We live, learn, and remember through story. Our brains weave each experience into the overall narrative that shapes who we are. Yet seldom do we step back to examine or consciously shape the overall story of our lives. As designers, many of us have a desire to change the world. And yet, as Leo Tolstoy said, “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” If design is change, if we want to use design to effect change, shouldn’t we first think about changing ourselves by designing our own story? For the stories we tell ourselves can change the way we see the world and, by extension, change the world itself.
Design for dreams not needs: who do you want your customers to become?Joyce Hostyn
Who do you want your customer to become? Who do you want your coworkers, your organization, your employees, your children, your community, your country, the world to become? What gifts do you have? What gifts do they (those you are designing for) have? To answer these questions well is to discover your own dream. To answer these questions well is to uncover the dreams of those you are designing for.
Who do I want you to become? Someone who dreams beautiful dreams. Someone who helps others dream beautiful dreams. Someone who designs for dreams.
For it is through beautiful dreams that we will create more beautiful organizations, communities, and the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.
What's your story? Designing a holistic customer experienceJoyce Hostyn
An experience always exists and always generates an impression, but seldom by design. Silo'd approaches result in fragmented experiences and dissatisfied customers. No wonder only 8% of customers report their experience with a given company was superior.
How can we craft a cross-silo content strategy designed to deliver a superior, holistic, customer experience across all customer touchpoints and all stages of the customer lifecycle?
From a workshop I facilitated at Vizthink 2009 on why stories are more effective than fact based methods at communicating complex ideas and inspiring people to want to change.
This is an Ignite talk I did for the very first Ignite Seattle back in 2006. The video of this talk is here: http://blip.tv/ignite-seattle/ignite-seattle-2006-12-07-2-7-stuart-maxwell-119484
Design for dreams not needs: who do you want your customers to become?Joyce Hostyn
Who do you want your customer to become? Who do you want your coworkers, your organization, your employees, your children, your community, your country, the world to become? What gifts do you have? What gifts do they (those you are designing for) have? To answer these questions well is to discover your own dream. To answer these questions well is to uncover the dreams of those you are designing for.
Who do I want you to become? Someone who dreams beautiful dreams. Someone who helps others dream beautiful dreams. Someone who designs for dreams.
For it is through beautiful dreams that we will create more beautiful organizations, communities, and the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.
What's your story? Designing a holistic customer experienceJoyce Hostyn
An experience always exists and always generates an impression, but seldom by design. Silo'd approaches result in fragmented experiences and dissatisfied customers. No wonder only 8% of customers report their experience with a given company was superior.
How can we craft a cross-silo content strategy designed to deliver a superior, holistic, customer experience across all customer touchpoints and all stages of the customer lifecycle?
From a workshop I facilitated at Vizthink 2009 on why stories are more effective than fact based methods at communicating complex ideas and inspiring people to want to change.
This is an Ignite talk I did for the very first Ignite Seattle back in 2006. The video of this talk is here: http://blip.tv/ignite-seattle/ignite-seattle-2006-12-07-2-7-stuart-maxwell-119484
You are *not* an idiot ~ or maybe we're all idiots.
Keynote at NorthSec 2021.
Talking about school, failure, success, diploma, impostor syndrom, manipulators, burn out, suicide, and how to deal with them.
The talk delivery was more personal, the slides are kept generic.
The recording is available @ https://youtu.be/Iu70J49bPlE?t=20869 (starts at 5:47:49)
Beyond your studies ~ You studied X at Y. now what?
HackPra, July 2018
A student's life ago, the author somehow managed to graduate.
On the way, he made a lot of mistakes -- and he still does.
A few people since called him 'successful', but LOL, if only they knew....
And now, the author will do another (big!) mistake:
instead of hiding in shame as he probably should,
he'll share his mistakes with anyone bored enough to attend,
in the hope that he's the last person to ever look that dumb to commit such mistakes.
If you're a genius and you know what to do in life, please skip this. Seriously.
If, like the author at the time, you wonder WTF is going on with graduation, professional work and life, then hopefully you learn a few things. Maybe.
Btw the author is 42 (WTF - old!).
Maybe that will help to provide a few answers.
