So I heard / saw a quote a while ago that said "You'll never be able to take people to a higher place than you've taken yourself to." When I heard it, I was like "Damn, that's deep and true." But now after thinking about it a bit more, I don't think that's true. Professional sports coaches take players to championships when they themselves have either never won a championship or not been a player. Erik Spoelstra was a video guy and worked his way up to head coach to win 2 chips with LeBron, D Wade, and Bosh. So how did he bring out the best in his players and ultimately the team?
Actually this quote is exactly contradictory to the concepts of evolution and transformation, both on the macro and the micro scales LOL. To do something we've never done, to be someone we never could have imagined is a fundamental part of the human existence. We had never made it to the moon. Then by setting out that vision, in ~10 years that actually happened. That literally goes against this quote lmao.
So with that debunked, the question then becomes, not "can we take people to a higher level than we've been to ourselves?" but "how can we take people to a higher place than you've taken yourself to?" Hmm. Actually, I'd say this is the exact definition of inspiration! To not only push our limits, but to transcend those limits. Only by creating new ways of living and being can we advance physically, emotionally, spiritually, mentally. To transform individually and evolve collectively.
One way to answer my question is to lead by example. If I can live a life of excellence, then I will attract those into my life who are also on that path of realizing their full potential. If I then have many people who are operating at that frequency, then the potential energy is greater together than it would be alone. And when there's more potential, that can get translated into realizing more of that potential, aka doing more together.
The answer to the question, then, is contained within the question itself. "People" is plural. "Yourself" is singular. You can always achieve more collectively than individually. But there's a huge but here. It comes back to vision, alignment, and focus. Everyone has to understand the vision of what they want to do / who they want to be. It comes back to vision, alignment, and focus. Then alignment on how to get there. And focus on only doing those things.
But the thing is how can I expect you to have a group vision, alignment, and focus when you can't even have a personal vision, alignment, and focus? So then the key here is in order to take others to a higher place, you need to take each individual person to a higher version of themselves first, and then taking the group to a higher place will automatically happen.
I think the course that I'm starting to ideate and put together is the first step towards making that vision a reality.
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