🤝 Finding Your Perfect Support Partner
The most important skill in today's world is the ability to drive change - and nobody does it alone.
The Support Ladder (from lowest to highest):
- No support at all
- AI or technology
- Therapists (quality varies)
- Training Partners (TPs) - the gold standard
A great Training Partner is someone in the arena with you. They feel the consequences of their advice, so they actually care about being accurate - not just nice, not just critical.
Without good support, our brains can get addicted to negative thinking, making up problems and blowing them up bigger and bigger.
Ray Dalio's keys to handling tough times:
- Be radically transparent
- Admit that change is hard
- Keep communication open and honest
A great TP helps you do all three.
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