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Books That Changed My Life: Josh Hawkins & I AM LEADER PT. 4

15 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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A short excerpt from a YouTube conversation where Chris Collins reflects on including personal vulnerability in a book (the 'shadow list'), deciding to put his name on a contribution despite discomfort, and valuing honest vulnerability as a way to model openness and validate the book's message. He notes that sharing personal struggle is not to claim superiority but to help others and that real-world outcomes are aligning with his assertions.

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The shadow list. So my name isn't on the book, but I put my name on this. Actually, I didn't want to put this in there. Really felt very vulnerable. Was that an indicator that it needs to stay? What I thought was if I want people to be vulnerable and be honest, then I got to give something to get something. So it isn't about me. And so whatever embarrassment or shame or, you know. Yeah, I feel it isn't about that. It's about I figured this out through a lot of pain, not because I'm smarter than you. I don't know if this is normal, but. And just. I really appreciate that you owned it the way you did and opened that vulnerable part of you up. I think it gave the book a lot of credit. Like, it's so profound, what I'm going through right now, and then it's. I'm going out in the real world and the data is matching what I'm saying here.