Hi, I'm Kevin Eikenberry and I'm here to help you reach your potential as a leader and a human being welcome to Remarkable TV.
Today we're talking about leadership
and a fountain pen. Yeah, a fountain pen. Are you ready? Let's get started.
Well, our series continues of people issuing the challenges to take
Items and connect them to leadership and create lessons and therefore videos of them.
And so today we have Amanda Bondy to thank for the challenge of the fountain pen and for that
We'll send her a journal. So I went through a phase several years ago of being all into writing with a fountain pen
I thought they looked cool in my pocket. I kind of liked writing with them. And so I went through a phase
I'm not really using them now in fact, there's no ink in this one at this moment
But it does give me proof as a prop. So let's talk about what we can learn from
fountain pens as
Leaders. Okay, and I have five lessons for you today. The first lesson is leaders need to write
Yes, a fountain pen is for writing clearly and leaders need to write
We need to write as a way of communicating now. We might not use a fountain pen
We may type or whatever, but we need to communicate in written word more than ever as leaders
And we also need to write to clarify our own thoughts
because thoughts are fuzzy words bring clarity and as we start to write things down we clarify them for ourselves and for
others leaders need to write
Second leaders need to slow down
most leaders need to slow down some need a little more sense of urgency, but most leaders are
Probably running a little quicker than they need to sometimes and here's what I know about a fountain pen
You can't write as fast with this as with most any other kind of writing
instrument, you have to slow down a little bit to in order to make the fountain pen right in order for the ink just to
Flow and all those things kind of slow down fountain pen writing is slower than writing with any other instrument and as leaders
Sometimes we need to slow down
to
number three leaders need to adjust
Not every situation is the same for us as leaders
We need to do things a little different from one situation to the next and here's the thing
We have to adjust the way we hold and the way we grip and the way be right with the fountain pen
We need to do that to change our approach and to change how much pressure we use because that changes the result that we get
See if we adjust our approach and perhaps an what's pressure we use as a leader. It'll change our results
Hopefully we use the right approach to get the best
results
Number four leaders need to consider history now
I know this isn't about the pen exactly, but I know that this pen is sort of a modern-day fountain pen with the
Ink right inside here like this. It's empty. Like I said, but you know in fountain pens historically
were
Used and you dipped them in the ink, which was made it even slower
but the other thing is if you
Really understand how fountain pens work and you begin to appreciate the history of the fountain pen
You have a new perspective on the tool and for us as leaders
we need to consider history whether that history is a couple hundred years or
A couple of weeks to think back on what we've learned from what's happened so that we can use that for the next time
Leaders must consider history and lastly leaders need to try new things
No, I when I got into my little fountain pen
Era my little phase. Right? Some people would go through a Blueface
I went through a fountain pen phase when I went through that phase
It was like a brand new thing to me
because I'd never used a fountain pen and then I had to learn how to use it and I think the lesson for us as
Leaders is to remember that the old can be new again. And so along with the considering history if we're willing to try new things
even sometimes things that people have tried before but we haven't tried we might learn something we might create something even new and
Even better leaders need to try new things
if you've never tried a fountain pen, I
Encourage you to do that
Five lessons from a fountain pen. There you go, Amanda. You didn't think I could
But I did let me close with today's tweet fountain pens can leave a different mark depending on how they are used
Leaders can leave a different legacy
depending on the choices
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