Daniel Coyle
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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But they're creating conditions where things can grow in the right direction.
So providing a clear horizon, providing guardrails, you don't want your garden to just grow anywhere.
You want it to be here and not over there.
So creating guardrails, creating agency, and creating really a clear horizon to go toward ends up being, I love that, eyes on, hands off.
That's nice.
Well, in sports ends up being a beautiful place to test this stuff out.
Because I think, because performance is so transparent, because camaraderie is so transparent, because growth is so transparent, where in some business domains, it's harder to see.
So the fact that sports try stuff out first, I think is promising and great.
The depth, it's so interesting because I think what the SEALs are really, they're obviously good at breaking down doors.
They're obviously good at collaborating to do these incredibly intricate, very difficult operations together.
But one of the skills that I think is underrated is their ability to create meaning.
create meaning together, have these moments where they stop and really connect and where they also express what being a SEAL means.
You notice, we know there's obviously other groups that do special warfare, right?
There's Delta, there's Rangers, there's all these different other groups that are basically the same thing, these small teams that do stuff.
But the SEALs seem to have a unique ability to express what that connection means.
They're really good.
For example, they have a lot of mantras in the SEALs.
Like we do three things.
We shoot, move, and communicate.
And