A few days after we finished the Sinek piece, I saw a video and took away some more insights related to Sinek’s Coffee Cups:
Watch this short video:
If you don’t watch this entire minute of video, don’t bother continuing.
There’s so much to unpack in this… Let’s jump in.
Logic is a Level 50 guy. He just ‘gets’ this New Wave mindset. He’s willing to challenge the norms, play the infinite game, push boundaries and has a DGAF attitude when it comes to irrational choices. He’s a ‘feel’ guy and I’ll explain why I say that.
Level 50 People Have Intuitive Powers
To the Level 50 HC that spots a New Wave Coach and pulls them up, or in our example, when Logic pulls this kid on stage, it’s not because he ‘thinks’ there is talent and ability inside the ‘kid’, the Level 50 coach ‘knows’ it’s in there.
The mind ‘thinks’ but the heart ‘feels and knows’.
And for as much as the Old Guard talks about ‘playing with heart’, they sure don’t take their own advice… Here’s what that would look like.
While Logic was performing the first few songs in the set, like a good hockey player, he is scanning the crowd. At many shows he likes to pull a young kid up on stage with him to create a moment.
He’s scanning and taking in nearly imperceptible cues, and when he notices a kid that has some swag, is belting out all of his lyrics, it gives him a ‘feeling’.
They connect on an energetic level. You resonate. You vibe. You might even see yourself in the ‘kid’.
Quick detour from this video to explain it using my other 2 favorite music artists.
Webby = Level 50 Coach
Quick refresher, Webby once pulled up Ekoh:
The question is why did Webby pull up Ekoh?
In a world where hundreds of aspiring artists are asking him, ‘will you listen to my mixtape bro?” Every single day… What was it that made Chris pull Ekoh out of the metaphorical concert crowd?
Yes, part of it was ‘talent’ or ‘competence’. Webby isn’t going to bat for someone that sucks.
But there are a lot of talented artists out there. So it isn’t solely a talent-based decision. And back to the first section with Logic, I don’t think it’s a ‘decision’ at all.
It’s a feeling. And a knowing.
What stood out to Webby was that Ekoh is an ‘unapologetically himself’ person. He’s authentic as they come. And Chris not only respected that, but saw himself in that. They aligned and resonated on real virtues like courage and full transparency. What you see is what you get with both of them.
My coaching mentor and owner of the junior team where I was ‘pulled on stage’ knew. It wasn’t a resume, it was a feeling and a knowing too:
I didn’t get a junior hockey, head coaching job at 26 years old because I was the best person for the job at the time, I got it because someone else believed in me.
Intuition tells the Level 50 people in charge of hiring ‘great people’ that there is competence without ‘rational evidence.’
Knowing without seeing.
Level 50 coaches aren’t bound to strictly being rational.
The heart guides the choice.
Now let’s pull a bonus lesson out of the Logic video.
Bonus Lesson from a Level 50 Guy
What do you notice from :24 to :44? Watch that segment right here:
Watch it a few times if you need it.
What does Logic do?
He started next to him on stage. His plan was to be right by his side to ‘guide’ or jump in and ‘help out.’
But a really beautiful thing happened and this is a trait of the Level 50 coaches too…
When he saw JRB had the stage presence of a real artist, Logic realized he didn’t need his hand held. So instead of taking some of the spotlight and standing next to him like he originally planned, he called an audible live and got the fuck out of the young gun’s way.
He knew at that moment he stepped back, he had identified a high-velocity person. He knew he was about to hire this kid.
The Old Guard and others who started the game at Level 20 and have not moved from that spot… are scared of competence because they are insecure:
The Level 50 people know that talent is all around them, and they’ll look and have the courage to act on the high-velocity people that most take a pass on…
Remember this quote and add to it to gain an edge:
“Most people won’t support you until it’s popular to support you.”
The best people, the Level 50 people… Don’t wait.
The best find you before the rest know you.
Mikhail and I discuss this further in episode 2, listen by clicking the photo: