In this episode of the L3 Leadership podcast, our founder, Doug Smith, shares the lessons he’s learned from recording over 100 episodes over the L3 Leadership Podcast.
Episode #109: Lessons Learned from over 100 Episodes of the L3 Leadership Podcast
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Notes:
- Mentoring e-book: http://dougsmithlive.com/mentoring/
Lessons from Leaders
The following excerpt is from a graduation speech at Princeton in 1954 from Adlai Stevenson: “What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable. The laws, the aphorisms, the generalizations, the universal truths, the parables and the old saws—all of the observations about life which can be communicated handily in ready, verbal packages—are as well-known to a man at twenty who has been attentive as to a man at fifty. He has been told them all, he has read them all, and he has probably repeated them all before he graduates from college; but he has not lived them all. What he knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty boils down to something like this: The knowledge he has acquired with age is not the knowledge of formulas, or forms of words, but of people, places, actions—a knowledge not gained by words but by touch, sight, sound, victories, failures, sleeplessness, devotion, love—the human experiences and emotions of this earth and of oneself and other men; and perhaps, too, a little faith, and a little reverence for things you cannot see.”
- Courageous Leadership by Bill Hybels
- “You’re one relationship away from changing your destiny!” -Craig Groeschel
- Character is more caught than taught – Gerald Brooks
- The most important development is character development!
- Your earthly legacy doesn’t matter that much. -Greg Peaslee
- My legacy will be the 4 boys I raise and what they do. -John Henne
- “Life is not about what you do, it’s about what you set into motion!” -Jeff Leake
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