How to Build a Great Support System

The Art of Accomplishment

Brett Kistler

Management, Mental Health, Personal Development, Education, Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 269 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

“Show me your friends, and I’ll show you your future,” is a common expression that suggests who you surround yourself with will determine who you become and how you operate. Evidence suggests that there’s some truth to this. In this episode of The Art of Accomplishment podcast, Brett and Joe explore the makings of effective support networks. Through the lens of BASE jumping, self-discovery work, business, and parenting, they discuss: - The importance of shared purpose - Accountability - The benefit of diversity - Practical steps to create your own support structures - The necessity of vulnerability and visibility Tune in for a stimulating conversation about how support systems are a vital part of the transformative power of community.

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0:00.0	What's scary about having a really good support system?
0:05.2	How does it help to watch somebody go through the transformation you want to go through
0:11.9	before you go through it?
0:13.3	How do you know you're ready to teach something in your support system?
0:17.1	What makes you think you could ever be ready to teach anything?
0:24.2	All right, welcome back to the art of accomplishment, everybody.
0:26.8	I am here with Joe Hudson.
0:28.1	I'm Brett Kistler.
0:29.3	And today we're going to talk about how to build a great support system.
0:49.1	In the world of extreme sports, people live and die by who they keep around them, by who they choose to have as their support system.
0:54.7	The way you said that is awesome because I was like, live and die. It was like, oh, no, he's actually talking about living and dying. Yeah, I mean, literally. Yeah. Yeah. The people who are with you when you're
0:59.5	about to do something extremely dangerous are the ones that you're looking to for assessing the
1:05.3	safety of what you're about to do, for assessing risks. They're the ones whose fears or ego drives are going to be ping ponging off of
1:13.9	yours and interacting with your psychology.
1:17.4	And so this is true for extreme sports, but I've also seen this in business and in relationships.
1:24.2	A marriage, having a support system is a very different experience than a marriage having no
1:31.0	support system or in isolation.
1:33.0	That's right.
1:33.7	Yeah.
1:34.6	So tell me what was your experience in extreme sports about creating a support system?
1:41.0	How did that go for you?
1:42.3	How did it start?
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