Degree 1 · Unit 4
Your plan: from the map to the climb
Knowledge that is never applied turns into false confidence, and false confidence is more dangerous than ignorance, because the ignorant at least ask while the falsely confident go ahead and decide. This is why every degree in this programme ends at a gate: one tangible output that you produce with your own hands before you are allowed to climb.
The rhythm I would recommend is a week to read each degree, then the time its gate takes — hours for the first three gates, a day or two for the fourth, and weeks for the fifth and sixth, because you work those with your team, not alone. About sixteen weeks for the whole ladder. Read ahead as fast as you like, but do not count a degree done before its gate; speed with nothing to show for it is not speed, it is entertainment.
Do this
- 15 min
1 — Think. Look at the weakest dimension you coloured in your matrix, and from the routes in "How to use this programme" pick the one that starts from it. Write down, by number, the first three units you will read.
- 15 min
2 — Apply it in your field. Name the scope you lead, where you will work the gates of degrees four, five and six: your team, department or project. Write its name, how many people are in it, and who holds authority over it. If you lead nothing at work yet, a volunteer or community initiative you lead is a scope of leadership too.
- 10 min
3 — For the gate. Fill in the contract in this degree's gate, then send the date to the person you named — today, not tomorrow.
Sixteen weeks: a week to read each degree, then the time its gate takes. This is your plan drawn on a single calendar.
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If you fall a week behind, move the whole schedule a week — never drop a gate. Late and delivered beats punctual and undelivered.