Keynote on the cognitive demand of the multimodal media object of videogames. Presented at "DigiLitEY Training School 2016", in the Institute of Education, University of Minho. 7 june 2016.
Genius 4 Authority Bonding Closure Confidence People Nology Confusion ...G B
These are the things of knowledge that make people GENIUS Learn about all the things that GOD WANTED YOU TO KNOW without any doubt that will change your relationships wealth prosperity liberty independence and education Gregory Bodenhamer speaks to you through powerful lessons of faith hope and charity
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Genius 7 The Greatest Book Of Knowledge On Earth People Nology Human ...G B
Learn about all the things that GOD WANTED YOU TO KNOW without any doubt that will change your relationships wealth prosperity liberty independence and education Gregory Bodenhamer speaks to you through powerful lessons of faith hope and charity
How to defeat impostor syndrome: confessions of a developerMatteo Bruno
Do you feel like you don't belong, you don't deserve what you achieved, everyone in your office is more talented than you? Do you have imposter syndrome... too?
Imposter syndrome is common across all industries, but the increasing pressure to be successful in IT is taking its toll on employees, affecting more than half workers, me included :)
After many years working in tech for a lot of companies (from startups to big corporations) in many business fields, I found a way to overcome self-doubt and turn this weird feeling in a booster for greater achievements... and I want to share it with you!
Kocali Üniversitesi Mühendislik Yönetimi, Yüksek Lisans dalı bitirme ödevi olarak hazırlanmıştır. Personel Taşıma (servis taşımacılığı) sektörüne genel ve temel bir inceleme sunmaktadır.
You are *not* an idiot ~ or maybe we're all idiots.
Keynote at NorthSec 2021.
Talking about school, failure, success, diploma, impostor syndrom, manipulators, burn out, suicide, and how to deal with them.
The talk delivery was more personal, the slides are kept generic.
The recording is available @ https://youtu.be/Iu70J49bPlE?t=20869 (starts at 5:47:49)
Beyond your studies ~ You studied X at Y. now what?
HackPra, July 2018
A student's life ago, the author somehow managed to graduate.
On the way, he made a lot of mistakes -- and he still does.
A few people since called him 'successful', but LOL, if only they knew....
And now, the author will do another (big!) mistake:
instead of hiding in shame as he probably should,
he'll share his mistakes with anyone bored enough to attend,
in the hope that he's the last person to ever look that dumb to commit such mistakes.
If you're a genius and you know what to do in life, please skip this. Seriously.
If, like the author at the time, you wonder WTF is going on with graduation, professional work and life, then hopefully you learn a few things. Maybe.
Btw the author is 42 (WTF - old!).
Maybe that will help to provide a few answers.
Keynote on the cognitive demand of the multimodal media object of videogames. Presented at "DigiLitEY Training School 2016", in the Institute of Education, University of Minho. 7 june 2016.
Genius 4 Authority Bonding Closure Confidence People Nology Confusion ...G B
These are the things of knowledge that make people GENIUS Learn about all the things that GOD WANTED YOU TO KNOW without any doubt that will change your relationships wealth prosperity liberty independence and education Gregory Bodenhamer speaks to you through powerful lessons of faith hope and charity
ink, cartridge, business, genius, management, personnel, human resources,
Genius 7 The Greatest Book Of Knowledge On Earth People Nology Human ...G B
Learn about all the things that GOD WANTED YOU TO KNOW without any doubt that will change your relationships wealth prosperity liberty independence and education Gregory Bodenhamer speaks to you through powerful lessons of faith hope and charity
How to defeat impostor syndrome: confessions of a developerMatteo Bruno
Do you feel like you don't belong, you don't deserve what you achieved, everyone in your office is more talented than you? Do you have imposter syndrome... too?
Imposter syndrome is common across all industries, but the increasing pressure to be successful in IT is taking its toll on employees, affecting more than half workers, me included :)
After many years working in tech for a lot of companies (from startups to big corporations) in many business fields, I found a way to overcome self-doubt and turn this weird feeling in a booster for greater achievements... and I want to share it with you!
