A short YouTube motivational talk by Blair Singer ("3 ways to motivate people Part 3!") giving leadership advice. In this chunk the speaker warns leaders not to over-help team members after discovering their "natural human genius" — growth comes from challenge and mild pressure, and rescuing or handing answers can disable learning and capability development.
Part number three of motivation is a word of warning, a word of caution for you as a leader. Once we ignite that natural human genius, which is the ability to learn that we talked about in part number two, we get so excited. We see that they light up, and they're saying, maybe I can learn. Maybe there's other things that I can do that I never thought I could do. Maybe I'm not so dumb after all. And that genius begins to light up, we get really excited. Why? Because we want to see the best in them. We love them. We want them to grow. And then we start feeding them answers and giving them more and doing things for them. Don't do that. Don't do that. Because then you're going from being a transformer to actually being a disabler. You're being a disabler not because you're a bad person, because you want them to be their best. But remember that that genius was discovered through challenge, through a little bit of pressure, through asking the right questions, and we start taking that away and handing it to them.