Quotes About Challenge

If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader." As

Group A defined the challenge of anxiety as finding ways to manage and soothe the anxiety, while Group B clearly defined the problem as changing the behaviors that led to anxiety.

The MIDDLE is messy, but it's also where the MAGIC happens.

It's an unraveling—a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you're "supposed" to live. The unraveling is a time when you are challenged by the universe to let go of who you think you are supposed to be and to embrace who you are.

When all that binds us is what we believe rather than who we are, changing our mind or challenging the collective ideology is risky.

For me, if you're not in the arena getting your ass kicked, I'm not interested in your feedback.

there is no effort without error

The looming threat of blowback should we voice an opinion or idea that challenges our bunker maters keeps us anxious. When all that binds us is what we believe rather than who we are, changing our mind or challenging the collective ideology is risky.

the goal is not "getting comfortable with hard conversations" but normalizing discomfort. If leaders expect real learning, critical thinking, and change, then discomfort should be normalized: "We believe growth and learning are uncomfortable so it's going to happen here—you're going to feel that way. We want you to know that it's normal and it's an expectation here. You're not alone and we ask that you stay open and lean into it.

I've never achieved a single thing in my career comfortably.

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?" I pushed that question out of my head to make room for a new question. As I walked up to the stage, I literally whispered aloud, "What's worth doing even if I fail?

You give up a lot when you venture into an environment that you can't control and where your senses don't serve you in dependable ways.

Regardless of the complexity of the concepts, studying leadership is way easier than leading.

I'd love to skip over the hard stuff, but it just doesn't work. We don't change, we don't grow, and we don't move forward without the work.

You are halfway across a tightrope, and moving forward and going back are both just as scary.

Asking leaders to answer this question is almost always difficult because they quickly move to believing that if people are doing the best they can, they don't know how to lead them. Their strategies of pushing and grinding on the same issues must give way to the difficult tasks of teaching their team, reassessing their skill gaps, reassigning them, or letting them go.

What's worth doing even if I fail?

Cuando el fracaso no es una opción, olvidémonos del aprendizaje, de la creatividad y de la innovación.

Fortune may favor the bold, but so does failure.

complexity is one of our greatest teachers.

If you're not in the arena with the rest of us, fighting and getting your ass kicked on occasion, I'm not interested in your feedback.) HOW

When we experience something that is difficult and requires significant time and effort, we are quick to think, This is supposed to be easy; it's not worth the effort, or, This should be easier: it's only hard and slow because I'm not good at it. Hopeful self-talk sounds more like, This is tough, but I can do it.

Boredom is the uncomfortable state of wanting to engage in satisfying activity, but being unable to do it. When we're bored we experience a lack of stimulation, time seems to pass very slowly, and if we're working on tasks, they seem to lack challenge and meaning.

If you are not in the arena getting your ass kicked on occasion, I am not interested in or open to your feedback.