Karen is k-dev’s corporate wrangler. She is the glue that holds everything together. She is one of kman’s krazies. Wednesday, during practice 130, she watched the scene out of the movie Walk The Line where Sam Phillips challenges Johnny Cash out of belief. I’ve watched these scene so many times I could recite the narrative in my sleep. I’ve memorized it, or so I thought.
Corporate wrangler found the melody line around how belief brought life into the band. Johnny began, she noticed, by singing about life and it was dead; he sang about death and brought the team to life. He showed up singing a song about faith like a dead man. When challenged, he sang about jail, destruction, and death and somehow brought everyone to life. Corporate wrangler saw the guy on the right mouth “key of A.” I’ve watched this a thousand times and never noticed this nuance. I’ve never paid much attention to the irony of how dead they were singing about life and how alive they became singing about death.
Corporate wrangler has good eyes. Good eyes.
We watched this scene to practice the art of finding the melody line, a thousand nuances, and then a thousand more. We do this so we can become masters of our craft. You see, masters use all their senses to tune the team up and turn the team loose. Masters cannot simply be good at one or the other. Masters gotta master the and. I’ve got a lot to learn when it comes to nuances. I get way to happy finding the melody line. Yes, I’ve got some work to do.
Remember, you’ve got some work to do too. Are you singing your song or parroting anothers? Are you getting real with you so you can believe you? Until you believe you, my friend, how can anyone else catch your belief and play alongside? Thanks, Corporate wrangler and kman’s team of krazies for some good work in practice this week. The magic comes when you extrapolate your practice learnings to real life.
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BUILT TO LEAD 