Kocali Üniversitesi Mühendislik Yönetimi, Yüksek Lisans dalı bitirme ödevi olarak hazırlanmıştır. Personel Taşıma (servis taşımacılığı) sektörüne genel ve temel bir inceleme sunmaktadır.
Slides on background, concepts, instruments and procedures of managing the phases of the project cycle through proper identification, formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
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CT2010: Dialogue session 2 - Worldviews, film analysis and the gospelTony Watkins
The second of four sessions by Margunn Serigstad Dahle of Gimlekollen School of Journalism and Communications, Norway, and Tony Watkins of Damaris Trust, UK, on popular culture at the Third Lausanne Congress, Cape Town, October 2010.
Designing food forests: fruit & nut tree guild handoutJoyce Hostyn
Looking for palettes for groups of species that work together interdependently to inspire your design of guilds (plant communities) for a food forest?
Featured guilds:
- eat your ornamentals
- native bounty
- urban orchard (apple & pear)
- nature's pharmacy
- medieval potager
- asian cooking herbal
- edible fence
- native nuts (black walnut, butternut, shagbark or shellbark hickory, chestnut or oak)
In Permaculture: A Designers Manual Bill Mollison says that "We ourselves are part of a guild of species that lie within and without our bodies. Aboriginal peoples and the Ayurvedic practitioners of ancient India have names for such guilds, or beings made up (as we are) of two or more species forming one organism. Most of nature is composed of groups of species working interdependently."
Guilding is a permaculture technique that learns from and works with the relationships in nature, especially in a forest system.
Unlike monocultures – a field of corn, a traditional apple orchard or a grass lawn – guilds are polycultures of diverse plants, insects and animals that support each other in a mini ecosystem. They’re designed around a primary food producing species (such as an apple tree) along with diverse, multi-functional support species to maximize the health and productivity of the guild. They produce a wide variety of useful products such as food, medicine, fibre, wood and dye.
By considering the whole plant community, – placing plants carefully in relation to each other in a way that facilitates interconnection and support rather than competition (for example, plants with different root systems such as shallow vs tap roots)
- Nitrogen fixing plants, along with species that supply phosphorus, potassium, calcium and other minerals, fertilize food producing plants
- Soil food web recycles plant debris to build healthy, moisture retentive soil
- Insectary plants attract beneficial predatory insects such as ladybugs, lacewings and predatory wasps as well as pollinators such as native bees that increase fruit and vegetable yield
- Strongly aromatic plants such as oregano, garlic, thyme and yarrow confuse pests, preventing them from discovering the plants they like to eat
- Diversity attracts a wide variety of bacteria, fungi, insects and birds to increase system health
- Dense layer of herbaceous and groundcover plants suppress unwanted species and protect the soil
Little Forests as Nature-Based Climate Solutions - Nature CanadaJoyce Hostyn
Little Forests are collaborations between plants, soil, organisms, land, climate, geology, & people. Disturbed land naturally returns to forest in 150 to 200 years. Because of the urgency of climate change, Dr. Akira Miyawaki designed a method that squeezes those 150 years into a 20-30 years.
What might a place where we park our car for an hour become?
What might a path, road, or active transport route become?
What might a parking lot become?
What might an apartment building become?
What might a school become?
What might a median become?
What might a front yard become?
What might our cities become?
Dr. Akira Miyawaki says that "Real forests made up of trees native to the area are three-dimensional, multi-layered communities having 30x the surface area of greenery of single-layered lawns, and have more than 30x the ability to protect against natural disasters and to conserve the environment."
Each of us is a node in a mycelial network of regeneration. Each little forest is a node in a mycelial network of regeneration.
Presented during "Learn How to Implement Nature Based Climate Solutions in your community" hosted by Nature Canada.
"Our world is made of systems within systems, an interconnected web of life more complex than humanity has the capacity to grasp all at once. It took me ages to realise that design was the main subject and that network science was the key to it all." Rosemary Morrow
"In many ways, the environmental crisis is a design crisis. It is a consequence of how things are made, buildings are constructed, and landscapes are used."
Sim Van Der Ryn & Stuart Cowan
Can Kingston become a City in a Forest?Joyce Hostyn
Imagine it’s 2030. Every child can look out their window and see trees (and the many creatures these trees support). On even the hottest days they can walk or bike along a tree-lined street to play, visit birds or hug a tree in a nearby forest. 3-30-300 builds climate resilience for extreme heat events.
