Daniel Coyle
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I don't like, I think it's persnickety.
I think the shoes hurt.
I've done it a couple of times.
I don't like it.
But my friend invited me and I kind of thought, okay, yellow door.
And I showed up and
then showed up the next week and showed up the next week.
And that group of six other guys has turned into this extraordinary group of close friends that we go on trips with and our families are friends now.
And it's grown into something that I never could have imagined when I had that invitation.
So for me, it's kind of looking for those signals that seem like weak signals at the time and are very easy to walk past, but it's pausing and approaching them with genuine curiosity.
And like anybody, I like to be efficient and like to go fast.
And it was a moment that would have absolutely changed my life if I had gone past it, but I didn't and I explored it.
On a deeper level, this kind of speaks to something that came as a surprise to me, which is the difference between complicated and complex.
Do those words resonate?
Is that distinction something that everybody already knows, Mike, do you think?
Me too, that's how I always did.
But they're not actually, when you look into it, when you look into the math and the science, they couldn't be more different.
And here it is, complicated things always come together the same way.
A leads to B leads to C leads to D, like a Ferrari car.
It's really complicated, but I could give you all the materials and the instructions.