Patrick McAndrew

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The Action Catalyst · Master the Game Within, with Patrick McAndrew (Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Self-Improvement, Focus) · 21 Jan 2025 podcast

And that was a very interesting experience because I realized, you know, if you want to pay, I don't know, what is it? It's somewhere in the region, like 160 or 180,000 for an MBA at Columbia University. I got to go in and see those people in that room. Amazing networking, amazing conceptual frameworks and models and ways of thinking about business.

But so much of business is about your own internal game. You know, the actual dynamics of business are not that difficult. There are problems which need to be solved. Absolutely. And problems keep arising. But what's the challenge there? Well, the inherent challenge is the capacity to sustain change and the capacity to be malleable and adaptive. I think that's what our unique concept

capacity as human beings are, is this capacity to mutate, to be one way and then to recognize that the environment has changed. I must mutate into another way. But yet I can retain my true essence. I don't lose myself under the conditions of the environment. I maintain myself, but I'm not bound to this identity. I'm good at this or I like this.

So therefore I'm only going to try and find a business that operates on the fundamentals of me being very good at doing stuff on a computer, but I don't want to interact with people in person. Well, I've just cut off so much opportunity to myself. So maybe if I can develop certain qualities of how I engage with others, much more will show for me.

So I saw in all of these environments that I went into that these people are learning a lot of information, but it's not taking them so far because they're not learning about themselves. In fact, they're neglecting themselves. They're only trying to develop this 10% area, which it feels like it's directly relevant to business.

But there's this other 90% which determines your clarity, your conviction, your essence, your value, your sense of self-worth. And if you're clear in all of that, you can achieve a whole lot more and you can feel content and you can feel like your whole life is... is in alignment. It doesn't feel like it's so fragmented.

So I began in that journey by teaching people about focus because that was the thing through my exposure to different environments of teaching speed reading. I realized, wow, okay, these people that I'm meeting, they're very driven. They're not lacking motivation yet. Companies are spending, you know, thousands, tens of thousands, every conference for a motivational speaker.

The people don't need motivation. They've plenty, they've plenty drive. What they lack is a pragmatic sense of how to organize themselves. They're missing internal structure. It's pretty chaotic in there. So the first place that I approached was focus because I thought that people needed help with focus, which they did.

But then over years and years of doing that, working with Pacific Life, Lincoln Financial, Morgan Stanley, all these companies, I realized, okay, I can teach you how to focus and I can make you very good at doing the tasks efficiently, but there's a deeper problem there. There's a much deeper problem and it's your capacity to regulate yourself.

It's your capacity to actually regulate and relate to yourself. And that's actually more of the foundational layer that causes a lot of the problems that leadership problems, strategic problems. There's a company I got called in to work with last November. They had 26 primary initiatives. The word primary and 26. And initiative and 26. Yeah, it's not all aligning. But where is that coming from?

That's not coming from the fact that these people aren't intelligent enough. It's actually coming from more of a place that their whole emotional state is so scattered and so fragmented because they don't feel safe and secure in their work. They're unsure about this industry. It's going through such rapid change like many are.

So a lot of the problems that are appearing across the company as a totality and the individuals within it, much more about an internal thing that's happening. And a lot of my work previously was building fundamental qualities in people so that they could improve their reading and their memory and their focus so that they could actually start to take action.

But now I'm sort of interested in working with people who have no issue taking action, who have no issue getting things done. but yet there is a barrier. There's some sort of an internal block that's confusing.

Either they have developed far beyond the business and the business is not catching up to them, so it feels like it's out of alignment, or the business has developed far beyond them and they've been pouring so much into the business, but as an individual, they're still quite underdeveloped in comparison to the demands of the business. So how do we calibrate these two?

And if we do, it means that things move a lot more smoothly and they progress much more in the right direction.

I don't see a lot of self-confidence. I see a huge amount of fear. I see a lot of people who where their fuel source is coming from growing up in poverty and they never want to be in that environment again or feeling maybe once again poverty but feeling trapped, feeling like they didn't have choice. So what they want is they want money that's going to give them the freedom to choose.

There was a gentleman that I spoke with not so long ago and I asked him, if you were to kind of look outside of yourself, what do you orbit? And for this gentleman, it was money and power. He was able to say it very quickly that that's what it was. He was very accomplished, but he was extremely exhausted. But he couldn't seem to stop his relentless pursuit of whatever he seemed to be pursuing.

And it was more money and more power. Now, as our conversation progressed, at the root of it, he just wanted some love and self-acceptance. This is not bad. This is fine. It's part of the development of the human being and of the psyche. We come from a place of pain and we try to transmute that pain into something that will take us forward because we don't want it to hold us back.

So maybe we develop another character. We develop this man or this woman who's able to amass money or power And now people are drawn to us because of the money and the power or the knowledge or the capacity to get things done or to help things in the community. And now people value you and see you for these qualities and these capacities.

But underneath that, as soon as that is taken away, the business or taking action every day, there's a huge amount of insecurity. There's a huge amount of insecurity and that causes a huge amount of pain and limitation on the business that ends up getting created.

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