No Mow May: Support Multispecies ResurgenceJoyce Hostyn
Celebrate No Mow May by rewilding your lawn. Rewilding isn't about curb appeal. It's about soul appeal. Think of rewilding as an embodied land acknowledgement supporting multispecies resurgence.
In our yards, our parks and along our streets we plant lines of lonely trees. But a tree is not a forest. Lonely trees are severed from their ecological communities—at the mercy of wind, weather and disease. Rewilding with Little Forests re-enchants our yards and our city with biodiversity... what Robert MacFarlane calls “the wondrous, teeming, calamitously threatened variety & variability of life on Earth, sometimes measured by species richness.”
Re-enchanting our gardens and our citiesJoyce Hostyn
How, by rewilding, might we invite more wonder into our gardens? Our gardens are shared spaces, communities of beings. Who visits? Who doesn't? Why? What moments invite enchantment and wonder? This winter, start your rewilding journey by discovering the stories of the beings with whom you share your garden. We'll explore how rewilding might change who we become as gardeners.
Our beautiful wild pollinators need help! Support bees, butterflies and other pollinators by converting your lawn into a meadowscape or let your lawn grow wild!
Wildscaping: break up with your lawn, invite in the wild Joyce Hostyn
Climate change is forcing us to rethink our approach to gardening, our relationship with plants and how we belong to place. Our weather is becoming more variable with wetter springs, drier summers, colder winters and more extreme storms. Let’s adapt our gardening style for a changing climate, drawing inspiration from local landscapes and indigenous flora to create sustainable, resilient gardens that welcome wild beings into our cities.
Rip out your lawn and replace it with a food forest. How to design a nut or fruit tree guild. Includes planting palettes for a black walnut guild, native plant guild, asian inspired guild, medicinal guild, medieval guild, ornamental guild, apple guild, pear guild and apple guilds.
Layering wildscapes: designing with plant communitiesJoyce Hostyn
When designing wildscapes, you need to think like a walnut, see like a squirrel, be like a bee and forage like a bird. Wildscapes replicate the layered structure of wild ecosystems to maximize biodiversity, habitat, resilience & beauty.
We now know that our century long quest for the perfect lawn is contributing to our climate emergency. It's time to reimagine curb appeal. Natural climate solutions offer immense possibility for helping Kingston achieve its strategic goals. Presentation to Kingston's EITP Committee.
Forest this being is: becoming forest stewards in a changing climateJoyce Hostyn
As gardeners, we've been colonized. We plant lonely trees, pines in lines and cookie cutter landscapes. How can we rewild ourselves and our approach to gardening? How can we learn to see forests as beings? How can we become forest stewards in a time of climate change?
how to design an edible landscape: unleash your inner gardenerJoyce Hostyn
Whether you have a tiny yard or a large lot, you can have a beautiful garden and eat it too! Edible landscapes filled with trees, shrubs, berries and perennial vegetables are a beautiful, sustainable method of growing food for yourself, increasing biodiversity, and attracting birds.
How to design a beautiful edible forest gardenJoyce Hostyn
Whether you have a small space or a large lot, you can have a beautiful garden and eat it too. Edible forest gardens mimic natural forests, but edibles are prioritized in plant selection. They're a natural, sustainable method of growing food for yourself, providing a habitat for wildlife and beautifying your home.
How to design a beautiful garden that attracts birds Joyce Hostyn
“Birds are good ecological indicators. If you have a diverse native bird population, it’s a sign that the ecosystem as a whole is healthy.” Convert your lawn to a beautiful, bird friendly garden. Biodiverse gardens provide the food niches, nesting sites, shelter, water, and safety that our native birds (and insects) need.
Despite spending vast amounts of time and money on employee engagement, engagement metrics remain stagnant. What if, instead of obsessing about how to increase employee engagement, how to improve and position your employer brand, or how to fight the war for talent, you instead put serious effort into thinking about how to improve and position your employees?
the art of creativity: asking provocative questionsJoyce Hostyn
Since we live in the world our questions create, "the most interesting thing you can do in life... is to call into question the rules of the game.” Questions make the impossible possible, help the unknown become known, and transform paradigms. To transform yourself, transform your organization, or transform the world learn the art of asking provocative questions.
