Elevate Construction

Ep.157 - The Joys of Boot Camp Part 2


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What if the breakthrough you need starts with yelling "I don't know what I'm doing" as loud as you can? In this episode, Jason reveals the pivotal boot camp moment when field engineers stopped clinging to certainty and significance, admitted they didn't know what they were doing, and watched their communication skyrocket from five questions an hour to fifty. You'll learn why figuring things out presupposes you don't know what's going on, how admitting uncertainty increases your chances of survival like pilots in an emergency, and why dancing with your fears instead of fighting them enables you to turn nothing into something. This is about building a team that can figure it out because when you can do that, you can do anything in construction and in life.

What you'll learn in this episode:

  • Why the process of figuring things out presupposes you don't know what you're doing, and admitting that increases communication

  • The airplane emergency analogy: fast, short bursts of communication increase survival; silence decreases it

  • The breakthrough exercise: yelling "I don't know what I'm doing" and how it relieved the fear of looking stupid

  • Boot camp testimonials on dancing with fears, realizing what giving 100% really means, and rallying teams after rough starts

  • How field engineers learn a method of learning and a mindset of figuring things out that enables them to live a remarkable life

It's okay to not know what you're doing. Once you realize that, you can increase communication, ask questions, and fail forward at a faster pace.

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