Architect of Wow Just Got WOWed
Jason Northington is the Architect of Wow. And he just got ‘wow-ed’.
We have written a few books together, worked out together, and, when necessary, prodded each other for new heights. To prod us both, Jason has thrown a sentence at me that, out of some boomerang effect of some sort, I have been throwing back at him.
“Play a bigger game.”
It’s shorthand for ‘You are thinking way too small. Expand your mind. Expand your self-concept. Expand your risks.’
So, this morning, Jason, received a phone call…from Simon Sinek’s office!
Simon Sinek has spoken at TED conferences with his philosophy of life and business regarding the Golden Circles. Check out his video here. He also has a successful consulting business and building his speaking business.
You can imagine that when Simon Sinek’s office called Jason he was floored.
How did Jason make that happen? Well, that’s what wow-ed him.
“I was surprised. This was one e-mail that I didn’t try to engineer. I just wrote Simon and spoke from my heart.”
Now, speaking to Mr. Sinek does not necessarily mean a person has won the lottery. It doesn’t mean that hunger has been resolved in Haiti, or even that you get out of that ticket for not wearing your seat belt.
However, it definitely means that something is happening inside Jason. It means that a respectable person sat up and took notice. That is what it means to spark.
“I feel that if I would have tried to come up with something that it would have been engineered and fake. I just wrote from my heart.”
It’s funny, once you play a bigger game, have a bigger self-concept, act not only on your knowledge, but also on your heart, you get wow-ed.
What’s YOUR bigger game?
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by Grant R. Nieddu
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photo by Aoife city womanchile
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