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Ep. 286 | What Insight Do You Have That Others Need to Hear? · The Family Teams Podcast

• 0:00
  We're not just a family ministry that just says, family needs to be better or whatever. We're trying to signal that there's something foundationally wrong with the way we even think about family.
• 0:14
  What's up, guys? Welcome to another 5-Minute Fatherhood. So I don't know if you guys know who Peter Thiel is. He is a famous tech venture capitalist and invested in Facebook. He's also a really professing Christian. He wrote an incredible book called Zero to One. And he has this question, and I wanted, Jeff, to get your take on this, because I have not been able to stop thinking about this question ever since I heard it.
• 0:38
  In every interview and almost every conversation Peter Thiel has with somebody, he asked them, tell me something that is true that almost nobody agrees with you on. And I love this question. And I think what Peter Thiel has discovered is just so brilliant about this question. And that is that everything wrong with the world exists.
• 0:59
  is because we've all collectively decided that something is true and we're all collectively wrong, right? That doesn't mean that the majority is always wrong. It just means that whatever's wrong with the church or the school system or the family or any systemic problem in the world can be rooted back to the fact that we all have collectively agreed on something that's actually not true. And so what happens is people have these weird, intuitive, instinctual, or sometimes biblical insights where they're like, oh, okay.
• 1:28
  what if this is true? And they are holding in their hands in that moment the key to disabusing all of us of this lie that we've been believing. And so there's probably nothing more fun to talk to somebody else about than what is that thing that you believe that nobody else agrees with? And I want to bring this up in this context, because in family teams, one thing is unique
• 1:58
  is really a truth that until we've been really trying to articulate it, nobody agreed with us on. We're not just a family ministry that just says family needs to be better or whatever. We're trying to signal that there's something foundationally wrong with the way we even think about family.
• 2:14
  that we think that the biblical family is a multi-generational team on mission. And it's important for you guys to understand, that's not something that we're reading elsewhere. Nobody agrees with us on that initially. People that have studied this, once we've articulated it, have begun to see that maybe this is one of those areas where we're just collectively heading in the wrong direction. Our compass is pointed out.
• 2:38
  inappropriately and is leading us down a bad path. And so I just want to encourage you. I don't know. The father's listening to this. I just wanted to say, I don't know what that is for you guys. If there's something that you're playing with, it doesn't mean that you're always right. It doesn't mean we're right. It just means that, man...
• 2:55
  that this is, this is the gold we have to be looking for. Like, what are those things that, that no one agrees with you on that you just really, really, really believe is true. And, you know, test those things and be humble if, if people are able to correct you and say, no, I don't think that's right. You know, but it's okay to like investigate these things because man, we, our future depends on, on people discovering, um,
• 3:18
  these, these lies, uh, that we are all agreeing to and these truths that are, that are really hidden. And I just love the fact that Teal is just sort of saying, let's just talk about that all the time, like a lot more. And let's be honest about how dependent we are on, uh, on finding out what, what those things are. But yeah, Jeff, what are your thoughts on that?
• 3:38
  Oh, man, that's such a fun question. You caught me off guard with that one, so I don't know if I have a good answer because I haven't thought about it enough. But no, yeah, I love it. I mean, yeah, immediately what pops to the top of my head is like, yeah, my thoughts on college and education are pretty rare and unpopular. We've done a little bit of a post on that. The family team stuff certainly is another one. The fact that Back to the Future is the best movie of all time is another one.
• 3:57
  Um, yeah, I can go on and on, but I, I do think, yeah, there's something about sharpening. I do think that's something we're losing in our culture is the ability to have really robust kind of stimulating, engaging dialogue and debate. Um, and not even debate. I don't even like that. We're just like really good conversation of like with questions. I'm like, Oh, what do you mean by that? Or why? And kind of prodding. And, um, I love those conversations and those are conversations I have with my friends and I think, uh, you know, finances, all that stuff that we love that I wish that the open world would have a little bit more. Um, cause I feel like it is so helpful and sharpening to everyone.
• 4:26
  Yeah. And if you guys want to have some of those places where I think Jeff and I are enjoying those conversations the most is in our integrated, our mastermind with other fathers who are business owners and entrepreneurs. And so, yeah, if you guys want to check that out, I think it's at familyteams.com slash integrated. And we get together twice.
• 4:45
  twice a year. And part of what we're doing in those two and a half days is just giving ourselves enough time to really investigate, you know, these ideas that we're having and to find out, you know, what are those things that are really going to help direct our families in a new way, really practically. So yeah, check that out if you're interested, if you're a business owner and a dad is looking for a tribe to join with and then tease out some of those ideas and hear those from others.