A Little More Chemistry

Flour, water, yeast and salt come together to make a wonderful, timeless loaf of bread.

However if the water decides not to show up, you don’t have three-fourths of a wonderful, timeless loaf of bread. You don’t have bread at all. It’s possible to make something completely different, especially if you recruit a new ingredient or two…but it’s silly for the flour, yeast and salt to go on acting like they’re pretty much a loaf of bread. The water is gone. It’s time to redefine the whole thing.

»» I got a lot of really interesting replies from the post yesterday. Many with the underlying sentiment of…Initially you either have the spark with a person/group or you don’t (nature), but if you have even a tiny spark it can be grown (nurture) into certain level of magical chemistry. Something to think about.

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Chemistry Class

I know if you show up everyday and write you’ll get better at writing.

And this is the case with most anything. We get better at the things we’re consistent with.

But I’ve been hitting a snag…

What about chemistry…Can it be grown? Is it fundamentally there or not there within certain combinations of people? Can you get better at having it? Better at creating it?

Certainly we can actively develop richer relationships, get to know the people around us, learn to be better leaders and followers…but in my experience magical chemistry is different.

If there isn’t magic chemistry within a group, is the only option to change personnel? Or can you tweak and learn and grow it with the existing crew?

The moment before John and Paul met, the didn’t have chemistry…yet. And I’ll surmise it wasn’t there till at least thirty seconds into their relationship. So what was developing in those thirty seconds that wasn’t there before?

In the same breath…Pete Best was replaced for more than just drum skills. Ringo was the glue they needed, the glue that Pete wasn’t. So the question here is, could Pete have developed that role over time?

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Taking A Video

You want people to take a video.

But what you really want is for people to post the video.

A great way to get people to post the video is to tell people not to take a video.

»» Another great way to get people to post the video is to do something or make them feel something exceptional.

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Overtime. Over Time.

Overtime. We all know about this. Sometimes we have to do it. Things go wrong, new problems arise but the deadline stays the same, so some long days are called for.

Over time. Most of us don’t have a very good understanding of the effect of our work over time. We have a funny relationship with time. We know that it’s powerful but don’t grasp the exponential potential for what it can do for our plans.

Work overtime when it’s needed.

Your work, over time, is effective.

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Not Ignored By Everyone

There’s the phrase ‘be so good that they can’t ignore you’…but we know good and worthwhile things get ignored all the time.

A more helpful phrase might be...

You’re good enough that a few people aren’t ignoring you…why aren’t they?

This answer is the key to better and bigger.

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Having A Good Time In Nashville

The best way to have a good time in Nashville is to come to Nashville and not be constantly asking yourself if you’re having a good time.

If you’re constantly asking yourself ‘Am I having a good time in Nashville’ you’d get bored if you had the same answer each time…so your answers vary. Am I having a good time in Nashville at this moment? How about this one? What about now? And how does this moment stack up to the last one?

Within a day or an hour you’ve answered the question a thousand times…and now you’re pretty confused as to whether or not you’re having a good time because your answers have spanned a wide range.

There’s a time and a place to assess and reflect but no need to assess and reflect about right now, right now.

»» And Nashville could be anywhere, anyone, anything.

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