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What Humility Is

A fake lack of confidence

Unawareness of your giftings

Humility is the absence of pre-occupation with yourself.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, humility is thinking of yourself less. CS Lewis



One Reason Humility Is So Important

Proverbs 16:18, "Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall."

Humility reveals the gap that you can grow into.



Important idea

I used to think humility was the default and pride slowly crept in.

I now believer that pride is the default, and humility has to be learned.

Evidence: JJ Reddick & Lebron James podcast. Kids, Staff.

We assume competency and mastery are much closer than they actually are.



Learning Humility

Part One

People use the phrase "being humbled"

"Humbled" comes at two moments:

When ignorance meets competency

When competency meets mastery

Notes:

Humbled does result in at least a short-term humility.

You don't have to be humbled to be humble.



Part Two

Humility is a posture, humbled is an event. Humility is not being unaware of competency, it is believing you have more to learn to reach mastery.

Key: I don't have to be around a master to grow in my mastery. I can learn it from anywhere.

That's humility: I have room to grow and everyone can help me get there.

People buy into a leader before they buy into a vision or culture.

- They Need to Like You

- Tim Sanders book on Likeability



People who came out after biographies of Steve Jobs to counter them.

- They Need to Trust You

- Character & Competency. Integrity & Ability.

- Competency attracts

- Character sustains



They Need to Want to Follow You

- Able to follow: you’re going somewhere.

- Want: Bold Direction.



They need to know you trust them.

- You have to be willing to go alone on hills you’ll die on.

- You have to be willing to change your path.

- People buy into your why (where), they need to know you’ll change your how.



People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

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Questions To Ask To Help You Think Strategically

What problems am I repeatedly solving?

Strategy is a response to a problem.

(Not New): Why am I repeatedly solving this problem?

If I’m blaming human nature: It’s a strategy issue.

“They just won’t; they never complete; no one cares; no one’s smart enough.”

There’s a big difference between a tension to manage and a problem to solve.

If the pendulum swings too far one way

How do I future fix it? (FUTURE IMPROVE)

People think they’re not strategists because it’s not perfect. Perfection isn’t the goal, improvement is.

What are potential problems two steps down the line?

Strategic Thinking is future forecasting.

If you can dream, you can begin to think strategically.

Solutions & Next Steps

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The strength of the strategy is your ability to communicate it simply.

An executable strategy is infinitely better than a perfect theory.