Can we design organizations for beauty?Joyce Hostyn
The future is ours to imagine, design and create. And if we’re dreaming the future into being, why not dream of a future where business is beautiful. Where business delivers the promise of happiness. Where business is an incredible force for positive change in the world.
Employee Communities: Community Centric ChangeJoyce Hostyn
Customer Experience starts with the employee experience, but changing the employee experience can be very difficult. Most change methods are still based on an outdated top-down rational view of organizational change. How can we rewire organizational DNA to create great customer experiences? How can we shift the hearts, minds and behaviors of every employee? These are the questions we're wresting with as we rethink our approach to employee experience. Our new strategy is centered on an employee community of peers that we are promoting through internal content marketing. It might be working. Presented at CXPA Members Insight Exchange.
Between Filth and Fortune- Urban Cattle Foraging Realities by Devi S Nair, An...Mansi Shah
This study examines cattle rearing in urban and rural settings, focusing on milk production and consumption. By exploring a case in Ahmedabad, it highlights the challenges and processes in dairy farming across different environments, emphasising the need for sustainable practices and the essential role of milk in daily consumption.
Top 5 Indian Style Modular Kitchen DesignsFinzo Kitchens
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You could be a professional graphic designer and still make mistakes. There is always the possibility of human error. On the other hand if you’re not a designer, the chances of making some common graphic design mistakes are even higher. Because you don’t know what you don’t know. That’s where this blog comes in. To make your job easier and help you create better designs, we have put together a list of common graphic design mistakes that you need to avoid.
Book Formatting: Quality Control Checks for DesignersConfidence Ago
This presentation was made to help designers who work in publishing houses or format books for printing ensure quality.
Quality control is vital to every industry. This is why every department in a company need create a method they use in ensuring quality. This, perhaps, will not only improve the quality of products and bring errors to the barest minimum, but take it to a near perfect finish.
It is beyond a moot point that a good book will somewhat be judged by its cover, but the content of the book remains king. No matter how beautiful the cover, if the quality of writing or presentation is off, that will be a reason for readers not to come back to the book or recommend it.
So, this presentation points designers to some important things that may be missed by an editor that they could eventually discover and call the attention of the editor.
Expert Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) Drafting ServicesResDraft
Whether you’re looking to create a guest house, a rental unit, or a private retreat, our experienced team will design a space that complements your existing home and maximizes your investment. We provide personalized, comprehensive expert accessory dwelling unit (ADU)drafting solutions tailored to your needs, ensuring a seamless process from concept to completion.
Transforming Brand Perception and Boosting Profitabilityaaryangarg12
In today's digital era, the dynamics of brand perception, consumer behavior, and profitability have been profoundly reshaped by the synergy of branding, social media, and website design. This research paper investigates the transformative power of these elements in influencing how individuals perceive brands and products and how this transformation can be harnessed to drive sales and profitability for businesses.
Through an exploration of brand psychology and consumer behavior, this study sheds light on the intricate ways in which effective branding strategies, strategic social media engagement, and user-centric website design contribute to altering consumers' perceptions. We delve into the principles that underlie successful brand transformations, examining how visual identity, messaging, and storytelling can captivate and resonate with target audiences.
Methodologically, this research employs a comprehensive approach, combining qualitative and quantitative analyses. Real-world case studies illustrate the impact of branding, social media campaigns, and website redesigns on consumer perception, sales figures, and profitability. We assess the various metrics, including brand awareness, customer engagement, conversion rates, and revenue growth, to measure the effectiveness of these strategies.
The results underscore the pivotal role of cohesive branding, social media influence, and website usability in shaping positive brand perceptions, influencing consumer decisions, and ultimately bolstering sales and profitability. This paper provides actionable insights and strategic recommendations for businesses seeking to leverage branding, social media, and website design as potent tools to enhance their market position and financial success.
