Your "I Get It" Crew
To call in your “I get it” crew, share what's rare.
We need all kinds of relationships across our webs (Success Circle’s framework for networks). Those on the periphery of our web, known as “lose ties,” are proven to be most useful for career advancement. “Network churn,” a regular flow of new and old relationships, is a marker of a robust career network.
And, those we connect with on a deeper level can become partners and supporters in achieving our most audacious career and life goals. Those closest to you should see what’s rare in you. In other words, they should “get you."
Calling In Your “I Get It” Crew
Your current “I get it” crew can be one person or 10. It can be someone you get to work with every day or a moment on a bench with an old woman (and really, how cinematic would that be?). To call in and cherish your “I get it” crew, share rare parts of yourself. Let’s investigate.
Who do you call when you need someone who “gets it"?
Just after I almost died a on balcony in the snow two years ago (full story for another time), I left a voicenote for my friend Melanie. She saved it, and I’m so glad she did. Melanie and I started doing this work together over 10 years ago after my mom saw her storytelling show and recognized something rare. After trainings we’d debrief in hotel hot tubs, discovering pings of “getting it.” We laugh-cried at all we’d survived—that morning, childhood. She’s my first and most loyal reader because she gets it. This helps on days when my boyfriend (and most reliable editor) just doesn’t.
What does your “I get it” crew “get” in you?
For me, for one, it's that life’s greatest obstacles are funny. I survived the balcony in the snow two years ago (I promise this story another time), and I immediately wanted to tell it as a funny story to my friend. How weird. How perfect that Mel got it. My ability to find light in darkness is a rare part of me. By sharing it, I call in my “I get it” crew.
Is there someone you both “get” and admire?
It could be a podcast host, author, or leader in your industry. You “get them” because they’re making something rare in themselves visible. This is a wildly brave call to be "gotten." Consider how you might, in some small way, let them know you "get them." Who knows? They may one day become a cherished part of your "I get it" crew.
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