#85: Tim Arnold—How to Embrace Tension to Be a Stronger Leader

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4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Left or right.

Justice or mercy.

Traditional or innovative.

Logic or gut instinct.

We tend to be binary thinkers. We assume things have to be one way or the other.

But this is dangerous, according to Tim Arnold, today’s guest on the Building a StoryBrand podcast.

To be a better leader -- both at work and at home -- we need to embrace healthy tension. We need to learn to see life’s decisions not as “either/or” but as “both/and.”

When we do, we give ourselves a massive competitive advantage. We unlock a new level of leadership and creativity. Our businesses (and our lives) can breathe and be healthy.

If some area of your life or business has plateaued and you don’t know why, listen to this episode. It’s nuanced, it’s practical, and it may just be the “aha” moment you need to truly start thriving.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Building of Story Brand Podcast, where we believe if you confuse you you'll lose noise is the enemy and
0:13.8	creating a clear message is the best way to grow your business I'm your host
0:17.6	Donald Miller I'm joined by my co-host jJ petterson hi j j j j j j j j j j j j
0:22.1	j j today we're gonna interview Arnold. He's actually I know we love
0:25.5	Tim. I love Tim. Tim is our Toronto representative here at Story Brand. He's one of
0:30.0	our facilitators and he actually trains all of our T3 trainers. That is when
0:33.9	corporations send us people to train through the Story Bread framework go back to
0:38.6	their corporations and train all their people. Tim is the guy who does that and he
0:42.2	wrote a book. Yes. The book is called the
0:44.2	power of healthy tension and I thought when Tim sent me the book that it was going
0:48.7	to be about relational tension. Specifically I thought about you know marriage and
0:52.2	maybe Betsy and I could read this if there's ever any tension,
0:54.5	we would help us navigate that.
0:55.5	It's not what it's about.
0:56.5	It's actually about the problem of binary thinking, which this has been a kick for me maybe in the last few months and you know that
1:04.6	that what is frustrating to me especially in the political realm is the amount of
1:10.0	binary thinking we've got right now. You are either a liberal or a
1:13.0	conservative you either are for big government or no government you are good or
1:17.7	bad. There is no in between. A politician is either good or bad and when you meet
1:21.9	binary thinkers which most people are
1:24.1	yeah and we're gonna get into why they are I find myself just shutting up yeah
1:28.3	because I can't say well I really like these particular aspects of the Trump tax plan.
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