Can AI do good? at 'offtheCanvas' India HCI preludeAlan Dix
Invited talk at 'offtheCanvas' IndiaHCI prelude, 29th June 2024.
https://www.alandix.com/academic/talks/offtheCanvas-IndiaHCI2024/
The world is being changed fundamentally by AI and we are constantly faced with newspaper headlines about its harmful effects. However, there is also the potential to both ameliorate theses harms and use the new abilities of AI to transform society for the good. Can you make the difference?
5. then the hero wants something (aka object of
desire)
be a
presenter
life is normal,
predictable
6. leading to the dragon gap between current &
desired reality here be dragons
current reality future
reality
7. the hero sets out on a journey
current manner of new manner of
being | doing being | doing
8. experiencing progressively greater risks
will I choke?
OMG, I’m
committed… does
anyone really care
what I think?
what should I talk
about? how can I
get an abstract
accepted?
at times things will
REALLY suck
simplified hero’s journey modified from Kathy Sierra’s Where there’s passion, there are stories
9. creating meaningful change as they overcome each
obstacle naked/not naked
quit/don’t quit
face pain of
rejection, risk of
acceptance
never presented, ok I’m a presenter
with that
10. once they succeed in crossing the dragon gap, they
achieve a new normal
(at least until the next stage of the journey)
I’m a presenter
life is normal, predictable once again
12. Frequently, in the life of a priest, fifty years' experience is one year's experience repeated fifty
times. You get the same solutions to fall back on... Wisdom is to be sensitive to this situation,
to this person, uninfluenced by any carryover from the past, without residue from the
experience of the past.
– Anthony de Mello, Awareness
life is normal,
predictable
13. we each, in our own way, want to make a
difference
finding meaning in the story that is our life
15. If only I’d had the
courage to fulfill my
dreams, living a life
true to myself, not the
life others expected of
me
16. If only I hadn’t
worked so
hard, stuck on
a treadmill
17. If only I’d had the courage to express my feelings
Meanest Indian, flickr
18. If only I’d stayed in touch with my friends,
spending more time with the people I love Kash_if, flickr
19. If only I’d let myself be happier,
laughing properly,
allowing silliness
20. If only. Those must be the two saddest words
in the world.
– Mercedes Lackey
21. « le
marchand
de la mort
est mort »
When his brother died, a French newspaper mistakenly ran an
obituary of Alfred Noble referring to him as the merchant of
death. A pacifist at heart, he didn’t want to be remembered as
the merchant of death. He wrote himself a new obituary by
creating the Nobel Prizes.
22. why wait until
you’re dying?
What do you want your life
to represent?
How do you want to be
remembered?
23. One day I sat down and wrote two versions of my obituary. The first was the one that I wanted to have. I thought
of the obituaries that I enjoyed reading, the people that I admired. They were the adventurers and risk-takers…
They lived life with a greediness for new experiences, and gumption, and a gung-ho attitude that defied the attempts
of naysayers and nigglers to pigeonhole them or put them down. These people really knew how to live. The second
version was the obituary that I was heading for – a conventional, ordinary life – pleasant and with its moments of
excitement, but always within the safe confines of normality. – Roz Savage
24. a hero is driven by a controlling idea
that shapes the meaning of their story
25. it’s not your job title or job description that’s
gets you moving
26.
27. unless something compels us, we’re not
going to risk the dragon gap
current reality future reality
28. controlling idea
a single sentence describing how and why life undergoes
change from one condition of existence at the beginning
to another at the end
29. purpose enables us to overcome fear, conquer
dragons, and persevere despite the naysayers
30. a job title is one aspect of WHAT you do
WHAT
HOW
chicken picker
blackjack dealer
WHY
night desk clerk
program manager
legislative assistant
technical writer
usability specialist
product designer
manager
director
How great leaders inspire action, Simon Sinek
31. a job description is (sort of) HOW you do it
WHAT
HOW
research
WHY
facilitate
listen
design
write
explore
teach
tell stories
discover stories
32. WHY do you do it? WHY are you here? WHY do
you get out of bed every morning? WHY should
anybody care? WHAT
HOW
WHY
bring more empathy,
emotion and design
into a world dominated
by rational machine
thinking, helping to free
inner designers, artists,
and storytellers
33. purpose gets your elephant moving
inspires
provides meaning
shapes strategic choices rider our emotional brain
(95%)
sparks imagination
focuses
allows for emergence
elephant
WHY
our rational brain
(5%)
38. find your purpose
Write your obituary based on how you are living your life right
now, assuming no risk.
