American Checklist

Most of America’s biggest successes have been the result of teamwork turning ideas into practical reality. In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Mark Young give examples of this, and present the theory that the model for teamwork was built into the American way right from the beginning.   Comparing to the ideal: People who hate America are always comparing America to their ideal of America. They’re not looking at the country from the standpoint of where it was 50 or 100 years ago. A fundamental emotion: The fundamental emotion of all haters of America is pessimism. Built on teamwork: When you look at how the country was built, it was individuals coming up with new ideas that all required teamwork for them to go from the idea stage to the practical reality stage. The teamwork model: There's only so much life, liberty, and happiness that you can develop for yourself before you have to cross over into cooperation and collaboration with other people. The teamwork model was built into it right in from the beginning. F