YouSaid · the spoken record

John Maxwell

lines on the record: 71
first: 2020-03-31
most recent: 2020-03-31
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

Every line below is reproduced as it was said and linked to the record it came from. Nothing here is summarised or generated. Directory · Search · Corrections

“It's not only that they value others, but they value them in such a way They want to add value to them. And now all of a sudden you're not only your brother's keeper, you're your brother's lifter. And now Every time they are around you and every time they see you and experience you, it's better for them. And I think that the moment that you live for others, value others, And intentionally add value to them. I think you're living the fulfilled life.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, a fulfilled life is one that I have forgotten myself or I haven't forgotten. That's not a good phrase. I've gotten over myself. I don't think we forget ourselves. I don't think that's. What I want to go to, but what I have the ability to realize that focus has got to be on others, not myself. If you put that with valuing people. What happens when I value people? I now begin to respect them in such a way that That I will add value to them. Remember this you only add value to the things that you value. You only add value to the people that you value. So valuing people is core to living a fulfilled life. So it's not about me. It's about others. And it's about others because they have value. And then you put on top of those two thoughts. This one because this is huge. And I love this one.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Get over yourself. Just get over yourself. If I haven't gotten over who I am and I have got to, well, I hope they like me. I hope I sound good. I hope they think I'm a good teacher. I hope I've got some depth. The moment that I'm concerned about how people perceive me is the moment that I begin to put limitations on my communication skills. And so I tell people all the time, if you want to be a great communicator, get over yourself. Well, if you want to live a fulfilled life, Get over yourself The reason for that is that we are created and designed to be people that help each other. Society and culture works best when we are our brothers keeper. It works best when we value other people.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I love the question. And I love it for two reasons. A fulfilled life I love that question because I think it's possible to have one. And I think many people do not. And I love that question not only because I think it's possible to have one. I love that question because I believe that most people don't know the process to have a fulfilled life. And so when anybody asked me a question that I think Is within reach of a person. I get very excited because it improves them. So I think a fulfilled life is a life is lived for others, and that it's not about me. I teach a lot of communication. And when people say, I want to be a great communicator. Rule or law number one is very simple. If you want to be a great communicator.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Turns experience into insight. And so the moment that I realized that if I spent some time reflecting, I'm going to pull out what that experience taught me. So I tell people, get beyond how you felt and ask yourself, you know, what did you learn? What did you know? What did you experience that has potential to make you a better person?”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'd always started with what do you love because kids migrate to, oh, dad, that was so much fun. Okay, you love that. Well, what did you learn from it? Well, what I was doing by those two questions is I was training my children to evaluate every experience that they go through. And what does evaluation do to the experience? Again, it brings an awareness to us. And anything that... Awakens our awareness or brings it into a much more clear light. It's a real benefit to us. And so as I look at where I've come through and what I've done and where I'm going, there's without any question about it. The ability to reflect reflect”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I'll be glad to. We hear a lot, people say, like experience is the best teacher. Well, it's a wonderful statement. It's just not true. If experience were the best teacher Everybody as they got older would be getting better. And so. When I think of experience being the best teacher, I look and say, no, a lot of people go through experiences and they learn nothing. And they don't improve themselves. I think evaluated experience is the best teacher. I think after the experience we pull ourselves away and ask ourselves what did I learn from that? What did that experience have to teach me my children when they were growing up when we'd have an experience I'd ask them two questions What did you love? What did you learn?”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Be a person that in the long run would lack character. Because character is literally birthed out of adversity and you really never know much about a person until you watch them go through adversity. And then all of a sudden, quote, the true colors begin to show. And so, you know, what I have liked to have made all right decisions, well, I suppose for the ego I would have, but I think I'm a better person because of my mistakes and figures and what I've learned from them than if I wouldn't have had the mistakes and failures. I think it makes me more human toward other people. I think it makes me more understanding to them as a leader. It removes the gap, and I think that's important.