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Tim, can you give preferably who's watching this interview, can you give

a few more examples of habitude, maybe share some of your favorites?

>> Sure.

Well, you can imagine I do have some favors, and usually my favorites

are chosen from the ones I most need not, because I think they're just awesome but

one of my favorites out of the, by the way, there's a 108 images right now.

We'll continue to develop more.

There's eight course or eight books of these habitudes, but

one of my favorite stands rivers and floods.

Now think about of river and flood.

Rivers and floods are both bodies of water, but after that it's all contrast.

Floods are water going in every direction all at once, often murky and muddy,

often shallow, and often doing lots of damage.

Rivers on the other hand, are water flowing in the single direction,

because they have banks to them and even if it’s a wide river,

it's still flowing in one direction.

And if you think about it, if you use them right, rivers can be leverage to do a lot

of good, you can light up a city with the power that's generated from flowing river.

I always say to leaders, rivers and

floods always reminds me of the power of focus and clarity.

I believe at beginning of a season, a school year, a job, we're rivers.

We got a clear goal, here we go, but over time opportunities pop

up distractions arise, injuries, Facebook, things happen.

>> Yeah.

>> And pretty soon what was once flowing is now flooding.

We're five miles wider and one inch deep, five meters wide or one kilometer deep.

So we say the predisposition you probably have is to try to do everything.

I always said you can do anything, but you can't do everything and

rivers and floods reminds me I need to choose my river and flow not flood.

So that's one of my favorites another one though is chess and checkers.

This one we teach all around the world,

because most people know these two games even if they've never played them.

Chess and checkers are two board games played on the very same game board.

The difference is the pieces.

In the game of checkers, all your pieces look alike.

Same color, same shape, same size, they all move alike so

you treat them all alike.

In chess, if you have any hope of winning the game,

you have to know what each piece can do.

That a knight goes up two and over one, and a bishop goes sideways, and a rook,

and a pawn, and a king, and a queen.

Only in knowing the strength of each piece can you win.

Here's what I always say, the lesson I learnt from that is,

mediocre leaders play checkers with their people.

They treat them all alike, and they get average performance.

Great leaders learn to play chess in the relationships of their life, and

they connect with others at the uniqueness of their personality and

their strength and those people flourish.

because you saw them you knew I was a knight, you knew I was a queen,

you knew I was a bishop.

So again we condition naturally to play Checkers.

Treat everybody fair, treat everybody alike.

That's the worst advice I could give in.

Find out who they are and connect with them that way.

So that's another favorite.

One more real quick, you and I were talking about this off camera.

>> Yeah. >> Crack-pots and microwaves.

Now for listeners that familiar with the crock-pot,

it's the slow cooker, it's the one that my mom's used to use for

when I was growing up, she put the meat in, the potatoes and the carrots,

and it was a slow cooker that took hours to make that stew.

The microwave is the generation we live in today.

[LAUGH] We like to pop something in a microwave, shut it, and 30 seconds, or

60 seconds later, the food is done.

But is it really done?

I like to ask students, do you really like food coming out of a microwave?

You like the speed, but it always tastes better out of a crockpot than a microwave.

And I always say this, your career is probably going to move a little bit more

like a crockpot than a microwave.

It's a slow cook, but boy, does it taste better when it's done.

Boy, is it rich and good, if you've given the time, so in this day that we live in,

where we want to move and get promoted, and

become vice president when we're 25 years old, It's better to stay in, execute

what you're called to execute, and, along the way, just really, really get good.

And I believe we get moved up when it's recognized we've got the gifts,

and the experience that's necessary.

So, it's crockpots in a generation of microwaves.

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