Luke McMeeken-Ruscoe

Escaping The Box: Stop Creating Your Own Prison

Perspective is powerful., you are what you think you are.

You create the limits of what is possible by defining what box you exist in.

Sometimes that safety helps, but often it hurts your ability to see a new opportunity.

Hard numbers create powerful images which emotionally resonate with us more than stats.

Be careful how numbers are presented and what you are trying to say.

Or what someone else is trying to get you to think.

Your gut could be wrong, and its terrible at maths.

There is a difference in small vs large samples.

We trick ourselves that unconnected events “should:” happen because it feels like they should.

Tradition tells you what we have valued, not what is valuable.

Other peoples decisions shouldn’t be ignored, but they should be understood.

Something being old doesn’t make it good. Something being different doesn’t mean it’s bad, it’s the ability to discern value that is important.

What if we didn’t define people by what we think they can’t do?

Everything in this world was never done at some point. Someone had to be crazy enough to attempt it.

Don’t get trapped in the frameworks of outdated ideas.

In a time of constant motion, taking a moment to pause and think can be judged as indulgent.

Taking time to think should be a prerequisite to leadership, not a challenge to it.

Do the right thing is better than doing more things.

We see everyone as competition but in life we are running our own race.

If we trip and fall, we feel like everyone is running away from us.

Get up.

Falling isn’t failing, staying down is.

If you have to constantly watch your team, you have already failed as a leader.

You need to trust they know the direction they need to go.

While you keep clearing them a path to follow.

The trap is feeling like doing something is getting you somewhere.

Thoughtful beginnings create beneficial outcomes.

We want to start with curiosity, not certainty.

Ideas that have been around don’t mean they are right.

Updating your ideas given new evidence and information isn’t a sign that you were wrong the whole time.

It is a sign that courage to improve and change.