Mastermind groups can change your life when designed the right way by combining like and unlike minds.
You need elements that are different because if you didn’t need different experiences, viewpoints, and ideas, you would already have what you want. Your mastermind group might not have all six. The more you have, the more likely you are to succeed.
Let’s look at each of them.
1) Shared Experiences: Having a shared experience from your past makes it more likely you’ll have the glue that will hold things together in the future. As you grow stronger as a mastermind group, so will your creations. Shared experiences can include past career experience, volunteer experience, life experiences ranging from raising a family to starting a business, and so on.
2) Shared Passion: Passion is what keeps you going on the rough days and what you celebrate on the exceptional days. This is important because passion is the fuel that will drive your project forward and attract people with similar objectives.
3) Shared Purpose: Purpose is why you get up in the morning. It’s your compass, your guiding beacon. Sharing purpose builds trust faster and fuses your connections because you’re on a similar journey.
4) Different Experiences: Our experiences shape our lives and the lives of people in our relationships. Someone with different experiences than you can bring fresh ideas to the table. It can be better to learn faster from other people’s mistakes than to make more of your own. It’s also helpful to learn from other people’s successes than to only build on your own.
5) Different Viewpoints: Different experiences lead to different viewpoints. Different viewpoints combine for greater ideas and allow you to look at things differently. Different viewpoints are needed so you can “get out of your own head” while coming up with new ideas to move you forward.
6) Different Ideas: Different ideas are crucial to Idea Climbing. When combined with existing ideas and put into action,
different ideas create new results that you would never get by ideating alone. Sometimes different ideas will compliment yours, but at other times they will conflict with yours; they create learning experiences.
I hope this gives you a few ideas to fuel your future mastermind groups!
This is an excerpt from my book “Idea Climbing: How to Create a Support System for Your Next Big Idea”.
You can get my book here: “Idea Climbing: How to Create a Support System for Your Next Big Idea”
