1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,240 Do you ever feel completely overextended, whether in your personal life or in your professional 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:08,740 life in emergency services? 3 00:00:08,740 --> 00:00:13,240 You feel like maybe the departments that you work for, the organizations, the companies 4 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:16,020 that you work for and lead. 5 00:00:16,020 --> 00:00:22,200 Maybe chasing too many opportunities, things that are very, very undefined or just trying 6 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:23,920 for the next big thing. 7 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:28,120 If that sounds like something that might happen to you, and I know it certainly happens to 8 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:32,320 me quite often, more often than I'd like to admit, then you're going to want to stick 9 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:38,320 around for this firefighter craftsmanship podcast episode about how you can be a hedgehog 10 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:41,440 instead of being a fox. 11 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:44,160 Welcome to the firefighter craftsmanship podcast, where we're coaching you to deal 12 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:49,480 with the stressors of the job as a first responder, as well as how to thrive off duty. 13 00:00:49,480 --> 00:00:54,040 My name is Kevin Hasley, a human performance coach and a firefighter since 2005. 14 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:58,100 I've been able to coach over a thousand emergency responders on ways to be more resilient, better 15 00:00:58,100 --> 00:01:02,200 prepared for the job, and how to be happier and healthier at home. 16 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:08,240 Let's get to it with this episode about being a hedgehog and not a fox. 17 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:14,960 This comes from the amazing book, Good to Great, from Jim Collins. 18 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:19,000 This is an extension of some previous podcast episodes where we talked about some concepts 19 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,080 that are laid out in this great book, Good to Great, from Jim Collins. 20 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:28,200 This comes specifically from chapter five, which is titled The Hedgehog Concept, Simplicity 21 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:30,560 Within the Three Circles. 22 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:34,680 The more that I read this chapter, I've read this chapter a few times over, and the more 23 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:39,200 that I think about the simplicity of the three circles, which we'll talk about here in a 24 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:44,320 second, I think that the relevance to emergency services, especially emergency services in 25 00:01:44,320 --> 00:01:53,160 2024, and the demands that we are put upon us, whether it's people using emergency services, 26 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:59,840 911 systems specifically, as their primary healthcare provider, or their primary mental 27 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:08,440 healthcare provider, or their primary sociological provider, especially for you police officers 28 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:10,240 out there. 29 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:15,220 I think that the hedgehog concept is something that we as leaders in the future of whatever 30 00:02:15,220 --> 00:02:22,320 industry we're in need to really take a good, solid look at as we continue to ebb and flow 31 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:26,400 and figure out what is the next phase, what is the next iteration of emergency services 32 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:28,880 actually look like. 33 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:33,960 The fact of the matter is, the abuse of the 911 system is rampant, and it's happening in 34 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:35,680 every single community out there. 35 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:40,040 I would even venture to guess that it's happening in the volunteer systems, which is really 36 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:48,800 putting a strain on volunteer organizations and really tasking those communities no different 37 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:54,960 than the larger city systems where we're seeing an egregious amount of 911 calls for things 38 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:59,360 that aren't 911 related. 39 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:02,280 Now that doesn't mean that we're going to go out there and when we have a 911 call, 40 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:07,080 we ran a pretty good one the other night that was just complete nonsense, but we need to 41 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:10,360 make sure that we still have a good attitude. 42 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:14,680 We have a great opportunity to serve these people and figure out maybe what the root 43 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:16,440 of their problem is. 44 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:21,920 Also educate them on what some other systems or services or things like that are available 45 00:03:21,920 --> 00:03:28,320 to them and provide them with good quality customer service regardless of where we are 46 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:35,840 within our rest wake cycles or within our shift work cycles. 47 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:40,280 So not always easy to do, very, very easy for me to sit here on the podcast airwaves 48 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:44,000 and be like, oh yeah, you should have a great attitude on every single 911 call that you 49 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:45,560 run. 50 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:50,760 But just like you heard me say before, awareness is foundational. 51 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:55,040 And so just be aware of what's that inner dialogue happening with you and how does that inner 52 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:58,440 dialogue transfer into customer service? 53 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:04,080 How does it transfer into the mentality and approach and attitudes of your crew, your 54 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:08,680 station, your shift battalion, etc. 55 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:13,960 So in good degree, chapter five, they talk about a fable of the hedgehog and the fox. 56 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:16,240 And really what it is is the fox is very cunning. 57 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:23,920 He's got lots of strategies out there to try to trick and seize prey or work a tactical 58 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:26,040 advantage of some sort. 59 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:29,760 And the hedgehog is a very, very simple creature. 