Simon Sinek
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Superficially, it's stronger.
But in reality, it's cowardice.
If you want to be an elite warrior, you better get really, really good at helping the person to the left of you and helping the person to the right of you.
Because that's how people advance in the world.
I don't like the conversations of strengths and weaknesses because strengths often have liability.
I'm really confident.
Okay, in the wrong context, you're arrogant.
But weaknesses also have silver linings.
Yes, it's important for us to understand our characteristics.
that we exhibit, of which some of them in certain contexts are huge strengths, and some of the exact same characteristics in the wrong context are huge weaknesses, right?
So we have to be very careful when we label people or generations as being strong or weak, because the answer is it depends.
We have to take the time to foster and take care of people around us, to nurture our relationships, because when we're gonna be doing something difficult, when we're gonna be swimming upstream, when we're gonna be innovating and doing something different,
There are days we're going to doubt ourselves.
There are days we're going to get knocked on our ass.
There are days that storms are going to rise.
And we have to have people who say, I got your back.
You need to do this.
There's no such thing as winning global politics.
And there's definitely no such thing as winning business.
Business is an infinite game.