Good Morning,
I find that some of my best ideas come by sharing my initial thoughts with others. Today, chatting with a friend and mentor, Hope Zoeller, was one such occasion.
As we go through life, trying to improve ourselves, we often find role models who embody what we aspire to become. Anthony Robbins teaches us to surround ourselves with those people who are the embodiment of what we wish to be.
One challenge is that while we surround ourselves with others and strive to be like them we start trying to become them. For example, I am working to improve my public speaking and speech writing skills. I look at Winston Churchill as a role model. While I have studied his life and learned many of his techniques, I have not tried to act like him, or be like him, rather, I take elements from his repertoire and make them my own.
A good analogy of this are Legos.
There are literally hundreds if not thousands of different Lego sets in existence.
Imagine that at our core, we are a single Lego. Then what we learn, experience and make our own in our lives are additional Lego pieces which snap onto core and become extensions of ourselves.
So, where do we get those other pieces?
From the many, many different Lego sets which can represent life experiences and knowledge. We could get a Pirate set, and get a few ship pieces to add to our core. We could get an Olympic Games set, or we can get the Moonbase Set.
When we learn from others and take a little bit of their habits, knowledge and teaching and make it our own, we take a few pieces from that Lego set.
What we shouldn’t do is to try and become any one entire set (no matter how cool the set is). We may want to be like the Moonbase set, but we shouldn’t be Moonbase exclusively.
We should make it our own with all the other Lego pieces we have accumulated over the years.
And as we can almost always add more Legos to any creation, we can and should keep finding new ways to learn and grow and daily, adding on new pieces of Legos from the different places we go, people we meet, things we learn, or in other words, different sets of Legos.
In the end, we can make it our own Moonbase, starting with the core set and adding in all the different Lego pieces we have accumulated throughout our lives.
Enjoy!
Sanford Berenberg
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