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When I look at my failures and mistakes, Shane, honestly, somebody say, would you like to go back and do them over? Would you like to have another chance? And there are a lot of things I should do over. Of course there are. But I don't think I want to do them over. I really. I just don't think, and here's why When I look at my failures of mistakes and misses What I learned from those difficult hours in that dark times what I learned really helped develop my character. To have all wins and no losses is”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think that they would see a pretty amazing attitude at a young age, but they wouldn't see amazing leadership, and they wouldn't see and hear amazing communication. And I think the reason I hate that this can't... They can't see this is that they don't get a complete picture. They just have the finished product. And the finished product looks a lot better than what really the life was all about. So I feel as a leader. Compelled literally to let people know about my failures and my mistakes and let them know that I didn't always make the right decisions. And in fact, I'm not even certain making the right decisions is even right. I mean,”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And where they would see me making my mistakes and questioning what I was thinking or what I was doing. And they would see my hesitations. And they would hear my apologies when I'd look at the people and say, oops, I'm sorry, I missed that one. And we got to do a little U-turn here. We got to back up. Because if they could see me in my beginning days, they would understand the power of process and compounding because, first of all, they'd be very encouraged. Because I wasn't exceptional in the beginning. I don't think there was anything exceptional about me. If there was anything exceptional about me, it would be my attitude. I think my attitude was way above most people's as far as not quitting and getting back up and being my best friend and encouraging myself.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Encourage people to reach their potential, what would you do? What I would do is I would be able to show them how I got started. I would be able to put on the video. where they would hear me speak when I wasn't a good speaker.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so that what I'm succeeding, there will be some misses. When I'm missing, if my spirit and attitude is right, I'll get some hits. And it's not like my life has been all misses and no hits or it's been all hits and no misses. It's been hits and misses. And I think that a mistake that leaders make, Shane, is they don't talk enough about the misses. And so what happens is people see a successful person and they begin to idealize way too quickly. And that bothers me greatly. I tell people, I mean, they're seeing me at a good time in my life and a high return time in my life. And my biggest disappointment, if somebody said, John, if you could do one thing, one thing and only one thing.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And they not only meet, they live together, and that with every success inside of that success failure. And I've never met anybody who just said, you know, I built the company in honest to God. It was easier than I thought. And we built it quicker than I thought. And we've made more money than I thought. You know, that person's not building a company. They're on drugs. I mean, they're delusional. It's just not possible. And so if I believe that everything worthwhile is uphill. It gives me a mindset that I will always be climbing. No such thing as it's uphill and then it's downhill. No, no, it's all uphill. It's all uphill. And so I now start my life based on the fact that I'm going to have to consistently climb. Now, if I also help people understand that success and failures, they go together.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“or that there's a secret to success, which there isn't. I think we set people up for failure. And the moment that I no longer easier, the moment that I'm not finding that secret, I begin to question myself. And so I think it all begins with a mindset of life is difficult, everything worthwhile is uphill. I think we also have to teach with this mindset. Not only is everything worthwhile, it's uphill, but I think we need to teach the value of failure and the value of mistakes and shortcomings and humanness. I don't think that failure is the opposite of success at all. And I think this is a big mistake people make. I think it's kind of like failure is in one corner and successes in the opposite corner. And boy, you just don't want the. Of them to meet”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, I've had so many of those times. That's why I'm laughing, Shane. First of all, when you see anybody and you just say, I think things come easy for them or they seem to be quite simple. You're just not seeing the total picture. You may be seeing a person that's just produced something wonderful or had a high return or a terrific result. So yeah, that you may be seeing. But it's like the iceberg, you know, two-thirds of the issues under the water. You may be seeing the tip of the iceberg and it all looks good. But trust me, one of the things I teach people all the time is that Everything worthwhile is uphill. And it just is. And I think the greatest way to build tenacity in a person's life. Is to let them know in the beginning that it's not easy. Because I think that when we assume that success should be easy,”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We overestimate chain what we can do in a day, and we overestimate the event and we underestimate the process. And again, developing leaders is all about not just for today and equipping them to do something in leadership right now, but it's all about building people and developing people and expanding their life so that they are bigger people and they're bigger people and they're better people. And that just makes everything bigger and better for you as far as the return.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that was life changing for me. I mean, to this day, if you're goal-oriented, there's a finish line. If you're growth-oriented, there's no finish line at all. Yeah, and the leader's greatest return again takes us back to the fact that we want to grow ourselves and we want to grow our people. And if we'll just commit it, be committed to growing them and growing ourselves, then we have potential of having a very high return. But you're in the game for the process, you know, again.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah, it's at $799. And it was all on goal setting. And so I'm very grateful I took the course and listened to all the tapes and did all the exercises. And it helped me immensely. And so, you know, I started off being very goal-oriented. But remember, if I go back to the story of my mentor, you know, who said he wrote books to influence people, if I want to influence people, what will I write about? And I came up with relationships, equipping attitude, leadership. The moment I began to focus on being a person that relationally connects with people. Being a person that develops teams, being a person that has an attitude that just absolutely gets me through the dark times. Being a person that influences leads me. The moment that I tried to be that kind of a person, I left the goal side and I went to the gross side.