60 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:35,680 And he does one thing very, very, very well, and that's play defense. 61 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:42,000 And so when the fox is hiding in the bushes and the hedgehog walks by, the fox jumps out 62 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:47,360 and the hedgehog in this fable says, oh, I thought we've kind of already gone over this. 63 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:55,040 And he balls up as little hedgehogs do with his little spikes and creates a impenetrable 64 00:04:55,040 --> 00:05:01,720 defense for the fox to overcome and the fox eventually gets bored without prey and has 65 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:04,840 to go find something else to do. 66 00:05:04,840 --> 00:05:11,080 And so the concept of the hedgehog is what can you do better than anybody else in the 67 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:17,920 world and really, really focus hard on that versus chasing what the next shiny new opportunity 68 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:19,200 is. 69 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:24,360 And so if we look at this from an emergency services perspective, it's sometimes very, 70 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:30,560 very hard for our organizations and our leadership to figure out what is the hedgehog concept 71 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:37,040 actually going to be for us as we work for city councils, boards, the communities that 72 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:41,840 maybe want us to do all these other shiny new things. 73 00:05:41,840 --> 00:05:44,360 But I'll speak about the fire service specifically. 74 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:50,840 If we look at the iterations of the fire service over the years here in the United States specifically, 75 00:05:50,840 --> 00:05:56,240 right, it went from just running fires to running EMS. 76 00:05:56,240 --> 00:06:02,320 And now we're kind of tasked with all different things with tech rescue, hazmat response, 77 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:10,040 being people's counselors, talk therapy, being EMS providers, transport, if you have a department, 78 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:15,800 you know, that runs an ambulance service, transport, extrication, and then somewhere 79 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:18,840 in there is fire response. 80 00:06:18,840 --> 00:06:23,360 And we are the only game in town that actually does fire suppression. 81 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:28,040 And so it's probably important for us if you work for a fire department to have a hedgehog 82 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:32,640 concept that has something to do with fire suppression. 83 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:37,680 And that includes both engine and truck companies, squad companies, heavy rescue companies, all 84 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:41,920 of those firefighters are involved in fire suppression. 85 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:46,120 And so maybe the hedgehog concept for fire service specifically would be something to 86 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:48,120 do with fire suppression. 87 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:54,080 And we can't necessarily control what the hedgehog concept is going to be or should be 88 00:06:54,080 --> 00:07:00,280 for our specific fire department or our municipality or your organization if you're not in the 89 00:07:00,280 --> 00:07:02,240 fire service. 90 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:08,960 But we can control is what is that hedgehog concept in a couple different arenas. 91 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:14,600 If we're talking professionally, what is the hedgehog concept specifically for us as emergency 92 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:19,600 responders or employees or leaders of an organization? 93 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:24,720 And how does that fold into maybe that hedgehog concept of our crew or our company or our 94 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:27,880 team of people that we work with. 95 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:33,400 So an example of a hedgehog concept and we've seen this this gets a lot of exposure and 96 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:35,560 justifiably so. 97 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:41,440 Airtime is different training companies out there basic skills training so we could easily 98 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:48,240 make an argument that irons and ladders has it for sure one of the top couple forceful 99 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:50,880 entry classes in the country. 100 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:56,280 And so irons and ladders really figured out their hedgehog concept initially was forceful 101 00:07:56,280 --> 00:08:02,200 basic forceful entry that was residential initially and then it expanded to commercial 102 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:05,720 forceful entry as well and just teaching the basics. 103 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:09,760 And so we see other companies other basic skill companies or tool manufacturers or things 104 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:13,000 like that that put out training content as well that where their hedgehog concept might 105 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:18,640 be through the lock a respectful forceful entry. 106 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:26,000 We see hedgehog concepts like nozzle forward where it's about engine to door and water 107 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,960 on the fire fire suppression overall. 108 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:33,600 And I'm sure in police and emergency medicine and all those there's different different 109 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:38,560 companies that we can very very clearly see those people that are kind of leaders in that 110 00:08:38,560 --> 00:08:40,760 space. 111 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:47,480 And so kind of take a look at that of hey what can I be the best at and how does that 112 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:53,020 fold into my overall goals and can I just kind of focus on being the best. 113 00:08:53,020 --> 00:08:59,760 And so you know some of the the detractors might say well if I only focus on forceful 114 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:04,860 entry then I'm not going to know how to stretch hose lines or put water on the fire. 115 00:09:04,860 --> 00:09:08,800 But the reality is if I get really really good at forceful entry and I spent a lot of 116 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:12,360 time basic skills training on forceful entry. 