A Mason's Work

From a relational perspective in the fellow craft mates disagree that sort of second tier reflective understanding, you begin to look at the work itself differently.

So it's not just a function of understanding your role in the work, but it's really understanding the role of the work in, let's say, the domain.

And so in the domain of, let's say leadership or growing an organization, for example, you might find that the work that you undertake and the, the mechanisms is by which you do that need to take into account a lot more systemic understanding.

You can't, for example, drive an organization to a very, very high order amount of change.

If you don't have the social capital to do that, if you're just walking in trying to into an organization, for example, and you're trying to get it to change 180 degrees.

You know, good luck. That is you're asking way too much the organization can't handle it. In the same way, if you were working a piece of wood, you know, you have to understand how much of the tools you can apply at what levels before they ruin the work piece.

So when you're looking at these relationships, understanding the relationships of the work relative to the environment that work is in starts to also be a core consideration at the fellow craft Mason sort of level, if you will.

When you're looking for these relationships and how your work fits into the world, look to other people that have done similar work, look to the work that you're doing versus the outcomes it's creating on the environment, sort of locally.

There are some things, for example, that require a really soft hand or, you know, it doesn't work. There are other sort of cures that may be temporarily uncomfortable, but long term, you know, everyone kind of gets gets behind them.

So whatever that kind of relationship for the work you're working with, whatever the right answer for that is, this is really the time and place to start to look to that.

Again, reaching out to get help as well as you're starting to do the work of leadership or whatever that might be, learning an instrument or talking to other people, whatever that looks like, as you start to mature through that work, get help, ask for help.

Use the feedback tools available to you and see what kind of emerges out of this as you proceed. I think you'll find that the ability for you to nurture and sort of grow the relationships between other professionals and practitioners at the fellow craft lace sort of Mason's level is probably one of the best times in places to really meaningfully build relationships.

Particularly again with mentors and peers going through something similar. It's a place where your specialties and capabilities really can add just a ton of value and help you grow out sort of in the world.

There's good opportunities here as well to understand kind of what your longer term goals are going to look like relative to the work you're learning.

You may not have started with goals and intentions and personalities and kind of modes of expression in mind. But as you proceed here, you'll find through the work that there are tons of opportunities to begin to develop a voice.

And a lot of that voicing is going to start to come out during the fellow craft Mason's sort of time or phase of growth and development.