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Council Ring – The Mask of Zorro
I will be leading a Council Ring for Our battalion tonight. I was trying to think of a good story about how learning excellence requires small, painful, and monotonous beginnings. We aren’t born great. We don’t begin with excellence. We grow into these things like small children.
I am going to play this clip and then ask some of these questions:
1) When “Zorro” begins how would you describe him? (Possible Answers: Stupid, a buffoon, arrogant, incompetent, thinks he’s something when he is nothing)
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Proverbs 25:28 A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls
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Galatians 6:3 For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
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Proverbs 17:10 A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool.
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Proverbs 29:11A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.
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Proverbs 18:6 A fool’s lips walk into a fight, and his mouth invites a beating.
2) What was the master’s first command? “Slow. attack Slow”
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Why does he keep repeating it in the beginning?
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Why is going slow in the beginning vital to excellence and growth?
3) As Zorro begins to listen what does the master begin to say over and over? “Good!” “Perfect”
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Why is this important? Because good things should eb encouraged just as bad things should be encouraged. But as leaders we tend to focus on what people are NOT doing right? Have you ever seen this happen before? Who are good encouragers in your life?
4) After the masters says “perfect” what does he say immediately? “Do it again” Why?
5) What was the master’s first lesson? “Never attack in anger” Why?
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Ecclesiastes 7:9 Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools.
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Proverbs 20:3 It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.
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James 1:19-20 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
6) What is the second lesson? Good hygiene!
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Why does Zorrow need a bath? Because he’s been working hard! Hard work is needed to grow in excellence.
7) What is lesson number 3? “To get to lesson number 4.” What does he mean by this?
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That he is not done learning and training.
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That it takes persistent, sweaty, hard, time and work to grow.
Movie clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxnq1YUVHOw
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