Stepping In Wet Paint
Wearing The Uniform
Most people at the driving range wear pretty much the same thing.
Most people have the yard work outfit.
Most people in the green room look the same.
The uniforms are completely made up. You don’t have to wear them in order to do the thing. But they can be helpful.
They give us the feeling of being part of the group. They’re a signal to the people we want to be connected to and a story about what that connection means.
It’s also a signal to ourselves about what we’re about to do.
Putting on the shirt or the hat or the leather jacket tells your brain to get into the zone…because that’s what you did last time you put it on.
How Can I Read Your Mind Better?
i.e. What are your unspoken expectations?
This is at the heart of so much heartbreak and frustration in this business.
Our personal expectations are ‘just the way it is’…and it’s easy to think they’re shared by others…or at least they should have read my mind by now.
It’s worth asking the people around you what they’re really hoping for. You’re sure to learn something new. Something they’ve been thinking all along but secretly expecting you to just read their mind.
You’re good but you’re not that good. You’re going to have to ask.
Who Is Going To Get The Credit?
We don’t start off asking this question…but when we get to the end of the project and the answer isn’t ‘me’, we have a problem with that.
So it’s worth considering if that question and answer was part of the driving force from the beginning, even without noticing it. Because no one is walking around thinking they’ve been given enough credit…we could all use a little more and maybe THIS time I’ll finally get mine.
Everyone is thinking a version of the same thing (I just want a little bit. I just want my fair share. I just don’t want that other person to get so much).
When the project has been completed and there’s a big stack of credit to be had, are you going to claim all that you can or give all that you can?
Try A Playlist
First Monday of the month means new Hum Love playlist on Spotify and Apple
Making and sharing a playlist every month has it’s a bunch of free and wonderful benefits…
-it’s free
-you to listen to new music
-your taste is developed
-others get to check out your taste
-it grows your own creativity
-it’s fun playing A&R guy
-finding a diamond in the rough is exhilarating
Give it a try.