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SDTW Exercise 3: TRANSPARENCY, HUMILITY, AND FOLLOW-THROUGH You know the drill—prepare your mind to get really honest with yourself and your team. Then meditate on and contemplate the following: Are you withholding important information from your team or a teammate? When was the last time you were completely transparent with your team? Have you taken full responsibility for your screw-ups, or have you left some on the floor for others to trip over? Do you consider yourself humble? If so, what do you do daily to cultivate humility? Do you relentlessly follow through on your commitments—even the small ones? What or who are you blowing off right now? Commit to pay attention to the details while moving relentlessly forward on the big initiatives.
Staring Down the Wolf
Mark Divine
And rather than promising breakthroughs, insights and new ideas for a better life, you let them sample it. You offer hope, understanding, freedom, compassion and optimism. You let them sample it ahead of time. You talk to them. Because that’s what they’re going to buy. They’re going to buy what happens to them when you talk to them.
How to Get Clients
Steve Chandler
The second flaw is ego. Many of us tend to have too much invested in our opinions of ourselves to see the world’s feedback—the feedback we need to update our beliefs about reality. This creates a profound ignorance that keeps us banging our head against the wall over and over again. Our inability to learn from the world because of our ego happens for many reasons, but two are worth mentioning here. First, we’re so afraid about what others will say about us that we fail to put our ideas out there and subject them to criticism. This way we can always be right. Second, if we do put our ideas out there and they are criticized, our ego steps in to protect us. We become invested in defending instead of upgrading our ideas. The third flaw is distance. The further we are from the results of our decisions, the easier it is to keep our current views rather than update them. When you put your hand on a hot stove, you quickly learn the natural consequence. You pay the price for your mistakes. Since you are a pain-avoiding creature, you update your…
The Great Mental Models
Shane Parrish, Rhiannon Beaubien
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