The Story Beneath the Story: Authenticity, Purpose, and the Courage to Be Revealed with Chad Nedland

Right.

And this distinction feels incredibly important because, you know, sometimes when leaders say I need clarity, what we really mean is I need more information.

Right.

And sometimes clarity doesn't come from gaining more information.

Sometimes clarity comes from subtraction.

Right.

Right.

It comes from recognizing what isn't ours to carry anymore.

Right.

And that's one of the ideas behind what we call clarity that liberates.

Right.

Clarity isn't simply knowing what to do next.

Sometimes it's becoming free enough to see what was already there.

And I sense that was true in your experience.

Yeah.

What one of the things that really ran rang true with me is I was reading some some quotes and I loved hearing quotes because, you know, you can listen to somebody for hours or you can just listen to the one intelligent thing they said.

Right.

And I was like, how could I take my four hour presentation and just give them three sentences and help and help them? and one of the quotes was by wasn't a direct quote but it was it told a short story of michelangelo and michelangelo i don't know if you're familiar with some of his sculpture but he carved marble stones and the marble stones took on such a soft flowing smooth gentle form and somebody asked how did you create something so soft and smooth out of something so hard and rigid like granite? And he said, I didn't create anything.

I simply removed everything that wasn't supposed to be there.

And when I heard that story the first time, it was actually at a conference.

I have no idea what anybody else said on that three-day conference.

because my mind just stopped right there and I went, this isn't about me becoming somebody different because I didn't like who I was.

This is how do I remove all the parts of me that were never mine? How do I remove the beliefs about myself that were never true? How do I not change myself? but how do I reveal myself? And like I said, right before we hopped on the call, one of the favorite quotes that I've heard was by Myron Golden.

He says, don't worry, don't be impatient.

For everybody who's listening, he says, there is going to be a moment in your life, your time will arrive.

Right.

And this distinction feels incredibly important because, you know, sometimes when leaders say I need clarity, what we really mean is I need more information.

Right.

And sometimes clarity doesn't come from gaining more information.

Sometimes clarity comes from subtraction.

Right.

Right.

It comes from recognizing what isn't ours to carry anymore.

Right.

And that's one of the ideas behind what we call clarity that liberates.

Right.

Clarity isn't simply knowing what to do next.

Sometimes it's becoming free enough to see what was already there.

And I sense that was true in your experience.

Yeah.

What one of the things that really ran rang true with me is I was reading some some quotes and I loved hearing quotes because, you know, you can listen to somebody for hours or you can just listen to the one intelligent thing they said.

Right.

And I was like, how could I take my four hour presentation and just give them three sentences and help and help them? and one of the quotes was by wasn't a direct quote but it was it told a short story of michelangelo and michelangelo i don't know if you're familiar with some of his sculpture but he carved marble stones and the marble stones took on such a soft flowing smooth gentle form and somebody asked how did you create something so soft and smooth out of something so hard and rigid like granite? And he said, I didn't create anything.

I simply removed everything that wasn't supposed to be there.

And when I heard that story the first time, it was actually at a conference.

I have no idea what anybody else said on that three-day conference.

because my mind just stopped right there and I went, this isn't about me becoming somebody different because I didn't like who I was.

This is how do I remove all the parts of me that were never mine? How do I remove the beliefs about myself that were never true? How do I not change myself? but how do I reveal myself? And like I said, right before we hopped on the call, one of the favorite quotes that I've heard was by Myron Golden.

He says, don't worry, don't be impatient.

For everybody who's listening, he says, there is going to be a moment in your life, your time will arrive.