117 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:17,200 I'm probably also have a training mentality that I'm going to go out and I'm going to 118 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:21,800 stretch hose lines I'm going to work on water application I'm going to work on water mapping 119 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:23,520 I'm going to dive into the textbooks. 120 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:27,400 I'm for sure going to be looking at well how are buildings built. 121 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:32,240 How do people secure their buildings if I'm if I'm looking at forceful entry considerations 122 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:37,680 how do I read those from the exterior on and on and on and on and on. 123 00:09:37,680 --> 00:09:42,840 And so I could I could really focus my hedgehog concept on something like forceful entry 124 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:45,600 or us here at firefighter craftsmanship. 125 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:50,360 Our hedgehog concept is we are going to be the best in the world of treat teaching emergency 126 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:53,040 responders how to be pre-zillion. 127 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:58,680 So establishing resiliency before we need it as emergency responders. 128 00:09:58,680 --> 00:10:02,720 And the fact of the matter is this is human performance psychology based. 129 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:07,160 And so if you're a human yeah I might use some terms out there that are emergency services 130 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:09,680 based or fire department based. 131 00:10:09,680 --> 00:10:16,120 However, the concepts are going to work if you are a living and breathing human. 132 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:21,440 One of the ways that we're working towards being the best at training pre-zillions for 133 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:27,080 emergency responders specifically is through our pre-zillions for the emergency seen class. 134 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:31,040 And you can get all that information at firefightercraftsmanship.com. 135 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:36,840 Click on training and you're going to see that self-paced online virtual offering that 136 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:43,600 is one step in the iteration of firefighter craftsmanship's hedgehog concept. 137 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:48,680 So overall let's look at that hedgehog concept as Collins and team defined in chapter five 138 00:10:48,680 --> 00:10:50,280 of Good to Great. 139 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:53,920 And really it comes into three different circles. 140 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:58,040 And the three circles kind of all intersect like a Venn diagram. 141 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:02,760 And in the middle of that intersection that little teeny colored space in the middle 142 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:09,760 of these three circles that crosses across all three circles is what you can identify 143 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:11,760 as your hedgehog concept. 144 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:17,360 And you can really, really get after that and really ebb and flow and grow that thing. 145 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:22,560 And then from there from that hedgehog concept we can filter decisions through it's no different 146 00:11:22,560 --> 00:11:27,200 than our guiding principles when we have a tough decision coming up and we know who we 147 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:31,280 are we know what our why is we know what our guiding principles are. 148 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:35,600 And you can check out the guiding principles podcast from firefighter craftsmanship in 149 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:36,600 the show notes. 150 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:39,760 I will link to that episode in there. 151 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:44,120 But when I have those really, really solid guiding principles and I know who I am as 152 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:51,480 a person not as my occupation I can really filter a lot of those decisions through it. 153 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:57,160 And so this is another way to do that using a hedgehog concept if you are running a side 154 00:11:57,160 --> 00:12:01,520 business or you're trying to figure out how to create higher performing teams what is 155 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:04,720 that hedgehog concept that you're all working towards. 156 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:10,960 So the three circles are number one, what are you deeply passionate about? 157 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:19,360 The second one is what can what can you be the best in the world at. 158 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:23,160 And then the third one is what drives your economic engine. 159 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:26,600 And that one's always kind of weird for us at work for governmental agencies where we 160 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:30,760 don't necessarily control the budgets and things like that. 161 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:34,800 And for us it's not like we can just come up with a new line of revenue and emergency 162 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:39,920 services come up with a new product a new product offering that meets the market and 163 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:45,120 make more revenue that's just not how most of our organizations are funded. 164 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:51,760 As you know in a firefighter craftsmanship say an entrepreneurial venture there is certainly 165 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:58,160 opportunities to create products or to team up with other organizations affiliates things 166 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:04,440 like that and really chase something that's shiny and new but maybe doesn't overall benefit 167 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:10,520 the hedgehog concept of again for us at firefighter craftsmanship training emergency responders 168 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:13,040 to be pre-zillion. 169 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:18,960 And so how do how do these things intersect and so if we look back at like the forceful 170 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:24,480 entry organization example, they're deeply passionate about that and that might come 171 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:27,760 from pain a lot of times change comes from pain. 172 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:33,480 And so that might have been an emergency response issue that happened where we could not get 173 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:39,720 that door opened and maybe there were some catastrophic consequences to that. 174 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:42,080 So passion can come from a lot of different things. 