Why ZWhat a Mastermind Group does
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. When you go it alone, it’s easy to lose to procrastination. But when two or three people you respect hold you accountable every week, your productivity soars — you don’t want to let them down, so you end up getting a lot of great things done.
The basic idea
A group of 3–4 people, meeting once a week for one hour, with at least 95% attendance. Look for people in a similar position to you — maybe a little ahead, maybe a little behind. What matters is that they’re motivated, positive, and ready to support each other and grow together. They can be your own friends, or members of a community.
- 15 min — each person spends 5 min sharing their biggest recent win
- 30 min — one person per week takes the “hot seat” to share the biggest challenge they’re facing and what they hope the group can help with
- 15 min — each person shares the one big goal they plan to finish before next week’s meeting
Possible additions later
- “Gold-medal mastermind”
- “Domain masterminds (language / programming / medicine)”
- “Systems-architecture mastermind (looks only at the data, doesn’t answer directly)”