Closing the Chapter on the Past
Acknowledgements ("I acknowledge myself for...")
- Designing an automated machine
- quitting that job and going back to school
- completing that school program
- discovering deeper passions and interest (collective intellegence and web)
- working up the courage to come to ELL
- for participating in a present and vulnerable way
- reflecting and discovering what is driving me at my core
- designing the rear suspension on my schools mini-baja team (and it didn't break)
- showing initiative in the collective intelligence community
- sticking with these crazy ideas in the face of other's doubts
- beatboxing for people (which I'd never really done before)
- for being vulnerable in the face of awkwardness
- for being gentle and visionary
- for asking GREAT questions
- for your openness to the answers to those questions and willingness to consider everything
- for making the video with Ruben
- persistent learning... endless hunger for knowlege
- for kicking ass in Go and Chess, +1
- for explaining Go... and teaching Go
- for courageously forging a new path for yourself
- for your courage and cameraderie that we're building together (in metamaps)
- the move from here (slouchy and hidden) to here (shoulders back and head high)
- for being deeply thoughtful, kind and playful
- for including others in your inquiries and curiousity
- for the skillsets you've already acquired and the value you bring
- all the ideas youv'e squirreled away in the cornucopia of your mind
- for being really charming
- the way you hold space and make people feel comfortable to share their love and passions
- for taking on developing your confidence without losing your humility
- for the way you played with Dhara and sharing your joy with her
- my openness and excitedness for growth and change (ability to be coached and taught)
- for you passion for collective intelligence
- for the gentle, leaderly way you start conversations that matter
- beatboxing +7 and the performance sound effects with Ruben
Completions (Releasing past expectations, goals, promises, failures...)
- I release the idea I have to be a Mechanical Engineer because I have a degree
- expectations to work for others (friend companies) that I'm not going to be working for
- for the effort I thought I had to put into maintaining certain relationships that are limiting me
- that I lost the back of Arthur's massage chair on my first day here
- the I didn't get straight A's in University (even though I expected it of myself)
- I'm not going to back the job I quit before going back for my degree
- I'm not going to waste time learning about investments and how to leech money out of a system
- I'm never going to be a chess grandmaster... and that's okay
- that you have to loud in order to be heard
- that the world wants you to be a warrior
- to be confident and inspire people, doesn't mean that I have to change everything about me. That there's value to my quietness and humility
- Eric HB releases you from coming to the Streamscapes session in October
- Eric B releases you from bulding the Sangha.is community
- Haiz releases you from having to fix your past relationship
- from feeling like anything is your fault / or that fault is even relevant to creating anything
- from fear of being stuck in debilitating patterns
- from the fear that anything can get in the way of following your passion
- from feeling not good enough and trying to live up to somebody else's expectations
- from the idea that I could hold my family together
Sharing a Glimpse of an Inspiring Future
Where is inspiration and passion calling you now?
- Growing the metamaps team
- building this tool (for myself and everyone)
- dynamic and passionate conversations... and people coding on metamaps
- eating our own dogfood in using the tool to build the tool
- unlocking our collective intellence and increasing our ability to work together on a larger scale
- all the exciting projects which create the space for self-directed learning, community, collective intelligence
- all the juicy work of "saving the world"
- I'm immersed in amazing and challenging problems (geometrical and mathematical)
- when I speak, it lands, and connects, and inspires
- in my own emerging leader lab (wherever that is), being a catalyst for what I can best serve
- nurturing other crazy, difference-making projects
- engaged in mutual support and connection nourishing each others projects (online and offline)