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly right. When you're goal oriented, you basically are looking for a number or a time and a date and you judge how well you did by, you know, did you hit that goal or did you reach that timeline? And we began to lose sight of the fact that if we're growth oriented, we're continually developing ourselves. We'll hit all of our goals. helps you reach your milestones in life. But the difference is that if you're continually growing, if you reach one of those milestones, it's not the finish line. It's not like, okay, now what do I do with my life? How many times have I seen people who are goal-oriented and they worked hard and they finally hit that goal? And then they kind of almost lost their way instead of understanding the value of growth. Now, when I started off as a young leader,”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Totally. You're exactly right. In fact, I think the mistake most people make is they're goal-oriented instead of growth-oriented.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because it's in the learning from our failures that really allow us to do very well and just really to excel. So you test, you fail, you improve, or you learn. And the value of learning is to improve. Learning is overrated unless it brings positive change in our life. And when you approve and get better, guess what? Then you re-enter. And you're back in the game. And when you re-enter, guess what you're going to do again? You're going to test, fail, learn improve, and re-enter. And that learning, unlearning, relearning cycle really, really never once, never stops. You never wanted to stop. Because you've got to continually do the testing, pushing the envelope. Have some failure to learn from it, to improve and make self better so that you can get back in the game.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“By the way, failure, and I think people miss this all the time too, Shane, failure is not the opposite of success. It's not like they're way apart and you're either succeeding or you're failing. And if you're failing, you're not succeeding. And failure and success go together. They're not even supposed to be a part. It's not like I succeeded and never failed or I always failed and never succeeded. In all success, there's quite a bit of failure. And the reason that Heidi's successful people fail a lot is because they learn from it. The value of failing is learning. So when people talk to me and they say, well, you know, John, Wow, I've messed up in this area and I failed. I could hardly wait for him to finish the story so I could ask him a very simple question. Well, what did you learn from that?”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Have 30,000 plus coaches, 162 countries around the world. And it's just been the fastest growing, the largest successful coaching company in the world. And people ask me all the time, how's that been successful? Well, we have a cycle of success that we go through, and that cycle has five parts to it. The first part is to test. Okay, let's go try something. Not even really sure that it'll work, but we need some new ideas. And so let's go try it. right behind the test is the failure. If you test a lot of new things, you're going to fail in a lot of them because you've never tried it before. And, you know, often I say we're never good the first time. And so you test and you fail. In fact, the reason you test is to find out what works and you find out what doesn't work. Now, when we fail,”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I found that this learning, unlearning, relearning process is essential to a person's success. And in fact, I wrote another book, Leader Shift. And in that, I talk about this process of learning, unlearning, and relearning. You know, Harvard Business Review in the last year has come out with a statement that if you have a bachelor's degree in five years, that bachelor's degree only has about a five-year shelf like this. And, well, what does that say? That being true, I've got to keep learning new things. And what I learned in college, I've got to unlearn. And then I've got to turn around and relearn again. And that cycled never stops of learning, unlearning, and relearning. We have a wonderful covenant called The John Maxwell Team. It's a coaching company.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I wasn't helping people, but I was trying to get them all to like me and like what I was saying. And one day I came to the realization that I'm supposed to be a leader, not a clown. So let's just be honest with people. And hey, do it in the right way. Do it privately. Always have their best interest at heart. I mean, I can give you a whole list of ways to approach people, but we don't help people by letting them stay in their areas of blind spots and awareness. There's no improvement to be made there. And people say, well, I think as they get older, they're going to get better. No. If it's a blind spot, they're not going to get better as they get older. They're just going to get a little more blind. And so I think we really help people when we are open with them and kind. And obviously you do it. There's a right way to do that.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Here's what I do know. If you go up to the top of a four-story building and jump off very quickly, you buy into the law of gravity. I mean, the law of gravity doesn't ask you if you buy into it or you agree with it. It's just a law. And I looked at him that day and I said, you know, I said, I don't write books to make you happy. I write books to help you. That's just life-changing once you realize that in my beginning leadership career, I just tried to make everybody happy.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I smiled and I said, well, that's okay. I signed the book and handed it back to him. He never moved. He said, wait. He said, I don't think you understood me. He said, I read the 21 laws. And he said, I disagree with one of those laws. I can't smile. And I said, I understand what you said. And it's okay. It's okay. You don't have to agree with all the laws. I'm okay with that. Well, I was okay with that, but he wasn't okay with that. So he's kind of, you know, kind of wanted to press me a little bit more. And it's kind of like somebody coming up to a machine and saying they don't agree with the law of gravity. Well, okay. It's okay. I mean, I guess it's okay.