I get a lot of joy with a cup of coffee and idea swapping with a friend or stranger.
And yet, I don’t do it enough.
This should be a pursuit for us all: more swapping.
Invoke thy sense of awe, ignite wonder, swap your ideas, and let them ricochet where they may.
Where two or more are gathered, I’m convinced the trailing sound of ricocheting ideas is where this is all headed.
William Plomer once called creativity “the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.”
The dots are knocking with offerings and we must answer to connect them.
What are the dots? They’re endless: sunsets, story, meaning, children, food, art, music, sports, rest, rush, friends, trials, excitement, fly fishing, oceans, fulfillment, business, hope, profit, loss, strife, peace, family, legacy, joy, people, experience, stars, team members, love, and anything else you can imagine or care about.
We follow those that connect us with the seemingly unconnected.
Someone out there first thought a marriage between peanut butter and jelly was a good idea. Now that marriage owns the market share of America’s lunch pails.
A single value (as a mean, mode, or median) that summarizes or represents the general significance of a set of unequal values.
By definition alone this cannot be you.
Thomas Edison made over 1000 unsuccessful attempts creating the light bulb.
When asked about how it felt to fail 1000 times, he simply responded with saying, “I didn’t fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.”
How many of us throw our hands up and surrender the dream at step 2? I’m guilty.
It’s quite dangerous to not repeatedly fail.
Ashton.Gustafson 