Chad Silverstein argues that leaders need clarity about their beliefs and the reasons behind them. He describes how adopting the Hebrew concept of amuna—faith that everything happens for a reason—changed how he handled employee departures and lawsuits, shifting from frustration to acceptance and learning.
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Faith (interpreted as ‘everything happens for a reason’).
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You know, I think faith and spirituality, it shows its face a lot in Build to Lead because leaders are believers and they know what they believe. And so people have gotten really clear on whether or not they believe in that space in their life. And they've gotten clarity because of the work that is required to become Built to Lead on what it is they believe and why they believe it. So whether it's, you know, the Bible, whether it's the Torah, whether it's whatever it is that you read, whatever it is that you learn, whatever it is that you believe in and do you know why you believe in it. And so, you know, the key is to make sure that you go through your worldview and you have plenty of things in there that help guide you, that you use your faith, whatever faith you have, whatever how much you have or how little you have of it, and know why, and then either let that guide you or again, if you're on the other side of that, that it doesn't, that you have something else that you're letting guide you. For people who have the deep faith, it's hard for them to even comprehend how people don't. But that's why the built to lead leader is distinct and deeply connected. I mean, again, this came up in my office all the time. People, people found themselves within my organization and a lot of times it was the opposite belief system that I had. And, and I had to be okay with that, and I am okay with that. You know, I always say, and you'll hear me say a thousand times, like, just don't push your beliefs on other people. It's not, it's not your place to do so. You know, I think, know the most important thing, especially if you're leading other people, is to not necessarily advise them and not always answer all their questions. You know, the built to lead leader is going to question their answers and do it from a place of curiosity and to help that person get clear on what it is they believe and why they believe it. Not to prove a point, not to try to catch them. And you know, you can kind of see that coming from a mile away. So make sure that you have things, revisit your worldview. See where you have things of faith that show, show itself in your writing. Ask yourself the questions from discovery or just use common sense. What do you believe about how it shows up in your life? And have a good why. Have, have three good whys behind your beliefs. And remember that you can use the and. And however at the end of your statements, because it May not always apply, but it can definitely be life changing. I'm going to give you just one example of how it showed up in my life. When I used to have people that used to quit on me and I used to have people that used to sue me for my company. We were a collection agency and we'd get sued all the time. And I remember when I first started learning about my, my religion, I learned about a Hebrew word called amuna. Amuna means faith. And the, the way you define it kind of on a deeper level is that everything happens for a reason. Call it karma, right? So a lot of people understand what kar. And everything happens for a reason and everything's for your benefit, whether you understand it or not. And I really grabbed onto that principle, that concept, and I would see it show up in my life. So many things that would happen to me that were horror. I couldn't understand how it happened. And then I'd look back and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. Most people have those kind of things that they can think of that have happened. I'm sure you could. And I remember getting these lawsuits and just being so pissed off and so livid. And I would just be in a bad mood and someone would come in, maybe they'd quit and I just would be. I remember one time someone quit after they told me how much they loved the company the day before. I mean, I just, in my head would just explode. And once I adopted this, this principle of amuna faith and I knew everything was happening for a reason, whether I understood it or not, and it's for my benefit, I was able to accept all these things that was happening. And specifically when people would quit, I ended up being able to high five them. And when people would file a lawsuit, I would just kind of like throw my hands up and say, I don't know why this is happening, but I'm going to learn something from it. And hopefully it's going to, you know, something good will come from it. And it completely shifted my entire attitude about two really hard things that used to trigger me. And I was able to use my faith for that. So figure out this is not just about again, what do you believe? This is about applying it into your life so that you can use it as a means to be able to be more successful. And I can tell you that that mindset for me, it had made me more successful with my relationships, with health, my body, how I would, how I would feel. And yeah, I mean, it carried over in a lot of areas in my life that had made a big impact for me. So where does it show up for you? What do you believe? Make sure you have your writing clear, have your good whys behind it, and start looking a little deeper into how it will be something that you can use in your life to be more successful.
