When You Were My Age

The other day I was catching up with a old music biz friend who is a bunch of years older than I am.

I asked him: What do you know now that you were learning when you were my age?

It turned out that was a really good question to ask.  So feel free to tuck that one away and use it when it comes to mind.

And I’ll add this…

If someone in their early 20’s asked me what I know now that I was learning (the hard way) back then…this is what comes to mind…

When delegating, and the task comes back completed in a different way than I had in mind…that’s the BEAUTY of delegating, and the synergy that is happens as a result.

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Dropping In

So in halfpipe snowboarding as they start their runs there’s the first part where they’re just snowboarding slowly, gradually, down a little hill toward the half pipe. No real action here.

This is a necessary step to get from the start house to the halfpipe.

And then they get to the pipe and blast into it with everything they have in order to make that first trick explode.

Once they actually drop into the half pipe it’s go time.  And if they’re good, they’re either going to have an amazing run or going to fall and make a complete mess of it.

(and then go back to the top and do it all over again)


We have to be willing to drop in…and do it sooner than later.

To be willing to make a move where it’s go time and we’re going big or falling down.

***A great way to drop into your halfpipe is to self-impose a deadline.

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It’s The People

It’s the people.

The people on your team. The people you’re with on the road. The people you’re succeeding and failing beside every day.

You have to love the people you’re doing all of this with.

Why?

Because you’re going to spend a long time doing it and you don’t get years of your life back.

Win lose or draw, doing it with people you love causes your life to be rich.

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We Do This Thing Where

As soon as you’re willing to say “We do this thing where…”

You’re setting yourself up for criticism.  You might get made fun of. You might get laughed at.

Even worse you may never actually know these things are happening but are in a constant state of speculation and fear that these things are happening behind your back just because you decided to do this thing where…

But the truth is now more than ever, you have to do this thing where…

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Smoke Breaks

There’s the episode of Friends where Rachel’s boss and colleagues all take smoke breaks together during the work day…Rachel doesn’t smoke, so she doesn’t take the break with them…but when they all return there’s all these little unofficially official decisions that were made during the smoke break.

There was a lot of connection happing during the smoke breaks so Rachel decides to become a smoker, and that way she can be a part of these little seeming meaningless but very meaningful moments of the work day.


I’m not suggesting you pick up smoking.

I’m not suggesting you ramp up your fear of missing out.

I’m suggesting that there’s a lot of good stuff in the in-between.  The little conversations between the conversations.  Not so much the quality time, but the garbage time. The garbage time is the good stuff.

I’m also suggesting that you have to be there. Sure you can work remote, but why not physically show up instead.  There’s so much unspoken, unplanned, seemingly random and important interactions that happen when you simply show up.

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...Of The World

We Are The Champions: Arguably the most epic song of all time.

The song ends with:

No time for losers
Cause we are the champions

He doesn’t sing the ‘Of the world’ at the very end!!!!!!!!!!!!

Growing up I always wanted that last line so badly to complete the phrase and have the song end back on the root chord.


But with the power of the internet…

Freddie would always add the last line when he sang it live!!! HERE.

And when he adds that line it’s such an amazing release.  He doesn’t have to add the line, but he does because it feels so good. It resolves like victory.


So it begs the question…Adding the last line was awesome for everyone in the audience…So why not add it to the recorded song thereby making the song better, thereby causing more people to show up to the show?

Because Freddie doing something he didn’t have to do is what made ‘Of the world’ so special. He added it special. Just for you. Just for me. Every time.

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