Of the many skills critical for great leadership, perhaps none is more important than the skill of pattern recognition. The cognitive ability to scan the environment, discern order, and then create meaning from enormous amounts of data allows leaders to quickly assess a situation and take the appropriate action to address it or take advantage of it.
It didn’t come across to me as a label-making aspect only due to the reinforcement of patterns being like routines and consequently, behaviors, not like a stereotype or MBTI-type. I share Mikey’s concern from my natural curiosity to shift the perspective. Adam Grant wrote a fantastic book on this called Originals: how nonconformists change the world. You guys nailed it in speaking about mastering the theory or craft and seeing the subtle divergence towards excellence. It’s the case in professional sports as much as it is in investing in stocks/companies.
Thanks for listening Andrew. Really appreciate your input.
Scott likely already has that Adam Grant title in his library, but I for one didn't know he spent time on the subject - thank you for the recommendation.
Maybe the 10,000 hour dividing line between experts and novices is where we should wait for divergence to be experimented with? Or do you like the idea of bending and breaking rules early?
Oh, that’s a great thought, Mikey. Think you naturally break the rules early; in some cases you the feedback isn’t clear or apparent. Sports help but other areas ask for mentors or guides...which is hard if you’re not in the in-group. Lots of the great founders (that podcast is awesome, btw) experimented early so they had less life/death risk...or just straight survivor bias.
In other words, if we force people into *the* way, without deference to their work styles, it could actually harm their ability to become productive and tease out a passion for true high performance
We took 15 minutes to discuss today's Field Notes. You can listen to the audio here:
https://twitter.com/AdmiredLeaders/status/1651212505279082497
It didn’t come across to me as a label-making aspect only due to the reinforcement of patterns being like routines and consequently, behaviors, not like a stereotype or MBTI-type. I share Mikey’s concern from my natural curiosity to shift the perspective. Adam Grant wrote a fantastic book on this called Originals: how nonconformists change the world. You guys nailed it in speaking about mastering the theory or craft and seeing the subtle divergence towards excellence. It’s the case in professional sports as much as it is in investing in stocks/companies.
Thanks for the additional dialogue!
Thanks for listening Andrew. Really appreciate your input.
Scott likely already has that Adam Grant title in his library, but I for one didn't know he spent time on the subject - thank you for the recommendation.
Maybe the 10,000 hour dividing line between experts and novices is where we should wait for divergence to be experimented with? Or do you like the idea of bending and breaking rules early?
I really commend Admired Leadership for modeling this approach of ‘becoming’ instead of (foolishly) forcing ‘being’
Oh, that’s a great thought, Mikey. Think you naturally break the rules early; in some cases you the feedback isn’t clear or apparent. Sports help but other areas ask for mentors or guides...which is hard if you’re not in the in-group. Lots of the great founders (that podcast is awesome, btw) experimented early so they had less life/death risk...or just straight survivor bias.
In other words, if we force people into *the* way, without deference to their work styles, it could actually harm their ability to become productive and tease out a passion for true high performance
For the uninitiated, this is the Founders podcast that Andrew is referring to.
https://founders.simplecast.com/
Great dialogue here, Mikey and Scott! Very engaging! Keep up the great work!
Will do, Stephen.
It's been a few weeks so far without anyone telling us to go pound sand... :)