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Wisdom Insurance — the NBA’s Modern Elder
Love this from Chip Conley (past guest on WhatComeNextLive here) on his Wisdom Well blog
..let me introduce you to the Miami Heat who recently got knocked out of the NBA playoffs. At 40 years old, Udonis Haslem makes $2.5 million a season to play for the Heat, yet has played just 15 games in the past three years. He played 3 whole minutes this season. That’s $833,333 per minute!!!!!! What a waste, right? Send Udonis out to the NBA old folks home!
Yet, the team deeply values his role as a mentor, culture-creator, and a stable presence for the younger players as evidenced by this recent article. As one former player says about Udonis, “You’re undervaluing seat belts in a really expensive Ferrari. Nobody ever cares that there are seatbelts in a Ferrari, but Udonis Haslem is the seatbelt — if anything goes wrong, he locks them up.”
Maybe we need more OG’s (Original Gangsters) in professions that skew young? What are some professions that could use a little more wisdom?
Chip Conley
During the beta season of the Modern Elder Academy in 2018, I went there and spent time with Chip and amongst a cohort that has meant and still means a lot to me (we still have a “circle” call every week, over three years later), Chip and I bounced some ideas around and coined the idea of “Wisdom…
