This week: Vuja De’!
The BEST Way to Improve the World Around Us
You ARE an original.
How do you master the creative process and separate self-doubt from idea-doubt?
How do you navigate bureaucracy and solve problems others can’t?
How do you take incredible hardship and transmute the pain and suffering? How do you manifest originality in your world of work?
Does your choice of browser tell us something about your creative prowess?
The only thing worse than fear of failure is failing to try…
The Surprising Habits of Original Thinkers:
How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies “originals”: thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In this talk, learn three unexpected habits of originals — including embracing failure. “The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they’re the ones who try the most,” Grant says. “You need a lot of bad ideas in order to get a few good ones.”
https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_grant_the_surprising_habits_of_original_thinkers
Here are a couple of powerful examples…
Feeding Puerto Rico:
While bureaucracies fumble, original thinkers solve complex problems.
Jose’ Andre’s has some 30 popular restaurants across the US, but he barely stepped foot in them after Hurricane Maria.
He and an army of chefs and volunteers were serving the people in Puerto Rico and their story is mesmerizing…
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/feeding-puerto-rico-60-minutes/
The Art and Craft of StoryTelling:
Deah, Yusor and Razan- Suzanne Barakat explains how her brother, his wife and sister were murdered by their neighbor (Trigger warning: This story contains descriptions of racial violence)
https://themoth.org/stories/deah-yusor-and-razan
Being Original in Your Work:
At Mission Fed, we try to be original in our work right here in our community; blending financial performance with social purpose
Here is creative video of our annual report:
https://www.missionfed.com/report
Thanks to all you original thinkers that don’t let reality get in the way of possibility, and don’t accept the default option handed to you.
If you have a dream, bring it to reality, spread the love and pay it forward
No regrets…
The world needs YOU!
Love,
Neville
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“Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.” – Victor Frankl
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