Give your inner critic a time out. Answer the question “What
would I do if I knew I couldn’t fail?” What do you want people
to remember or do as a result of your life story? Write a
second obituary assuming you are living that life.
39. even with purpose, it can be hard to get your
hero moving
that’s where an inciting incident comes in
40. I have a bad back
throw out back 3rd
time in 3 months
59. a hero develops a growth mindset
I
I determine my world. I am responsible
for me. I can choose.
I statements allow me to be in control,
put the focus on my awareness, make me
jimmyharris flickr
independent, assume my ability to choose
62. if you let your lizard brain have it’s way, you convert
yourself from hero into victim needing saving
Refusal of the summons converts the adventure into its
negative. Walled in boredom, hard work, or "culture," the
subject loses the power of significant affirmative action and
becomes a victim to be saved. His flowering world becomes a
wasteland of dry stones and his life feels meaningless.
– Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
Lel4nd flickr
63. a victim has a fixed mindset
. they
The world happens to me. They are
responsible for... They prevent me from…
They statements assume power is in them,
put the focus outside myself, make me
dependent, assume my subordinance
66. Editors are not the enemy; critics are not the
enemy. Resistance is the enemy. The battle is
inside our own heads.
– Steven Pressfield, War of Art
67.
68. Put this program into action, a thousand times:
a) identify the negative feelings in you;
b) understand that they are in you, not in the
world, not in external reality;
c) do not see them as an essential part of "I";
these things come and go;
d) understand that when you change, everything
changes.
– Anthony de Mello, Awareness
71. controlling idea
I distrust plot for two reasons: first, because
our lives are largely plotless, even when you
add in all our reasonable precautions and
careful planning; and second, because I believe
plotting and the spontaneity of real creation
aren't compatible. A strong enough situation
renders the whole question of plot moot.
– Stephen King
72. clear
predictable
present
future
A B
step 1 step 2 step 3 step 4 step 5
73. planning assumes a predictable future based on past experiences
a capacity for prediction we don’t possess
seanmcgrath, flickr
81. Doesn’t that sound neat, to implement a story, rather
than implement a plan? I don’t know about you but I
get tired of implementing plans. Plans always feel like
they keep you in a box. A story is something else. It’s
pulsing. It’s breathing. It’s alive!
– Madelyn Blair
82. pose what if questions
What if vampires invaded a small New England
village? Salem's Lot
What if I had only 37 days to let to live?
Life is a Verb, Patti Digh
What if ______________________
85. I’ve got a thankless role with
the diciest risk/reward ratio of
any job short of a Navy Seal.
How will you
help me
make
money or
reduce costs?
seeing
How does this person see themselves and their situation? Todd Baker << technowannabe flickr
87. This wasn’t
Large Plastic Bag
Grand Canyon Mute
Aleutian Pretzel Man
this was a real person with a name and
a history and stories that make him
laugh and cry. He was a who, not a
what, just like me. – Patti Digh
Say Hi to Yaron
88. when you’re listening or observing, pay
attention to how you’re reacting, what you’re
thinking, how you’re judging
89. If there’s a message
to my work, it is
ultimately that it’s
okay to be different,
that it’s good to be
different, that we
should question
ourselves before we
pass judgment on
someone who looks
different, behaves
different, talks
different, is a
different color.
– Johnny Depp
90. how do you learn to see? to find the story?
ask questions to understand
91. What do they
THINK & FEEL & FEAR?
what really counts
major preoccupations
worries &
aspirations
What do they What do they
HEAR? SEE?
boss environment
colleagues friends
influencers colleagues
friends what work offers
empathy (magic if) What do they
who are they? what if I were in their situation? SAY & DO?
attitude in public
appearance
behavior towards others
PAIN GAIN
fears | frustrations | obstacles wants/needs | measures of success | obstacles
www.gogamestorm.com
94. conversations
mixing different voices with your own
The family is shaped by the direction in which it points its conversation. It can focus on its
memories and basically keep on saying: “this is the way we are, this is what the different
members of the family have done and are doing.” Or it may treat itself as a base from which its
members set out to explore the outside world, and to which they return with something new to
say, so that conversation is constantly enriched by outside as well as inside happenings. We
become the prisoners of our families, our genes, our memories, only if we wish to be prisoners. It
is by conversations with others, by mixing different voices with our own, that we can turn our
individual life into an original work of art.