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think that I think a lot of times we don't speak into another person's life. Because we don't want to hurt them. Maybe we want them to like us as a young leader. One of my greatest weaknesses was that I wanted to make everybody happy. And I mistakenly thought that good leaders made everybody happy. And so I was much more concerned on making them happy than I was helping them. And in fact, I remember when I wrote the 21 irrefutable laws of leadership, I was signing books, Shane. So this guy brought up the 21 Laws book to me and I started signing it. And he said, John, he said, I've read the book. And he said, I disagree with one of your laws.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To be honest with you, you know, Max DePriest had the first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. And the first definition of reality, I have to have as a leader is for myself. And the moment that I can do that, I build a foundation for me to now build leadership on. And that's a big difference. And, you know, I tell people if they want to reach their dreams, make sure your foundation is solid and realistic.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah. I don't think they purposely go down the wrong path. I just think that they're unaware. And somebody has to come alongside and help me to see myself. And I told somebody one time, I said, you know, blind spots means that they're blind spots. You have no idea. You're totally surprised when all of a sudden you see something that you have never seen before. And one of the greatest things we could do for others is to come alongside of them and help them with those areas. And again, in the leader's greatest return, I talk about that. I talk about the fact that with the people that are on your team, they need to make some tweaking. They need to make some adjusting. And I can either let them go and quote offend them, or I can basically look at them and say, look, I care enough for you that I'm going to confront you on this issue. I care enough for you to...”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I think that most of my sabotaging self-leadership issues has been the fact that I was unaware. I don't think people purposely.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Why would I want someone else to follow me? To be honest with you, a lot of people, they wouldn't be able to and wouldn't want to follow themselves because they haven't done that.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No question. People ask me what my greatest leadership challenge is, and I always tell them what my greatest challenge is a leader is leading me. You know, it's easy to tell other people what to do or, you know, it's easy to say go ahead and charge that hill, but I got to go charge that hill and I've got to make these improvements and it's easier to tell somebody what to do than to do it yourself. So I think all great leadership with others begins with personal leadership myself. The first victory I want to have in my life is a personal one. And if I've got a few of those, I can help you get some victories in your life also, but I definitely believe that the credibility of leadership, the confidence of leadership all begins when I lead myself well. If I can lead myself well, then I've got potential leading you well. But if I can't lead myself well, you know.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Once they do the things that they need to do to get a few winds under their belt, then that cuff, they own it. Now, I don't have to continually give them affirmation. I think affirmation is very important, but they're not waiting on that because they now have experienced some success themselves. And so they have that self-confidence that really allows them to achieve on a higher level.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And if you're just affirming me, but I'm not seeing results in my life, that confidence gets shaken very quickly. But if I've lived in an affirming kind of a culture, and then I'm starting to see some success, I'm getting some winds on my belt, now all of a sudden this confidence begins. I begin to own it. I'm not borrowing belief from someone else. I'm now experiencing belief from what I've seen accomplish. And I think, Shane, that is a big turn for a lot of people in their life, that once they...”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I think that in confidence developing a leadership culture where people have an opportunity in one chapter, I talk about come to the leadership table where they have an opportunity to get in a leadership environment and get a leadership discussion and ask leadership questions, have leadership interaction. It's at that table that they kind of get emboldened to practice leadership and how a person really develops their leadership skills or develops the skills and leadership of others is by practice, by doing it. And here's what I know. If I have some success in leading others and get some wins under my belt, all of us that is given to me by accomplishment.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That confidence will become very shallow and very hollow after a while. And that's why I tell people, you know, you could, like for a parent, you could affirm your children, tell them they're wonderful, and they're going to do amazing things, but can I tell you something? They need to do some amazing things. The more I tell a person how good they are without them proving it to themselves, the more that those words just have lack meaning and they lack influence. And so I think one of the things I love about the leader's greatest return is that I really talk about developing a leadership culture in that book. And a leadership culture is all about behavior. It's kind of like vision is what you see for your future, but culture is who you are now. And my behavior today has determined what I would come tomorrow.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That is just absolutely true. And so in the area, as we talked about confidence for a moment, I think this is a big miss for a lot of people. I may have a natural bent to being confident, so therefore that gives me a little bit of an edge in the confidence gain. But here's what I know. If I don't back up that confidence that I feel success.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I think it's in the consistency of doing the right things over a period of time that one day you wake up and you just say, wow, look what's happening in my life. I know that I could say that to be true in my life at 72, I look back and I honestly, Shane, I could hardly believe these things have happened to me. But as I look back and reflect on what has happened to me, I do know this. They didn't happen all at once. They didn't happen with a secret formula. They were a combination of day in, day out, making today count and learning and staying the course. And all of a sudden, there's a compounding on the back end that's pretty amazing, but it only happens on the back end because you are consistent on the front end.