Ranjay Gulati

And you can do a lot for yourself.

Self-interest drives you very far.

He said, my job is to connect them to something more than themselves.

I want to connect them to their teammates, to each other.

I want to connect them to the team as a collective, feeling proud of the team.

I want to connect them to me.

They're playing for me as a coach.

And when you start to do something for something bigger than yourself,

You up your game.

And the Marines do this too, by the way.

Semper Fidelis.

In the Marine Corps, you're fighting for each other.

Always faithful.

Some even talk about it as relative fear.

The fear of letting your teammates down is greater than the fear of dying.

So I think we have to understand how these kinds of people find interesting ways to deal with this thing we call fear, which is a natural human impulse.

And once they find their way to work through fear, I know you know the work on regret.

And research by some Cornell professors like 25 years ago showed that people have much more regret in life about inaction than action.

Yeah.

If we can only resource ourselves in dealing with fear, a lot of things open up for us.