# Chapter 238

Strong reasons = strong action. - Masterminds

When you know your why, pretty much everything is possible. I would even go as far as to say the stronger your reasons the stronger your actions. As I was sitting in church yesterday listening the narrative that we tell ourselves, it was pretty weak. Elegant, but not strong enough to change our course of actions from gun-loving, science-hating, political extremism. When all we are basically called to do is love God and love our neighbor. We don’t get either accomplished, because our strong reasons come from our cultural and political narratives and not our religious narrative.

This is easy to discern if you turn our equation-of-the-day around and look at our strong actions in order to see which strong reasons are driving them. We are far more swayed by being “American” and our political party, than we are any bible or teaching about loving anyone. And of course if you don’t claim to be a highly religious person this sounds normal to you. But I am a highly religious person and most of the people I hang out with are supposedly highly religious people and yet they aren’t. This is very disappointing to me.

However, in the work space, in the non-profit space, in the leadership and development space, this equation has high congruency. Look for people who have strong feelings and stronger thoughts about the goals you are accomplishing and you will find people who act strongly to see them accomplished.