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Built for What's Next: Six Questions Worth Asking Yourself
We talk a lot about getting the elephants out of the room.
Sometimes the biggest elephant is the conversation we haven’t had with ourselves.
Are we building what we genuinely want, or simply getting better at doing what we’ve always done?
Curtis Scaplen shares six questions worth asking yourself before you figure out what’s next. Not what your business needs. Not what others expect. What you actually want.
This week in our Leadership In Focus Newsletter.
Perfect Is My Least Favourite Word
For the first 30 years of my life, perfection was the standard.
As a goaltender, giving up more than two goals felt like failure. As a student, A's or nothing. At university, the Dean's List became the expectation.
On the surface, that sounds like ambition.
In reality, it was perfectionism disguised as discipline.
The problem with perfection is that it teaches you to judge yourself almost entirely by outcomes. And when life eventually becomes bigger than what you can control — as it always does — you're not prepared.
I spent more time looking for explanations than lessons.
This week Curtis Scaplen writes about what shifted, why failure is the price of admission for a meaningful life, and what it actually means to adopt a next-play mentality.