Chad Silverstein breaks down a three-part cycle for growth: study unfamiliar topics deeply, learn through conversation and experimentation, then apply knowledge by taking calculated risks. He frames this as central to high performance and leadership development.
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If built a lead had bumper stickers, this would be one of them. There'd probably be a lot of them. But this one, this one is just something that. It just applies to everything we do. And it's a lifelong work in progress to study, learn, and apply. You know, you want to be able to do the hard work to understand something that you either don't understand or have never been exposed to. You want to learn about it and get the depth behind it by talking to people, playing with it, experimenting with it, flipping it inside out, upside down when it's worth it. Put it into your core work, put it into your writing, and then you want to go apply it. Or this is where most people probably stop, because it requires many times taking a risk to go try something that you're learning and something that's new. And this is where high performers excel. They play, they go, and they kind of just. They take some chances that are calculated and, you know, usually, you know, you try enough things that you're. You're trying to put in an application and you're working hard to learn about them, eventually they start to pay off. And everything we do in Build to Lean, Built to Lead is about studying the work, learning about it, and then applying it. And this is why practice is such a. Such a beautiful tool that we have, because there's so much to learn from other people. And so if you're not in any type of leadership program or group or mastermind or anything so important to be able to, like, glean from different people's knowledge, experience, and perspective, and then you go and you play with it, you know, not everything, but the ones that make the most sense, the ones that you know are like common sense, just not common practice. So never stop. This could be a principle of yours. When you start to work on your core work and your rinsing, you know, study and learn and apply. It's such a. It's such a great 1, 2, 3, and you got to make sure you're always doing it. Don't get comfortable, don't be idle. Always be moving forward, hopefully towards that big opus. And keep. Keep moving, keep taking steps, and keep learning.
