Put the worry of insecurity-fueled imposter syndrome to the side and do the damn work.

Here is today’s Game and what’s going on.

This is what I learned from Dave Hollis‘ book, Get Out of Your Own Way.

Today’s highlights and declaration come from the book’s second chapter, titled “Lie #2: The Things That Have Worked Are The Things That Will work.”  Let’s jump in:

• Success can mess with you just as much as failure.

• For me, I’ve had to unlearn two decades of a kind of leadership that made sense in one setting but doesn’t in this new one. This doesn’t mean the experience from the past isn’t valuable. Of course it is. It simply means that the experience from my past have to be put to use in a different kind of way. The things that got me here will not be the things that get me, our marriage, our kids, or our company where we need to go.

THINGS THAT CAN HELP YOU

1. Roll up your sleeves and do the work. What are the “jobs” in your relationships, your household, and your place of work that you don’t yet know how to do but need to? In a world that moves as quickly as the one we’re living in, leaning on how you were raised or what you learned in school may very well make you obsolete if you’re not willing to roll up your sleeves and do the work.
2. Ask every single possible question. There can be stigma against asking questions. If you ask a question about something you don’t know, does it reveal you to be a person who doesn’t know everything? You bet. So you have to choose, like I did, whether you want to be revealed as a person who doesn’t know everything in the attempt to know more, or if you want to be ignorant and full of pride. You may convince yourself that your pride is worth not knowing as much, but you won’t go as far or have nearly the impact as the person who’s informed.
3. Let your inexperience act as an opportunity instead of a liability. In any new environment, the willingness of an experienced operator to listen, learn, and then ask questions about pieces of the process can be a massive strength.

That leads us to today’s Dadly Daily Declaration:

Put the worry of insecurity-fueled imposter syndrome to the side and do the damn work.