🏋️ Leadership Is a Contact Sport — You Have to Practice It
You cannot get stronger by watching someone else lift weights — and leadership works the same way.
Listening to podcasts and reading books feels like learning, but real growth only comes from doing.
Two muscles you build every day:
- Avoidance muscle — choosing the easy, safe path
- Courage muscle — leaning into hard situations
Most people build avoidance without even realizing it. Train yourself to move toward the hard stuff.
Three types of players:
- Average — just want to be left alone
- Good — want to be coached
- Great — want the truth and push everyone around them
Decision making is a contact sport. You learn it by living it.
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