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So when it comes to leadership and all of these, what I would call success issues in a life, it's kind of like what are you doing with your life now to make it better or to improve it? And I think that we all to improve our life have to be committed to a process. There's no quick way to get to the top. And it's an uphill, steady climb. Leaders are not made in a day. They're made daily. And I think that I help people buy into that process of every day. I'm getting better. But it's not like it's one event or it's one moment that all of a sudden, quote, made me. I think that it's in the consistency, you know, consistency compounds.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think first of all I believe that there are people that some people in comparison to others have a natural leaning towards being a confident person I think that there are some people that just Okay, there's a naturalness about that to them that they're not working as hard on it as someone else that you'd have to say is maybe a born inward trait. So, I think that there's a part of that in a person's life, whether it's in leadership or confidence or whatever. Even if it's a natural inclination or a leaning that a person has to being self-confident. Have to develop it no matter what kind of natural gifts and talents you and I have there still is a responsibility of ours to maximize those talents and learn and grow and prove and order our life so that we're going to continue to grow.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Unreachable. It needs to be something where a person, when I write a book, I want a person to pick up that book and basically say, I can do this. And the moment that they have confidence that they can begin to do this, now I become their best friend. And again, the books that I write I wanted to be simple and practical and applicable so everybody that can look at them can not only understand them, but they can do something with them. And I think that's a lot of the joy of writing is that what I write about is within the choice realm of an individual. And they can choose if they want to improve themselves. And those who do choose that, they're my kind of people. They're the ones I keep writing for.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Shane, the most exciting thing about what I do in writing books is that what I write about If a person truly makes a choice to improve themselves in that area, they'll have improvement. I only want to write about things that people can grow and develop in. I mean, there's no need for me to write something that's unachievable.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Be in those four areas because I think that's successful people do those things really well. And I do think that sets them apart many times from people that are not successful.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So that was clear back in when my first book came out in 1979 for 40 years. My books have that continual theme of relationships, equipping attitude, and leadership. And what I discovered was that when I did that, you know, what is it, you know, 34 million books later, I was every time writing not only in a felt need of a person, but in something that was going to make a difference for that person, that if they truly could do these four things and develop in these four areas and improve these four areas, their life, their business, everything was going to be vastly improved. So I've stayed in those lanes with all of my books. And, you know, some lead maybe more towards leadership than anything else. Others lean more to relationships or attitude, but pretty much those books are going to continue.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's when my attitude becomes what I call the difference maker. So I said, okay, then I'm going to write books that will help people have an attitude that will overcome adversity and difficulty and challenges. So now I've got relationships. I've got equipping. I've got attitude. And then the fourth area I came to conclusion was that successful people influence others and know how to lead. And so I said, okay, I'm going to. I'm going to write leadership books. I want to teach people how to influence others and how to make their influence really count.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Have what I would call an attitude tenacity that allows them to get through and overcome adversity. I said, okay, then I need to help people do that. I need to write about the attitude, which the attitude isn't everything, but it's the main thing. It's the main thing. And, you know, attitude only shows up during difficult times. Attitude. Attitude gives you no advantage during good times because during good times everybody has a good attitude. I mean, when things are going my way, I mean, my attitude is fine. But it's when the adversity comes and the challenges come.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then the second thing I discovered about successful people is they had the ability to form teams and get people on the team and then to equip them and mobilize them and began to empower them to help for the cause. And so I said, okay, I'm going to write books not only about relationships, how to get along with people, I'm going to write books about equipping and how to train and develop people and how to build teams. And then the third area I came to the conclusion after much study was that successful people”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So about sixteen, eighteen months for that period of time I just studied success and observed successful people, did a lot of Q&A, and I just dived into this area of what does it take to be successful. I came up the conclusion that the successful people do four things really well, regardless of what their occupation is or career. Those four things, Shane, are relationships, highly successful people are just, are they good with people? People won't go along with you if they can't get along with you. So I said, okay, then I'm going to write on relationships. I'm going to help people learn how to connect with other people.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT