GETTING CAUGHT BY, “I GOT IT!”

Article 2 of the Tribe Conversation

If you read my first article, If I am so damn smart, how did I end up here, this is its cousin. Along with being stuck in I know what I know, and I know what I don’t know, there is also, “I got it!”. I submit that in the world of mastery, it is rare to “get it” and I am not even sure that is the goal. I believe we want to be “getting it” or in the practice of continuous inquiry and maturity.

I got it almost implies there is nothing more for me here. I have everything I need, and this inquiry is over and complete. This has not been the case in my experience and pursuit of mastery. So many things seem to have so many levels and layers of understanding and knowing. It is arrogant to think I already got it.

I have been working on the TribeUp framework for over 12 years and I have trained many people. I often will hear some say I got it, or I get it. I think to myself, you are a daisy if you do because I am still getting it. It is an exercise in having a growth mind versus a fixed mind.

Avoid the trap of thinking you get it and limiting yourself from what is to come. There is much more if you will inquire and then listen and observe intently. Avoid being lazy in listening, fixed in your thinking, and auto filling the blanks with what you already know you know.

People will talk to me about tribe, and they will fill in their own blanks with what they know they know, never really giving much thought to tribal consciousness at any time in their life. I have been deep in the inquiry for over a decade and likely have an insight or two that might be transformational, and they will miss it. Their cup is full as the expression goes with no room to add anything new because they think they “get it”.

Still with as much as I might think I know; I am a baby with this work and there is a long road of mastery ahead. Let’s open our hearts and minds to the potential of ever-improving human interaction through tribal consciousness.

To continue with the tribe conversation, go to Article 3.

Tribe Well,

Brett Labit