It’s not just who you know or what you know. It’s both. We need the educational tools to learn what we don’t know and a supportive community of peers to help us navigate what we don’t even know we don’t know.

As Charlie Munger said,

“Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.”

Leveraging Community Resources

In school, getting help from others is considered “cheating.” In the school environment, all work products must be ours alone. We aren’t encouraged to enlist the help and capabilities of our peers.

But in business and life, collaboration is the name of the game. Getting help from others enables you to create success in your life and gives you a deep sense of meaning and belonging. Your network is your power.

Instead of spending time figuring out how to do something, it’s better to figure out who can help do it.

What would happen if we shift our mindset from “how” to “who?”

What would be possible for you if other brilliant peers expanded your capabilities and potential?

Examine your life. How many challenges are you trying to shoulder alone? That mindset can lead to mediocre results, frustration, and regret.

If you are doing everything yourself, you limit the resources you can direct toward achieving your goals. If your resources are limited, your potential, options, and future are limited too.

Instead of asking, “How can I accomplish this?” A better question is: “Who can help me achieve this?”

Your vision expands when you have capable peers who can help take your goals to places you couldn’t have imagined yourself.

The destination is not as important as your transformation along the way. The process and practice of cultivating new knowledge, skills, network, and mindset are what matters.

In Transformational Relationships, everybody gives more than they take. Growth requires you to be open to new ideas and a willingness to unlearn ideas that previously served you. The mindset that got you where you are won’t get you where you want to go.

With an abundance mindset and an openness to novelty and change, everything becomes an investment opportunity with the possibility of 10x, 100x, or more returns.

Commitment to Invest in yourself is a virtuous cycle. The more you invest and commit, the more gains and growth you experience. Psychologists call this the Escalation of Commitment: Every time you invest yourself in something, you become more committed to it. Investing in yourself pays the best dividends.

Someone once told me a definition of Hell: On your deathbed, the person you became meets the person you could have become. Are you investing in yourself and doing everything you can to avoid that confrontation being hellish?

These are exciting ideas to me that I am trying to create a productive community around.

MBA ASAP is spinning up a Community platform integrated with MBA resources. Check it out and join us.

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