Jack puts in a lot of time to learn the techniques.
He’s a technique-biased learner. If you access his Dropbox folder called “To Learn,” you will see notes like this:
- Top 7 ways to Write an Internal Office Memo That’s Not Boring
- Top 10 SureFire Techniques to Lose Weight and Gain Muscles
- What Everyone is Missing When Raising Their First Girl Child (and how not to)
- Top 50 Tips to Make Money From Pharma Stocks From Day-Trading
Lots of how-tos …
The problem with this approach is that they are good to read but don’t always work as-is.
They need to be contextually modified to suit their specific needs.
Focusing merely on techniques is a great waste because it is not difficult to be good at a subject if we really choose to be.
We can be good at ANY subject if we choose to deal with an uncertain next and failures and frustration and the mess.
The problem is, we don’t want to take ownership to be good at something unless we find out that it is possible to for us to be good at that thing.
We expect others to coach us to be good at something while we do other stuff like updating facebook status, playing mobile games, attending a friend’s sister’s husband’s uncle’s daughter’s neighbor’s birthday party … or doing something else.
We want to be good at something while doing other stuff. Doing other stuff means our attention is divided and we are not 100% committed to being good at something.
What if we create a culture where the focus is on buying and selling ownership.
[bctt tweet=”What if we create a culture where the focus is on buying and selling #ownership. “]When we buy ownership, we hold ourselves accountable to produce the results.
When we sell ownership, we have delegated a specific project or a task to a dependable person and that person has owned it.
Such a trade of ownership actually makes people choosing themselves.
A learner who chooses herself is unstoppable.
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Sure, it takes some time to get used to the uncomfortable situations that the trade of ownership puts you in but once got, it works as an extremely powerful tool.
Successful cultures practice trading of ownership. Successful individuals too.
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What do you want to do?
