Okay, so the "smart" virtue being about people skills and not actual intelligence kind of blew my mind. I've definitely been on teams before where the smartest person in the group was actually the worst team member because they had no idea how to read social situations. When we did that conflict exercise, or well when my team. I'm realizing I probably need to work on this more myself because I tend to just say what I think without always considering how it's landing with everyone else. Does anyone else struggle with knowing when to speak up versus when to just let something go?

This whole "hungry" thing hits different after what we've been doing in class. Lencioni's point that hungry people don't need to be pushed to do more work - they just naturally look for ways to help - that's exactly what made our team project actually work. We have several vocal team members that are willing to passionate explain what we should change or what should be included, and honestly that energy is contagious. It makes the rest of us want to step up too. But I've also seen the other side of this where someone is so hungry that they steamroll everyone else's ideas. The reading doesn't really address that much. I guess the difference is whether your hunger is about making the team better or just about proving yourself?

The way Lencioni breaks down humility here is kind of different from what I expected. I always thought being humble just meant not bragging, but he's talking about something deeper - like actually putting the team first even when you could take credit. This reminds me of when our group was working on the Recipe Lookup app and we had that whole debate about how our backend/database should be. I was worried about having to implement our own database from scratch but I was a stronger supporter of setting up our own database to have total control over what our database does. However, the team was able to find an API that will give us exactly what we need for the application, without all the hassle. What I'm still trying to figure out though is how you balance humility with actually contributing your ideas. Like, if you're too humble, doesn't that mean you might hold back good suggestions?