– Theodore Zeldin, Conversation
98. asshole! (assumptions leads to judgment)
man in suit sitting in chair lines and relationships
(assumptions get in the way) (see past assumptions)
flip focus
change the frame to change the meaning mom? (flipping focus reframes meaning)
Asurroca, flickr
99. Open your eyes and focus on whatever you observed before – that plant or leaf or
dandelion. Look it in the eye, until you feel it looking back at you. Feel that you are
alone with it on Earth! That it is the most important thing in the universe, that it
contains all the riddle of life and death. It does! You are no longer looking, you are
SEEING…
– The Zen of Seeing, by Frederick Franck
Neal, flickr
100. This power is in the focus. The act of observing, in
and of itself, makes a difference, in the material
world. Learning a new language, for example, is
relatively easy; it's just that you have to stop
paying attention to your current language to create
the new circuits.
– Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz
101. becoming aware is about learning to see past
our assumptions
our judgments
the lenses we use to frame the world
103. Our experience quite literally is defined by our assumptions about life. We make
stories about the world and to a large degree live out their plots. What our lives
are like depends to great extent on the script we consciously, or more likely,
unconsciously, have adopted.
– Carol Pearson, The Hero Within
104. an edited backstory gives a more powerful
foundation for the future story
shinealight, flickr matzoball stambler, flickr Rex Pe, flickr
yearbook designer athlete teacher
105. if you’re not happy with your backstory, edit it
until it provides you with the emotional weight you
need to support you on your journey
Pink Sherbet Photography, flickr
106. If the writer reinvents character, he must
reinvent story. A changed character must make
new choices, take different actions, and live
another story – his story.
– Robert McKee
107. freewriting…
Remember back to [youth | last year…] to
a time when you were doing something fun or
exciting. Don’t think. Just write for 5 minutes
without taking your hands of the keyboard.
109. When organizations, causes, brands or individuals
identify and develop a
core story,
they create and display authentic meaning and
purpose that others can believe in, participate with,
and share. This is the basis for cultural and social
change.
– Pamela Rutledge
110. each piece of art* you create along your
journey
enlarges your reality
enlarges the reality of your audience (calling their belief systems into question)
infuses itself into the myths that shape our understanding of the world
*podcast, blog post, tweet, story, presentation, meeting, infographic, conversation, workshop, garden…
111. that’s why Plato tried to have storytellers expelled
as dangerous people who wrap seductive, emotionally charged ideas in story
112. if you focus on your hero’s character
learning to see
& discover a controlling idea for your life story
purpose & meaning
the plot will write itself
113. the hero is already within you
stop waiting. start writing.
116. Treat it like an adventure. An adventure
worth sharing.
@gapingvoid
your life story
117. the hero is within you
by learning to see
you become author of your life story
you will encounter dragons
each dragon you slay creates meaningful change
to recap
with purpose powering you
you push forward on your quest
one shitty first draft at a time
you won’t be alone
because purpose attracts
creating change
118. The Hero with a Thousand Faces & The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell
Getting Things Done When You Are Not In Charge, Geoffrey Bellman
Your Brain at Work, David Rock
Story, Robert McKee
Art & Fear, David Bayles & Ted Orland
Life is a Verb, Patti Digh
The Story Factor, Annette Simmons
@gapingvoid
Tell to Win, Peter Gruber
credits Start with Why, Simon Sinek
The Power of Story, Jim Loehr
Awareness, Anthony De Mello
Stephen King, On Writing
Bird by Bird, Ann Lamott
Seth Godin, Linchpin
Switch, Dan & Chip Heath
Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely
Art of Possibility, Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander
Influencer: The Power to Change Everything, Kerry Patterson
First Break All the Rules, Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman
How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work, Robert Kegan & Lisa Lahey
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