A presenter coins the term sharity (shared clarity), drawing on Greg McKeown to explain that accountability requires everyone to share the same goal, and prompts listeners to check alignment before enforcing accountability.
The host opens with friendly greetings, light banter about guests and lighting, and reassurances that viewers are valued and capable today.
The speaker playfully mentions making up words and explains that words are empty vessels until we give them meaning, preparing to introduce a new term.
Drawing on Greg McKeown's ideas, the presenter argues that accountability requires a prior shared understanding, naming this concept 'sharity' and urging listeners to ensure everyone understands common goals.
A brief prompt to check whether people truly share the same goal; if not, prioritize aligning on that purpose, otherwise proceed to hold people accountable.
The host closes the segment with a short farewell and an invitation to reconvene the next day.
Hey Cadre, how are we doing today? Mr. Jefferson is joining us for a moment. I got home last night. So he's still in I need to catch up with Papa mode. Right? Yeah, okay, there you go. How are we doing Cadre? I hope you're doing great. But if you're not, here's a reminder that is A-OK as well. You're still incredibly capable, incredibly worthy. And you're probably going to do some pretty miraculous things today. Wow, my light is really bright. There, that feels better. I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here.
I know the things I know. And I care about you. And I love making up words. I've made-up words like lessish and enoughness and shrug fuck it. All those words are empty vessels until they have meaning, right? Words are collections of letters and sounds and consonants and all those things. But then when we place a meaning in them, they mean something. And I was on the plane yesterday and I thought about the word charity. Charity, S-H-A-R-I-T-Y, quite often. So I spent the last three days and I've spent the last two years teaching and presenting on some research around the idea of accountability.
And a lot of times we go, oh, we have an accountability problem. Nobody wants to be accountable anymore. That's a whole other conversation. But one of my great favorite authors, Greg McKeon, who's the essentialism guy, another made-up word. Thanks, Greg. had this short writing about how a lot of people think accountability is a problem. In reality, a lot of times it's not accountability, but it's one step earlier, and that's arriving at a shared understanding on what we're attempting to do. So you can't be accountable to something until we all know what that shared something is.
Shared clarity. Do we have clarity on the thing? Not do I, but do we. That's my invitation for you today. As you're working through family stuff or work stuff or colleague stuff or neighborhood stuff or civic stuff or world stuff, you go, gosh, people aren't committing to this thing. And I would ask you the question. It's like, maybe that's the wrong question at this point. Does everybody understand what we're attempting to do together? And if everybody does, then we can start talking about accountability.
But today I invite you to think about the charity of the moment. The SHARITY, the shared clarity. Do you got it? Bet a nickel, maybe you haven't thought about it. Maybe you do. If you do, yeah, then let's help people be accountable. If you don't, let's get on the same page first. Talk to you tomorrow.
