In this brief motivational video recorded on May 11, 2022 in Lincoln, Nebraska, the speaker shares his "Moment of Yes" by reflecting on Daniel Coyle’s The Culture Code Playbook. He highlights the principle of "strong opinions held gently"—maintaining firm perspectives while expressing them with humility and openness. The speaker explains how this approach fosters vulnerability, psychological safety, healthy discourse, and better outcomes in teams and relationships. He ties the concept to his own situation, preparing for a presentation and traveling back to Florida, and encourages listeners to adopt the practice in their own interactions.
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Good afternoon, everyone. Here's your Moment of Yes for Wednesday, May 11th. Hello from Lincoln, Nebraska. My first time in Lincoln, Nebraska. And so I am getting ready to go on stage to do a couple-hour presentation, and it hit me that I forgot to do the Moment of Yes this morning. You know, waking up in a different hotel room, and I just kind of got thrown off. So, Here I am sneaking away a little bit before my presentation, and first time in Lincoln. All right, nice campus. I like it. So this is just a little room I slipped into. All right, so your moment of yes for today is I just finished The Culture Code Playbook by Daniel Coyle. He wrote The Talent Code, and then he wrote The Culture Code, and now this is The Culture Code Playbook, which is just kind of like best practices. To help create, you know, healthy, vibrant cultures, which I'm a big fan of. One of the ideas that really stuck to me when it comes to building in vulnerability and honesty within communication and relationships and teams is this idea of having strong opinions held gently. I love that. Think about that for a second. Having strong opinions held gently, which means you're not just like walking through life and like, oh, hey, whatever. Like you have a strong perspective, you have strong opinions, but when it comes to having a discussion or a disagreement with somebody, uh, you have the humility to hold your perspective gently. You are open to other ideas. You're open to other perspectives, which again, creates psychological safety. It creates room for healthy discourse and conversation and discussion and disagreement, which leads to better solutions, better innovation, and overall healthier relationships, right? So just that idea, that's, that's the idea. I'm sure Hollister's watching this, you know, moving forward, that this idea of having a strong opinion but holding it gently, right? I don't have to be right. And so I'm not blaming her of that. I'm telling her that I am going to try to do that. Yeah. So there you have it, guys. Having that strong perspective, but the humility to be open to other people's ideas, as well as being wrong ourselves. That's your moment of yes for today, everybody. I'll see you back home in Florida on Friday. Have an awesome day.
