Had such a blast doing my 2nd DisrupTV* episode with my wonderful friend, Vala Afshar, and Alan Lepofsky (sitting in for Ray Wang). Talked about mentoring, innovation, thinking & doing!
See the full episode with Jim Cathcart & Bruce Kasanoff here.
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*1st DisrupTV here.
The transformative stories from the BIF 2017 Summit are up!! They are all incredible so if asked to choose a few favorites I'd be challenged. Yup, mine is up too - how by mentoring I'm able to continually learn new things I can use with my clients and stay on my toes by having to think fast, challenge status quo and stay agile. Here it is!
But there are so so many more you need to see! Like Angela Blanchard's about Hurricane Harvey & the 65 Million (yes! MILLION!) displaced people in our world, Mark Brand on counterintuitive and effective ways to alleviate hunger and poverty, Whitney Johnson's S-Curves in each of us, Alex Osterwalder's honest story of life, family & entrepreneurship, Carl Störmer's journey bringing his mother's art to all of us, and Alan Webber's timely exhortation to us to our citizenship seriously. And many many more. Please take the time to watch the videos - they will change how you think, act, and interact... they will transform!
I've been thinking a lot about what makes people want to create, invent, innovate, learn. So many of my colleagues and friends are innately curious and I know that, for me, learning is an addiction. So, appropriately, I was reading one of my favorite philosophers/theologians and found this:
““Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge. Doubt comes in the wake of knowledge as a state of vacillation between two contrary or contradictory views; ... the business of doubt is one of auditing the mind’s accounts about reality ... “”
— Abraham Heschel, "Man is Not Alone," pg 11
We certainly learn through doubting - we gain knowledge and insight by doubting, questioning, and even doubting our doubts. But at the root of it all, what gets us to doubt in the first place, is our ability to wonder, to ponder, to think.
How much more would we learn if we could wonder as we did when we were 4 or 5 or 8 years old? What can we try to truly wonder about this week? I'm curious!
Deb is here to reveal to organizations their beginner's mind while giving them the tools to execute.
