EPISODE 17: MAKE THE IMPLICIT EXPLICIT

Dr beau Lotto discusses how inspiring people not only express themselves in words, they manifest those words in action. 

How we respond to a situation is our own making.

When you find yourself in a challenging context … ask yourself these questions:

“Do my actions increase or decrease the effort I have to make, or am I transferring my effort onto others?”

“Do my actions increase or decrease my personal responsibility for the context that was created, or am I transferring my responsibility onto others?”

“Do my actions take ownership of their result, or am I transferring the consequence (blame) of those results onto others?” (... and yet taking credit when all goes well?)

Which is why great leaders look away from what is for their benefit if it is not serving all the people / institutions / structures they lead.

We are often blind to ourselves. Which is why the best person to reveal you to you is usually not you. It’s someone else. Hence the importance of pursuing self-honesty, not simply on one’s own.

It could even require questioning the identity that you define yourself by. Which is why true care, friendship, support, love is a risk. 

So making the implicit explicit is generous. It’s a risk since honesty of self can create vulnerability. But it’s also how you create life.

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