Ep 015 | Unprocessed Pain Is Leading Your Team | feat. Ross Naylor-Tatterson

And that's usually the way I listen, I reflect, I

So we have self-awareness, others' awareness, and skills awareness.

And you have an expression that you, a motto that you live by that I've heard in different areas.

Go slow is the key to go fast.

And I've heard this in baseball analogies where pitchers need to do a slow windup if they want to deliver a fastball.

I've heard this in racing where if you want to get around that track quicker, you better learn the angles of the corners at a slow speed before you try driving them fast.

For you, where did this come from and where does it apply?

Yeah, it's so funny.

I was at a quarterly where a leader actually had on a slide there, we need to respond rapidly to the circumstances we're now in.

And I interjected and I said, yes, and we also need to learn to go slow so that we can respond rapidly.

to the circumstances we're in.

Where did this come from? It came from years for me of understanding that the most valuable thing I could probably collect and pass on to my children and my grandchildren is wisdom.

And so I literally started to record and write down wisdom when I heard it.

It could be in the it could be a book, it could be in a news event, it could be from a child at Sunday school, it could be anywhere but I started to collect what I call wisdom quotes and I have a great big file of those wisdom quotes and then I started to notice something as I collected all these wisdom quotes from all over the world from very different sources.

I notice that there is no wisdom without reflection.

If you yourself have never done this, and I know you have, but if someone listening has never done this, if they don't go back through their own life story and think about their early childhood, their primary or elementary school, their secondary school, maybe their tertiary school days, depending how old they are, if they go into their 20s, their 30s, if they don't go back and reflect on the highs and the lows of those times, And I often will get people to map that out a little bit and say, what did you learn from that low moment? What did you learn from that high moment? And often people don't take the time to reflect and learn from their own experience because there's a lot of wisdom that everybody carries, but they're not noticing it.

That's powerful.

Yes.

And you can do it even in a week.

You could even just think about this last week.

What were your highs this week? What were your lows? And reflect on that.

And especially if you're

a person of prayer or meditation or contemplation, you could say in that time with God, God, I've had a really weird week this week.

I had these three unexpected things.

One of them was a calamity.