I saw the musical On Your Feet<\/em><\/strong> last night on Broadway.\u00a0 It was about Gloria and Emilio Estafan and their story of a rise to fame and fortune.\u00a0 She was the first big Hispanic crossover in the music field and later Emilio Early in their careers, no one would play their music because it was Latin and had Latin rhythms.\u00a0 It was fine for their record producers to say they were tops on the charts in the Spanish music market, but it wasn\u2019t going anywhere on the English market.\u00a0 Their record company would not hear of it even when they brought in an English song.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t want a Spanish group doing English music \u2014 no record company wanted that.\u00a0 So, Emilio and Gloria started playing the English songs everywhere, gave many free gigs and concerts at clubs, blasted it from car radios as they traveled around, got stations to play it out of the blue \u2014 they created their own publicity with pure persistence.\u00a0 They ignored what the experts told them and were being purely persistent.\u00a0 Life is very much that way, persistence wins out. \u00a0But, when are you too persistent\u2026?<\/span><\/p>\n I DON\u2019T KNOW!!\u00a0 Very simply, I can tell when someone has gone too far and crossed the line, but I have no idea where that line is before you start.\u00a0 I am a very intelligent guy and almost sixty years old, and I can\u2019t see the line clearly in advance.\u00a0 As I am also the parent of a hyperactive 9-year old, the line become less clear.\u00a0 But I know it has something to do with a persistent vision, and that is important to know when looking for the line.\u00a0 What is your vision and does your behavior lead toward completion of your vision? See Emilio and Gloria had a defined vision.\u00a0 They wanted their music heard and wanted to be stars in the music field.\u00a0 There blasting music from cars and offering free appearances were putting themselves out to make their vision come true.\u00a0 Persistence comes from keeping emotions in check and fighting through the problems and the desire to quit to make a Let\u2019s put it in policing terms.\u00a0 Sitting on an informant may take months even years before they come to you with something useful.\u00a0 You have to push them for information but keep yourself in their good stead sometimes for a long time.\u00a0 You have to have a vision and possibly share the vision\u2026\u201done day you\u2019re going to come to me with a drug deal going down and you\u2019ll be the man \u2013 the king.\u201d\u00a0 Or a robbery, or notes on a missing person, or even info about a murder, or whatever is happening behind closed doors in your neighborhood.\u00a0 \u00a0Tell them your vision and retell them.\u00a0 The guys that are good with informants say they never give up on them until it is to their advantage to do that.\u00a0 Those who are not good with informants, say they tell them if they don\u2019t produce they will drop them very quickly.\u00a0 The latter I see a few years later hating the job.<\/span><\/p>\n To take another example, wanting to move up in a department, means producing, getting along with bosses, studying for promotional exams and making oneself and others look good.\u00a0 If you fail in any of those areas, you lessen your chances of making rank or getting into investigative jobs (assuming you can\u2019t donate you way in).\u00a0 So the officers that produce, don\u2019t always get promoted.\u00a0 The high test scores sometimes get skipped over. \u00a0Very frequently officers don\u2019t find ways to persistently get themselves or their squads noticed by the bosses or even make sure the boss respects or likes them.\u00a0 But officers don\u2019t define their job as getting along with their bosses, or self-promoting.\u00a0 If they do not move up their vision or goal gets lost.\u00a0 You must have a well-defined vision with steps you can take to make the vision come true. Where does persistence start to become stubbornness and lead to negative effects?\u00a0 When is it better to just give up?\u00a0 When is it time to say \u201ccut your losses and move on.\u201d\u00a0 Bill Gates and Paul Allen were in high school when they started Traf-O-Data, a company that measured the impulses from pneumatic tubes in the roads that could tell what the traffic was doing.\u00a0 They figured out a way to take the 16-bit computer tape, make it into computer cards and analyze it into daily traffic flow on a university computer.\u00a0 The company closed when the vision of Microsoft came into mind.\u00a0 Microsoft has been a relatively more successful vision.\u00a0 See, every vision of persistence, should lead to acts of persistence which will lead to another vision of persistence.\u00a0 As a species, we human are changing all the time, and our visions change.\u00a0 Stubbornness is not following the change, forcing it to stay the same.\u00a0 You can be persistent without being stubborn.<\/span><\/p>\n As a police psychologist, I am constantly helping people form their vision, define the acts and make people successful.\u00a0 Whether it is with a panic attack or helping them progress in the department, success can be defined as being healthier.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t need to be a psychologist though, a friend can help you define what you do or need to do, or even a boss.\u00a0 All it takes is an understanding of when to persist and when to form a new vision. \u00a0Be that person for someone you work alongside of and listen to their vision, even if it is not welcome at the time.\u00a0 You will not only help them form a vision, but it could form your next one. Emilio and Gloria Estafan made a good Broadway show.\u00a0 The music, the dance, good looking people \u2013 I am probably the only jerk in the whole audience that saw a teaching point in all the fun.\u00a0 My 9-year old asked why she was not going with us, and I said because I don\u2019t know if it is a show with adult scenes or not.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t \u2013 she would have loved it, and I would have loved her seeing it.\u00a0 For that is my vision for her, that she see things that give her dreams and visions of her own.\u00a0 And that is my vision for you, and I hope I helped that with this essay.<\/span><\/p>\n Gary S. 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Aumiller, Ph.D. ABPP I saw the musical On Your Feet last night on Broadway.\u00a0 It was about Gloria and Emilio Estafan and their story of a rise to fame and fortune.\u00a0 She was the first big Hispanic crossover in the music field and later Emilio had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17168880],"tags":[17168904,17168868,17168831],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-effort","tag-persistence","tag-police-pscyhology","tag-police-stress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6329,"url":"http:\/\/policepsychologyblog.com\/?p=6329","url_meta":{"origin":1694,"position":0},"title":"Police Psychology: Rock and Roll","author":"Gary Aumiller","date":"August 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Police Psychology:\u00a0 Rock and Roll by Gary S. 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vision happen. \u00a0Everyone that has wanted something and had to persist has thought of quitting at times.\u00a0 Their motivation is not always solid, but they get through the emotions to not give up.\u00a0 But the truly persistent person makes the effort theirs, not put it on someone else to withstand their efforts and control their emotions.\u00a0 That is the key.\u00a0 Persistence is taking on the burden and having a vision, not putting the burden on others.
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