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Top Think Tank Strategies for Matt and Bill's Success · Industrial Advisors

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  I would get up early and I run every morning and I think that like, that's
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  my only alone time the entire day.
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  Yeah.
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  Can imagine the entire day.
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  That's where I, I come up with, you know, whether it's planning
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  the day, week strategy, going into something, a pitch, or whatever it
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  may be from a work standpoint, or are we doing something different?
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  Welcome to our Industrial Advisors podcast.
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  You have Bill Condon and Matt McGregor.
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  We have a five minute Friday today, and today's topic is Think tank.
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  Think tank.
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  Yeah.
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  Different people come up with different ideas and, and generally
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  speaking like that happened to you in certain places, right?
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  So like for you, usually not at work.
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  It's usually not at work.
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  It's outside the office.
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  So for you, where is that?
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  So, you know, I do a lot of strategy thinking.
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  So my go-to place at my house is my sauna, so I work out and then
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  I'll go in the sauna, cold plunge.
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  I actually, yeah.
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  By the way, sauna doesn't count as a workout, so just if you know No,
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  after the Oh, got it, got it, got it.
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  Yeah.
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  So Sonic Cold Plunge, I do kind of clarity thinking before work or end of the day.
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  Certainly that would be the daily where I'm really, really thinking.
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  And so I typically don't play music podcasts in that.
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  And so that's my go-to.
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  The biggest place where I think for our team for strategy is
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  I'll sign up for conferences.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Right.
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  Whatever they are.
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  And usually I'll unplug on the plane and I'm just kind of writing white papers.
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  You know, the staff hates it when I travel.
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  I think too much.
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  And then going to conferences where I'm hearing dynamic speakers, presentations
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  and thinking of new and fresh ideas.
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  And usually I try to disconnect when I'm at conferences.
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  So work related, those are my big ones.
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  Yeah.
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  For me, I love running.
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  I would get up early and I run every morning, and I think that like that's
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  my only alone time the entire day.
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  Yeah.
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  I can imagine the entire day.
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  That's where I, I come up with.
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  You know, whether it's planning the day week strategy, going into
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  something, a pitch, or whatever it may be, from a work standpoint,
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  are we doing something different?
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  How can we do, it's always 90% of the time on that morning run where I'm thinking and
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  coming up with ideas from that standpoint.
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  Right.
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  Although you mentioned airplanes.
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  I actually like flying, you know, to or from some sort of work of,
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  you know, work thing coming off a conference and then like recapping
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  and going through it on the plane.
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  Yeah, for sure.
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  It certainly are.
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  It is, you know, those long flights, great time to just, you, you know,
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  you're not distracted by anything else other than you're, yeah.
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  People can't call you.
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  So for, for me, I, I would say yes, obviously the conferences and
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  everything, but morning runs and airplanes are, are good for me.
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  But you're not always alone in those runs.
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  You were attacked by an owl once I was attacked by an owl.
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  I met 90 other than getting attacked by mean, I attacked
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  by an owl like three times.
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  Actually.
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  Th I didn't know that.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean it's, that's insane.
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  Well, there we were right by a park and.
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  Wow.
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  Okay.
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  Proud to get me, man.
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  Um, so yeah, it's different.
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  Yeah.
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  But I do think going to conferences, challenging yourself to just
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  really get away and go like, look for new ideas is important.
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  Yeah.
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  That's my number one.
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  Certainly on vaca.
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  The final one for me would be you have vacations.
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  It usually takes a few days to wind down.
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  Yeah.
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  Before I can start like getting clarity of.
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  Okay, you, you come down quite a bit after a few days.
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  That's why longer vacations are good.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  And then you get clarity of thought both personally and as well as work.
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  So, yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So different.
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  That's my think tank.
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  Different for everyone.
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  But those are some things that work for us, for sure.
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  Happy Friday.
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  Happy Friday.