“A man was cleaning the attic of an old house in New England and he found a box which was full of tiny pieces of string. On the lid of the box there was an inscription in an old hand: ‘String too short to be saved.’” Donald Hall
Some things seem too small to matter.
The vampire at my doctor’s office loves Halloween. She has a full-length bloody Halloween poster on her door.
She’s scary good at her job. She finds a vein, sucks my blood, and I don’t feel a thing.
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Donald Hall tells the story of an eccentric who straightened bent nails.
When he died, he left a hundred thousand straightened nails. “…it was a sin to allow good material to go to waste.”
People are worth more than bent nails.
Weak leaders demand certainty. Timid leaders cuddle with ambiguity.
Adaptive confidence is the ability to move forward with conviction while remaining willing to change your mind.
Learn 4 components of adaptive confidene.
You haven’t figured yourself out. What makes you think you understand others?
Don’t make judgments based on fabrications.
Listen for “that’s because” when you evaluate people.
Judgments emerge from made up stories about why people do what they do.
You aren’t literally a hater-leader. (I hope.) But you may do things that feel like hate.
Leaders who focus on fixing people feel like haters to their victims.
Rejection feels like hate.
Development helps people grow. Fixing treats them like defects.
