The Non-Negotiable Requirement for Growth

The Double Win

Michael Hyatt

Management, Intentionality, Selfdevelopment, Education, Teamleadership, Personaldevelopment, Productivity, Self-improvement, Business, Achievement, Influence, Selfleadership, Leadership

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Leadership is an exercise in vulnerability. The idea that leaders enter every situation full of confidence and assurance isn’t just false. It’s harmful. In reality, every good leader has one non-negotiable trait: they have developed a capacity for discomfort. Shaped by many stories and examples, this episode highlights what makes discomfort so difficult and so essential. Megan and Michael will help you feel less alone, coach you to disengage your defensiveness, and challenge you to lean in when it matters most. In this episode, you’ll discover— What makes taking risks so difficult Three areas you must embrace discomfort to succeed Why being tempered by failure is a good thing The vital frame-shift you need to make in thinking about critical feedback That feeling confidence is not a prerequisite for accomplishment To learn more about how to make space in hard conversations, explore the Lead To Win episode “How to Diffuse Conflict Before it Begins.” See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This episode of Lead to Win is brought to you by the Task Delegator, a new tool to help
0:05.5	you automate, delegate, and eliminate tasks so you can achieve the double win.
0:11.7	Download it for free at lead2.win slash Delegator.
0:16.3	Hi, I'm Michael Hyatt.
0:20.7	And I'm Megan Hyatt Miller.
0:22.3	And this is Lead to Win, our weekly podcast to help you win at work and succeed at life.
0:27.8	And today we're going to be talking about your growth and success will be determined by
0:32.4	your capacity for discomfort.
0:35.2	And by you, I mean all of us.
0:40.9	This is something that I feel like we don't talk about enough in leadership.
0:44.2	And consequently, a lot of leaders come in the leadership with misaligned expectations
0:49.4	to what it's really going to be like.
0:50.8	So let me give you a little story as an example.
0:53.6	So a few years ago, one of my direct reports came to me.
0:57.7	And she was having a problem with one of her direct reports.
1:00.1	She needed to do some performance coaching.
1:03.1	And she was fairly new to leadership.
1:04.4	And so she hadn't had a lot of these conversations yet.
1:08.0	And she was really nervous about it.
1:10.1	She was asking for advice.
1:11.9	She was making talking points, all that kind of stuff.
1:15.0	And when it came down to it, she was just commenting to me on the fact that basically
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