Dr Jeff Spencer - "Don’t step onto the field until you’re ready."

Well, first off, a major tenet in the Champions space is that you don't step onto the field until you're ready. And I think a lot of people prematurely step onto the field fearing that if they don't take a step now, that the universe will feel like it's not being honored because we're taking too much time. We need to have more faith in the universe to fill in all the gaps. Nobody that plays a big game ever looks at it like that. You know, they make sure they check off all the boxes enough. I didn't say to be perfect. I said enough to know that they're ready to step onto the field. People also are sometimes premature because they feel like, if I don't step onto the field right now, somebody's going to jump and butt in front of me and get first dibs at an idea that I've got. That's a fear-based decision that will backfire. It can't possibly get us to where we want to get to. Another reason why people have a tendency to jump too fast is everybody thinks, well, if you're stalled, then you got to think bigger. The reason why you're stalled is you're not thinking big enough. I think you're going just exactly the opposite direction. I think we need to learn the model and be confident in our capacity, because scaling is you're just doing the same thing but at a different magnitude that you've acclimatized yourself to basically over time. So I would just say take your time, man, and make sure that you've got a model that you can follow that allows you to be able to progressively give yourself a chance to develop and learn the skill. Because if we don't and we lose confidence in ourselves prematurely because it was too much too fast, then it's easy to get gun-shy and talk ourselves into a much smaller game.

Absolutely brilliant. I love that. That idea that we are sufficient as we strive. We can be both of these things all the time. Really, really profound.