Be Your Best in 2026: The Most Important Lessons from The Knowledge Project (2025)

Welcome to the final episode of 2025. I pulled together some of my favorite moments from the year. These conversations help me think better, work smarter, and live with more intention. It's time to listen and learn. Toughness, kindness, and clarity. All three. But don't forget the toughness. 'Cause you don't want yes people around you. You want people who say when we push the boundaries of our thinking a i make me get to the answer perhaps more quickly.

But you need someone with experience to know which of those references matter to the business. I am genuinely concerned that. because of different societal factors, because of people who maybe lost out on some social skills during the pandemic. There is not that rejection resilience that many of us need in life. You mentioned that we can engineer trust. How do we do that? One is repeated exposure. Second is establish a set of shared values. Everything is here to teach me and help me, it's all working for my good. So we're gonna go look for those moments when you're most uncomfortable and remind yourself, this is my teacher. From when a customer orders something.

through the distribution center, how it's gonna be picked, packed, packaged and shipped. And when you look at that from a flow perspective, you start thinking about new solutions. getting really, really comfortable with being uncomfortable. is magic. And I wasn't always good at that.

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