Robert Best+Next Step - Emerging Leader Labs

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