"In a race, sooner or later there's a moment that separates the winner" from all of the losers (Godin 2010,75). Sooner is the part we have the most control over. It can be won months or years earlier. In terms of what one does every day, the "win" can happen when someone is writing ideas, contacting others and making it a habit to collect material which can be used during the "race." Author Simon Sinek refers to it as the “infinite game.” Latif Nasser calls this the "World's Biggest Scavenger Hunt." The idea is that at the time you need the idea or strategy, you may not have time or resources to come up with one. Similarly, this is what Sonke Ahrens is doing with his "Zettelkasten." Finding worthy concepts along the way allows one to have an idea at the ready.That will mean as one goes through life the need to spend time thinking about different scenarios and determining strategies when the time comes to use them. It may be analyzing an audience you need to win over to your side.This is one area where Patriots thinking comes into play. If one does everything that everyone else is doing, they are playing by someone else's rules. To be a changemaker, you have to be ok with going against the grain and developing your own path and learning through your own ways of thinking because as Godin contends "If the rules are the only thing between me and becoming indispensable, I don't need the rules" (Godin 2010, 75). The "rules," to which Godin refers, are not natural law. They are the ones that everyone lives by because everyone around them does and seemingly did those in the past. This is a new way of thinking about the rules.
Godin, Seth. Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? Portfolio, 2010.
Nasser, Latif. “Latif Nasser.” Transom, Transom, 20 Nov. 2018, transom.org/2018/latif-nasser/.
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