175 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:44,360 It's just something that you're excited about. 176 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:49,040 Maybe it's something where pain has created, hey, this is something we have to solve. 177 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:54,680 So a problem identification and then what you can be the best in the world at. 178 00:13:54,680 --> 00:14:01,480 And so, you know, an example from like the sport coaching world would be if I'm talking 179 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:08,680 to a basketball coach and maybe they're not looking at, hey, we want to be the best in 180 00:14:08,680 --> 00:14:11,720 the world at free throw percentage. 181 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:16,160 Maybe they're drilling down even further and they decide, hey, we want to be the best in 182 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:19,400 the world at this specific thing with defense. 183 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:25,920 So maybe it's like tipped deflections on passes or something very, very specific to that. 184 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:32,480 But they know that if they put in a lot of work on tip deflections, you know, in practice, 185 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:38,960 they put in a lot of work on tip deflections in games that deflections of the basketball 186 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:43,320 can lead to turnovers, which lead to fast break opportunities, which lead to points 187 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:44,600 on the board. 188 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:47,360 It also leads to frustration of the other team. 189 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:50,960 It messes up what they're trying to do with their offensive schemes on and on and on and 190 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:51,960 on and on. 191 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:54,920 So we can get really, really hyper focused. 192 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:57,080 So think about that in your context. 193 00:14:57,080 --> 00:15:02,320 What is something that you can actually be the best in the world at? 194 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:06,040 And you don't necessarily have to go out and broadcast it to everybody, but what is something 195 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:08,960 that we legitimately can do better than anybody else? 196 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:11,480 Are you on a hazmat team? 197 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:18,600 Is there something within hazmat that your company, your crew, your shift, even your 198 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:25,640 fire department, that you can legitimately be the best in the world at? 199 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:30,200 And so when we look at that from these three circles, what are you deeply passionate about? 200 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:34,800 What you can be the best in the world at and what drives your economic engine? 201 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:40,520 So if we go out and we're a hazmat team and we want to be the best in the world at using 202 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:47,640 a four gas monitor, let's say, and identifying quickly what's the difference between monitor 203 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:52,680 drift versus there's actually a presence of something in the environment. 204 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:56,160 And so maybe that's something that you're passionate about. 205 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:58,120 We need people that are passionate about hazmat. 206 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:01,920 We need people that are passionate about four gas monitors. 207 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:07,600 And so there's an opportunity for those people that are into that sort of stuff that they 208 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:08,600 are passionate about. 209 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:09,760 So they want to research it. 210 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:11,280 They're going to kind of know the ins and the outs. 211 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:13,120 They know how all the sensors work. 212 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:16,520 They know how the bump tests work on and on and on. 213 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:18,600 And they can be the best in the world at that. 214 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:23,160 And now they can start to communicate those things, make it teachable, make them useful 215 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:27,800 for the line and start to broadcast that information out. 216 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:31,560 And so when they work very, very hard at that, even though they're not creating new revenue 217 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:39,680 streams per se for their fire department, they're going to create leadership economic 218 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:46,560 objectives where, hey, that company over there has been working really, really hard on teaching 219 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:54,120 us all how to be better on natural gas calls, leak calls, odor complaints, CO calls, detector 220 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:57,240 calls, all those sorts of things. 221 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:03,560 Now you are earning economic objectives in the leadership capital space that's going 222 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:07,880 to help you down the line as you try to get better monitors. 223 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:09,840 You try to educate more people. 224 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:16,080 You try to get more funding or for more hazmat texts or whatever on and on and on. 225 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:20,360 So don't necessarily think about what drives your economic engine is actually like a new 226 00:17:20,360 --> 00:17:26,520 line of product because in the emergency services world, that's not necessarily relevant. 227 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:31,840 Well we can certainly capitalize on things like creating leadership capital from those 228 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:37,840 up and sideways and down the chain of command when we do this sort of stuff. 229 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:41,400 And a lot of this kind of goes into all the concepts that we've been talking about a lot 230 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:46,560 lately and in the last podcast episode with Preston Lyons, he talked a lot about kind 231 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:48,560 of building some of that leadership capital. 