restoring this power of choice, enabling the Decision-Maker – YOU – to choose accountability and collaboration over victimization and competition. When you abandon Battleground thinking, the situation stops getting worse, and you become ready to create agreements and solutions for making things better.
Learn More
To overcome a battleground in yourself or your team, pick up your copy of How to Apply the Right Choice Model: Create a Right-Minded Team That Works as One.
Inside, you will find a list of battleground attitudes and behaviors as well as the costs and benefits of classroom versus battleground thinking and behaving.
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