lost way wins
Christian Ray Flores here,
Happy belated Father’s Day! I’m writing this as the house is still asleep. Two of my three daughter and my niece came over last night to have a Father’s Day breakfast with me today.
I’ve done and still do a few cool things I’m proud of, but a house full of love is by far the greatest accomplishment of my life. My girls love spending time with Deb and I and we love having them around.
When people ask what the secret is, we know exactly what it is: weaving our lives together like a tapestry. When they were little - we somehow landed on this concept of their formation as human beings to be our primary responsibility. We rebelled against a conveyer belt way of seeing them in short bursts of “quality time” and opted on integrating our lives with theirs to the maximum degree possible. We just built a life around being around each other all the time. That’s it.
It’s a lost way and it wins every time. It feels impossible to most simply because of our short memory. Until just 200 years ago in all of human existence - this was the way and it wins because human nature does not change quickly.
The same is true of professional development. Education as primarily a system of transfer of information has become irrelevant. Information is free and everywhere. What has always been and always will be the winning formula is following someone with real mastery - doing what they do, saying what they say, learning to think like they think.
This weeks Xponential Podcast drop is about this lost way making a comeback as illustrated by a crazy story of my first career success in entertainment being possible by my virtual apprenticeship from Michael Jackson and him amazing attending one of our events in person.
Beyond some sick dance moves by yours truly, you’ll see some cool footage of MJ and I - along with the framework of how the lost way of apprenticeship works - and wins.
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