Everything?
Today I hung out with two brilliant negotiators. What impresses me isn't their ability to negotiate; it's their choice not to.
Today is the final instalment of "The 365 Experiment," one of Leslie Foster's blogs. He wrote a script a day this entire year! A script a day!
On a film shoot in Tennessee I was up from 5am 'til 1am the next morning. As I crawled into bed for a 4-hour recharge so we could do it all over again, Leslie settled at his computer to write the day's script. Dude, seriously?
Why not just write it tomorrow? Why not take 2 weeks off while the movie is in production?
Because this was his "non-negotiable." Because he'd made a promise. To himself. Every day this year, he was going to turn in a script, a crafted slice of imagination, a soul-painting, a story worth telling.
NO...MATTER...WHAT.
Actually, I think I first heard the phrase "this is one of my non-negotiables" from Bjorn, another incredible human I encountered today. I'll tell you about him later...
Foster, I am impressed by your resolve, intrigued by your creativity, inspired by your integrity.
What are my non-negotiables?
What do I have to do today? Who do I have to be?
NO...MATTER...WHAT.
A single phrase to describe my friend Leslie Foster: Diplomatic Non-Negotiator
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