**April 4, 2023** #### #### Links [Transistor](https://share.transistor.fm/s/ebb34697) [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/episode/5z6xB4ZcBXQ7z9RnbjFxQ5) [Google Podcasts](https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy50cmFuc2lzdG9yLmZtL2Vzc2VudGlhbC1keW5hbWljcy13aXRoLWRlcmVrLWh1ZHNvbg/episode/Nzk5MzViMjgtZjRlNi00ZmVhLWFmYTYtN2YxYTViZmUzOTNl?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjY5_LazJD-AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ) [Apple Podcasts](https://share.transistor.fm/s/ebb34697) [Podcast Addict](https://podcastaddict.com/episode/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.transistor.fm%2Febb34697%2Fc111833c.mp3&podcastId=3153944) #### Summary - Dr. Marvin Washington shares how having a life plan can help you get clear on your quest and deal with unexpected opportunities. #### Concepts - [[Quest]] - [[Opposition]] - [[Value Creation System]] #### Quotes >What systems thinking is trying to do is to say it's one picture, it's not 10 small pictures. It's one picture. How do we not lose sight of the one picture? >We wanted to stop and have people really internalize, why are they raising their hand to solve these problems? And in some cases, they begged to solve these problems. >I love your phrase of "what's the quest?". Because in some sense I'm asking you to stop and to think about what quest are you actually on, and it may be different than the quest of the person that had the job before you. >All the quests you choose you almost relish some of the bad because it creates grit, determination, it's a cool story afterward. >We've lost the capacity to sit with difficult questions. Now, as soon as I start to sit with it, I Google it, I YouTube it, I TikTok it... That's just not how these quests work. >No coach can make the player want to play. If the player doesn't want to play, no coach can make that happen. >Your question is, why are you choosing this hard work? Because you can go do something else, but that something else will be hard as well. >This is the one place where a half-ass answer is better than no-ass answer. Like, write something down, put it in pencil, I don't care - because it's the reflection on the document that's more important than actually what you write down. So you need to get it out of you on paper. >But we're not predicting the future, we're imagining the future. >I call it the second stress. Work is stressful, but sometimes we get stressed over the stress of work. And so having a plan helps us with the second stress. >If it was that easy, the last person would have figured it out. #### See also - Books cited: - [Lead Self First Before Leading Others A Life Planning Resource](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40564551-lead-self-first-before-leading-others), Stephen K Hacker, Marvin Washington - [Self as Coach, Self as Leader: Developing the Best in You to Develop the Best in Others](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41861372-self-as-coach-self-as-leader?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=q4zfPCvEid&rank=1), Pamela McLean - [[Episode 61 Ann MacTaggart - The Business Model is the Boss]] - [[Episode 70 Marvin Washington - It's Their Question, It's Their Quest]] - Dr. Marvin Washington is at [marvinwashington.com](https://marvinwashington.com/) - Derek Hudson is at [getunconstrained.com](https://getunconstrained.com/) %% # Outtakes - how hard is it to tie Essential Dynamics into Marvin's book Lead Self First Before Leading Others. - Quest; People, Path, Purpose - Life Plan and Business model allow you to get outside what you do and improve it - look for drivers and constraints - My big question ![[Pasted image 20230306143337.png]] >It's such a great opportunity. I mean, the University is really trying to take seriously one of the biggest challenges of universities, which is siloed thinking.