The myth of the lone wolf is seductive. The story of the genius founder, the hero athlete, the single visionary who changes the world. But reality tells a different truth: no one builds greatness alone.
A person can run fast, but a team can run infinitely further. Yet most teams fail to keep people not because of lack of skill, but because they rush, judge too quickly, or never take the time to understand the individuals within them. A lot of the time this comes from fear, from several angles.
Step One: Know Yourself Before You Join a Team
Before you can fully contribute to a team, you must know yourself from the inside out. Your dominant genius - your natural flow of energy, creativity, and drive - is your greatest asset. If you suppress it or try to fit into a mold, you’ll never bring your best.
When each member satisfies their genius within the team, passion fuels performance. Without this inner clarity, you risk becoming dead weight to yourself and to others.
Acceptance: The Highest Form of Awareness
In any team, judgment is the enemy. The highest form of awareness/consciousness is acceptance - to hear another person’s perspective fully, without rushing to judge, observe for a while, communicate.
Too often, someone acts against another’s values, and on a bad day, emotions flare. One quick judgment, one rash word, and an entire relationship fractures beyond repair. All because patience was absent.
Patience is leverage. With it, time reveals who belongs and who doesn’t. Without it, you destroy what could have been.
The Power of Synergy
Here’s the mistake most make: they think the best player makes the best team. False. The best team is built on synergy.
The four geniuses (mental model from "The Millionaire Masterplan" book, i mention this to describe what it could look like, these four geniuses does not exactly represent Universal Law) - Dynamo, Blaze, Steel, and Tempo - each carry gifts and its opposite weaknesses. Dynamo sees vision but lacks grounding. Steel builds systems but lacks connection. Blaze ignites people but loses detail. Tempo senses timing but lacks speed.
Alone, each genius is incomplete. Together, they form a perfect circle. Balance the geniuses, and you build a team with no blind spots.
Leadership That Multiplies Leaders
Teams collapse when leadership is about ego. True leadership multiplies leaders. It develops people instead of extracting from them. It doesn’t drive with fear, because fear decays life. Instead, it identifies what drives each person - their inner engine - and aligns it with the mission.
Fear-based teams may sprint, but they burn out. Life-based teams expand infinitely.
Communication: The Glue of Collective Consciousness
Without communication, everything falls apart. Assumptions masquerade as truth, emotions distort reality, and the collective dissolves. Communication is the glue that turns a group of individuals into a collective consciousness.
When you know each member deeply - their strengths, drives, and values - information spreads with efficiency. Why? Because it travels through trust. And trust is the most efficient currency a team can hold. Trust is the very denominator that allows for consciousness/information to travel through a human (without trust there is a wall that the consciousness bounces into, and no information is received), aka being receptive of information and constructive feedback etc.
In order to sell any type of information and for others to actually believe it, trust is required. Always.
Building the Right Team Takes Time
The best team is not built overnight. You cannot rush synergy, and you cannot shortcut trust. The best players for your mission are often already in your network. The question is not only who do I know?, but how deeply do I know them?
You can draw similarities between vertical marketing (how deeply do I know them?, Zoom in), and horizontal marketing (who do I know?, Zoom out).
Call them. Chat with them. Keep them around. Be human. Observe them. Learn who they are beyond the mask. The right people reveal themselves slowly, through patience and presence. And the best people will usually be the slowest to reveal.
The Qualities of the Right Players
The ones you want around you are rare:
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They know themselves deeply.
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They are wise, kind, and disciplined.
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They hunger endlessly for learning.
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They never quit, because quitting is intolerable to them, simply because the know why.
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They understand that life is about expansion, not extraction.
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They want to build something larger than themselves, which means that money is not their drive - a living machine that increases life for everyone it touches.
These are the people worth waiting for. These are the people you build with.
The Ultimate Distinction
The question is simple: Do you want a team of quantity, or a team of quality?
Quantity moves quickly, burns bright, and dies. Quality moves with flow, sustains momentum, and compounds into infinity.
Take time to put together the right team. Never rush. Because when you align the right people, in the right roles, with the right synergy - you don’t just create results. You create alchemy.
My ultimate preference
Explained with a touch of philosophy (philosophy = a way of explaining what one has experienced. Look this up if you wanna know more, some will understand, but im looking for the ones who do):
For the love of God. If you find a person with this rare trait, a person that can see the tissues and the molecular structure of existence itself in their mind, and thus understand to the core why working together is the key to getting far in life, do not let that person go. I always say this, and it applies even here:
There is few things that makes people do things, i'll explain one of them here. When a human being learns something, it makes them want to do the thing, because the very thing learnt cannot be unlearnt and all that life wants is to expand and grow bigger, its in the very nature that this happens, it's why we download and install new information, which then becomes actions, which then becomes memories, which then becomes desires, and desire leads to action again, now it's installed properly, new habits implemented. If the person in question believes and only believes in truth, they will never let that go and it is practically impossible for them to quit. Don't let a person like that slip through your fingers.
This would be my ultimate pick for a team member.
But we have time, don't we. So no rush. A good team can never be rushed.
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