To start a movement, lower the barrier to entry. Ask newcomers two questions: What's your life mission? What's your superpower? Movements begin when people show up authentically and connect.
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And the last one is, what's the first step? So what's the first step to join your movement? And I'll give you guys a little bit of time to think about that. First step to join your movement, what's that look like? Okay, let me join you up with mine. So with Wisdom for Humanity, Usually, usually how I'll start. Well, first of all, let me talk about this as, as, uh, the first step. Your first step should have a low barrier to entry. A low barrier to entry. We know those words, right? From selling, right? Low barrier to entry. The mistake I've made in my business is that I have these wisdom councils. And so the, the, the entry point for wisdom councils when I first started doing this was, okay, what I'd like you to do is to go to a remote location on the planet with a bunch of people you don't know, with a curriculum that's not— that you don't know about. And, uh, we're gonna go there and, uh, will have a nondescript outcome. Okay. Awesome. That's, that's great. Sign me up right now. Strangely enough, people signed up to go. You know, I was like, oh, this is good. Now, I think part of that was because of my magnetism. I think that's part of it. I should say that I brought— they trust me. Which is, which is, you know, good. And they had every right to, but I didn't articulate that stuff very well. Right? So the barrier to entry was really high and still is in some ways. So I had to think about this in another way. So I've already given you one low barrier to entry. It's like, look for the double negatives. That's a, that's a, you know, you're, you're in the movement in the next week if you notice anybody saying no problem and you smile because you think of how crazy Patrick is about those kinds of things, you're in the movement, right? So that's a very low barrier to entry. And that's kind of my way of thinking about that too. So that became one of the barriers to entry or the low, low barrier to entry. I would say though that to enter my world too, and I think that's true with, you know, you folks on this call, is that, well, let's have a conversation. So we have a conversation. We have a conversation at a salad bar. I think, Paul, that's where we did our thing. And Nate, I can't remember how we reintroduced ourselves. I think it was a Zoom call or something like that. Yeah. And so I'm like, hey, so in a sense, we started talking to each other. Now, there's two ways to think about that in my mind. So then we talked, and usually my first set of questions are, what's your life mission? What's your life mission? And that is, you know, for Wisdom for Humanity in my world, that's a low barrier to entry. That's the first step. I want you to think about, you know, what's, what's your life mission? And then usually, or it could be the other one that I use is for, for that is what's your superpower? What are you uniquely good at? I love having those conversations with people, but that's the first step that I ask people to take on this, on this journey with me is, is thinking about those things. And then if people want to go deeper with it, then you end up on, on, you know, on this call with me, you're going to Wisdom Council or something like that. So that's the first step that I have with mine is it's a conversation. And it's a, it's a question. Now, while I would, I probably even more realistic about where that movement started, is when we met. Now, I didn't know I was in a movement and you didn't know I was in a movement, but that's probably where the movement started. And the first step was, is being authentically me and you guys being authentically you, and we connected. That's probably the beginning of most movements. It comes from that, even though you're not on the movement. But all right, so, uh, so that's the first step. What do you guys have for first steps?
