Robert Glazer

Publishers don't like compilation books.

However, I think there's something deeper in here.

What is the story behind the stories?

I would encourage you to think that.

And so I...

I spent 18 months kind of writing and going through it and being like, okay, I've been writing these stories.

They've been resonating.

Why am I doing it?

What is it?

And that whole soul searching came up with, this is about building capacity.

And if I look at all of these stories, they fall across one of these four dimensions of building capacity, spiritual, intellectual, physical, and emotional.

And that became the framework for the book.

And then rather than going and grabbing the individual stories, I actually did publish that book later on.

But I went and took the thematic things and organized it around that principle.

So elevate was how to build your personal capacity, because I think a lot of growth these days is kind of steroid artificial growth.

We grow from growing from within, not because we're dragged into a growth.

situation and how do you how do you start with the the spiritual piece which is again your values and what you're good at and that led me to the problem of everyone saying hey i i'm with you on this core values thing and how do i how do i do it and i'm like well don't have an easy thing to send you intellectual capacity which is how you learn plan execute get better physical capacity which is your mental and physical wellness and emotional which is

how you relate to people and the locus of control and all the things kind of outside of you.

So in Elevate, it was about how you apply it to yourself.

And then in Elevate your team, it was the same framework, but how do you apply this as a leader in an organization?