232 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:53,600 He didn't really use those words specifically, but he talked about being patient. 233 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:56,280 He talked about trying to get other people involved. 234 00:17:56,280 --> 00:18:00,840 He talked about trying to get people up the chain of command involved, get them to training 235 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:02,760 classes, things like that. 236 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:08,360 So potentially a firefighter like Preston Lyons, maybe he's deeply passionate about 237 00:18:08,360 --> 00:18:13,920 organizational change in a very specific realm and maybe let's just say that's engine company 238 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:16,880 of fire suppression work. 239 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:23,600 And so now can Preston be the best in the world at figuring out ways for his department 240 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:30,840 specifically that he works for to how to accomplish those organizational change. 241 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:35,760 And so it doesn't have to be how, how does, you know, a big fire department, city Chicago, 242 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:38,440 something like that, how do I impact their organizational change? 243 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:41,960 No, I don't necessarily, if I don't work for Chicago, I don't necessarily need to be worried 244 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:44,120 about that at this point in the game. 245 00:18:44,120 --> 00:18:50,520 I'm trying to figure out how to create more use and Preston as an example, how to create 246 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:54,480 organizational change for the fire department that he does work for. 247 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:58,520 So can he be the best in the world at that for his specific situation? 248 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:00,800 And then what drives the economic engine? 249 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:06,100 Well, it is creating a like minded group of people that surround me. 250 00:19:06,100 --> 00:19:10,960 Some of those people have more power ability than others, more decision making ability than 251 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:14,120 others, etc, etc, etc. 252 00:19:14,120 --> 00:19:18,840 And so this hedgehog concept can be a very, very good way for us to stay focused for us 253 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:24,200 to stay patient and for us to actually get measurable results. 254 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:30,000 When we have measurable results, we're less frustrated, we're less burned out, and we're 255 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:33,760 happier and healthier at work. 256 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:38,080 How about in your personal world or at your home environment? 257 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:43,000 What is something that you can do that falls within the hedgehog concept in your personal 258 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:46,120 life or your personal environment? 259 00:19:46,120 --> 00:19:47,760 What are you deeply passionate about? 260 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:50,920 What can you be the best in the world at? 261 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:54,880 And what drives your economic engine? 262 00:19:54,880 --> 00:20:01,440 And so if we look at that from a personal relationship standpoint or as a parent or as a, you know, 263 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:06,240 an interpersonal relationship, or what about even just for yourself? 264 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:10,800 So there's a lot of talk about mental health and emergency services. 265 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:17,480 Can we have a hedgehog concept that we use just for ourselves to make ourselves better, 266 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:23,920 stronger, more resilient, happier, healthier, all of those sorts of things versus chasing 267 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:28,120 the next new fad, let's say we're chasing, we're trying to lose some weight, and we know 268 00:20:28,120 --> 00:20:31,200 that we need to clean up our nutrition. 269 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:36,560 So versus chasing the next new fad, can I use a hedgehog sort of concept of what are 270 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:38,000 you deeply passionate about? 271 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,040 What can you be the best in the world at? 272 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:45,720 And what drives your quote unquote economic engine in the space of nutrition? 273 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:48,760 It doesn't mean that I have to go out and go back to school and become a registered 274 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:50,440 dietitian. 275 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:56,640 It just means can I filter the decisions that I make in regards to nutrition and education 276 00:20:56,640 --> 00:21:01,600 and the people that I surround myself with and maybe the services that I pay for or the 277 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:07,960 type of food that I buy on and on and on through a hedgehog concept. 278 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:09,920 So marinate on that one a little bit. 279 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:11,560 Let me know what you think. 280 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:16,720 I've been thinking quite a bit about this hedgehog concept over the last couple months. 281 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:19,600 I would love to hear what you think on this. 282 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:24,520 Hopefully it's spurred some excitement in you and you can get out there and continue 283 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:33,840 to push hard, to grow, to be happy and healthy and strong both at work and at home. 284 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:37,120 So thanks for spending your valuable time with us here at the firefighter craftsmanship 285 00:21:37,120 --> 00:21:38,560 podcast. 286 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:44,200 We really appreciate all the support, continue to shout out with some questions, some topic 287 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:45,880 ideas, some guest ideas. 288 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:49,160 We've got some pretty fun things planned coming up. 289 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:54,880 We have very exciting times here in the firefighter craftsmanship world specifically, which we'll 290 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:59,720 get into more in the next couple months specifically. 291 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:03,760 So as always, please share, rate, review this show. 292 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:07,040 We 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