One Log Won't Build a Mastermind. Neither Will You.....

Alf Marcussen

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7d • Questions

Here's a question worth sitting with before you do anything else.

Why do you actually want to build a mastermind group?

Is it for the income?

Is it to surround yourself with smarter people?

Is it to finally stop feeling like you're figuring everything out alone in a room at midnight?

....Or is it something you can't quite put into words yet but you feel it every time you're in a great conversation with someone who just gets it?

I'll tell you where my answer came from:

Growing up playing team sports, soccer, handball, I learned something that never left me.

The team makes you better.

Not because everyone is equal, but because the combination of different people, different skills, different energy, creates something none of them could access on their own.

Even dog training, which sounds like a solo sport, is a team of two.

You and your dog.

Still a team!

Napoleon Hill figured this out almost a hundred years ago.

He called it the mastermind.

He studied Andrew Carnegie, one of the wealthiest men who ever lived, and asked him what his single greatest secret was.

Carnegie didn't say hard work.

He didn't say capital. He said it was his group of minds working in harmony toward a single purpose.

Hill wrote it down, studied it, and put it in Think and Grow Rich.

The principle hasn't changed because human nature hasn't changed.

Henry Ford had it.

Steve Jobs had it with Woz.

Every person you admire who built something real had someone beside them, or a group around them, who made the whole thing possible.

But here's the thing nobody really explains when you decide you want to start one!

DON'T DO IT ALONE!!!!!

And I don't mean that in a vague, inspirational way.

I mean it literally, physically, practically.

At home we heat our entire house with a wood-burning oven.

I can tell you from personal experience, lighting one single log is a frustrating, exhausting fight.

It barely catches.

You work twice as hard for half the result.

But you put a second log criss-cross on top of the first one, create that little vacuum between them, and the fire comes to life on its own.

Something happens in that space between two logs that one log alone simply cannot produce.

The heat, the oxygen, the reaction between them, that's where the real energy lives.

That's what the right partnership does inside a mastermind. I

t creates a pull that neither person could generate alone.

One person brings the vision, the other brings the structure.

One person challenges the room, the other holds it together.

The energy in that gap between them is what the whole group feeds from.

Hill called it a "third mind." Meaning when two people come together in full commitment toward a common goal, a third intelligence emerges that belongs to neither of them separately.

That's not mystical.

That's just what happens when two logs are placed right.

So before you think about how many members you want, what you'll charge, or how you'll structure your calls, answer the real question first.

Why are you doing this....?

And then find one person who gets that answer, who brings something you don't have, and who you'd genuinely want in the room when things get hard and the stakes get real.

That's where a mastermind actually starts. N

ot with a curriculum.

With two people who light each other up.

Let me know your thoughts below.

I want to hear why you want to build one.

Do you already know WHY you want to build a mastermind group?

Are you ready to take the first step right now?

Do you have someone in mind to build it with?

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