Speaking for Possibility, Not Probabilty | John Maxwell EP 576

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

John Maxwell argues that successful leaders must close the gap between themselves and followers, making content relatable through vulnerability rather than maintaining distance that breeds admiration yet prevents emulation. Recalling addresses that impacted communist leaders unsure of their futures and diverse UN diplomats, he focused on universal leadership qualities like caring for people and empowering them. Maxwell emphasizes approachability, using plain language, sinking to sit on the stage, and strategic pauses that relinquish control, allow insight whispering and prevent losing the audience to speed or complexity. Ultimately, he contends that humility and service prevent success from being isolating and help others feel your achievements lie within their reach as well.

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0:00.0	Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:07.0	When I speak for example I sit on a stool like I am right now with you. And I sit down and I look at the audience and I say,
0:18.6	my name is John and I'm your friend. On the count of three give me your name one, two, three.
0:24.0	Good to meet you. Now what am I doing? I'm visually saying to the whole audience I want to have a
0:30.4	conversation with you. This is not a professional speech, I'm not a professional speaker,
0:35.0	I'm just John and your friend.
0:37.0	And I'm just like, could we just talk?
0:38.7	Could we just talk?
0:40.0	What that does is that closes the gap because what happens with success Lewis
0:45.2	is success separates people. If you're successful after a while you're here and
0:50.9	they're here you can't connect being separated so communicators know I've got to
0:55.5	close that gap and so the question you got to ask yourself is do I want fans or do I want
1:00.3	friends if I want fans I want to keep the gap. That's how you get a
1:05.2	following you know I got fans. If I want friends I got to close that gap because I'm
1:10.5	already looking at me so my gosh he look what he's done, what he's accomplished.
1:15.2	I could never get there.
1:16.2	I could never get there.
1:17.2	And the worst thing that can happen to a communicator
1:20.3	is to communicate and have people say it's not achievable for me.
1:24.0	It's a terrible thing to speak above the people and have the people feel like
1:29.0	you're amazing speaker, but I could never be there. I could never do that. I was walking around the
1:35.2	stage and just talking to the people and teaching. And the stage had stairs on both sides,
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