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It’s all about me
When you operate from the Ego, you think the idea, thought, ability is from you, is yours. When you operate without the Ego, you know the idea, thought or ability is not from you, isn’t yours, it’s just a matter of discovery.
When two people operate on the frequency of the Ego that’s when it becomes about competition, narcissism, selfishness, possession, recognition, being right and scarcity. When two people operate on the frequency without the Ego, it’s isn’t about them, it’s about curiosity, discovery, openness to the truth, responsibility, creativity and inspiration.
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The value of the world
The most common traditional view of what we would consider intelligence, like the ability to calculate, reason logic, pattern recognition, memorize and recall facts and knowledge. Our education system is a narrow funnel built to develop and recognize only this kind of intelligence.
But intelligence comes in many different and unique capacities. What about those whose intelligence operates in a different realm. Intelligence in kinesthetics, like sports, performance, building, working with your hands. Aesthetics, like spatial ability, arrangement and color intelligence, visualization. Compassion and empathy, the heightened capacity to understand and hear other people. Leadership. Service. Communication, listening and speaking. Creativity. And so much more. Everyone unique. Each one as valuable as the other.
We need each of them to help inform, teach and bring awareness to what we do. As we are able to understand more of each other, it gives us more meaning, connection and value to what we do. But it seems we are left to our own devices, if our “intelligence” is outside of the common accepted formats. We’ll spend much of our lives not even aware of our value or uniqueness. Never even acknowledged, because it doesn’t fit the mold, expectations, convention, status quo. There are a few fortunate ones that someone, maybe from a similar background, that is able to identify the uniqueness and help mentor them.
But for many of us we’re left to figure it out on our own, if we ever do. And even if we do “figure” it out, we’re on our own to develop it, seek it out, nurture it, bring it to life, fruition. There are no simple solutions. It would be so much more efficient and optimized if our education system could be more encompassing, our community, family and friends could be the exact resource we need. But most things are never really ideal.
I guess I would say, we don’t need permission or acceptance to value what is valuable. Know that our uniqueness is intrinsically valuable, it’s what brings life. It’s a belief we have to hold onto, so that we can discover and get to know our value, to help us get through the moments we might feel less than or have a hard time seeing or knowing. And we don’t need permission to develop our intelligence, maybe we’ve been ingrained to think that we need somebody else to tell us what to do. It maybe hard, unknown, confusing, feel impossible but we know ourselves better than anyone else, we just have to trust our instincts, intuition. Sometimes it’s self-work, recalibrating, honesty, accepting mistakes, seeking out teachers, listening to voices, listening to your own voice, practice, discouragement, triumphs. But it’s worth it. You’re worth it. And if it’s worth it to you, it’s worth it to us. We need you to recognize and bring your value to the world. And sometimes maybe bringing that value into the world is meant to not be easy, not obvious, a journey only you can take, and only you can know how difficult it was. Maybe there’s value in that.
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Creativity Business
I’m a creativist learning from others and teaching myself how to navigate a results-oriented world. Trying to reconcile compassion and competition, listening and speaking, leading and following, connectedness and individualism. What I’ve ultimately learned is there’s so much to learn. And the most creative posture is openness, humility and curiosity through the eyes of a growth mindset.
As a creative, I’ve become more fluent in the language on the side of business and people. I’ve come to embrace and take on the responsibility of championing art, as the expression of the story of the product, company, people. Art, creativity, design, writing, storytelling is the interface of product between the people and the people. I’ve been thinking and a thesis I’ve been proof-of-concepting is, if there are people with a problem, you have a purpose, if you have a purpose then theoretically it will tell you the story of the product.
I’ve embraced the mindset of generosity and giving, which has helped me discover it’s not what you’re doing, but it’s bringing all of yourself to what you do. What I’ve found is this creative/business mesh is unique and necessary. It’s a communication bridge between the creative and business.
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It’s in what you do
Be a source of knowledge and inspiration, bring insight and experience to the value of bringing yourself into what you do. Be the validation. Be the proof. Be the example… that it is needed, that it is valued. That it can be done with grace, compassion and empathy. Let being in the moment lead the way, let your intellect and insight draw from the well of your intellect, insight and experience. Let your creativity, that is, bringing the ethereal; inspiration, empathy and compassion into reality, into what you do.
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Right to be wrong. Wrong to be right.
So much baggage in not wanting to be wrong. Being wrong would mean a mistake, failure, miscalculation, misjudgment. Be wrong is not as good as being right. Being wrong is looked down upon. The perception of losing credibility. Maybe losing trust. Too many wrong calculations can mean failure. Being wrong would mean, you thought you were right at one point. That would mean having to admit you were wrong. Maybe needing to apologize. Admitting you were wrong would mean having to look at yourself with honesty.
So much baggage in having to be right. Having to be right is tiring. Creates defenses, offenses. Being right isn’t the same as what’s actually true. Having to be right isn’t about valuing what’s right, it’s about winning. Having to be right is maintaining a perception, ego, the idea of not being flawed. Having to always be right is a mindset of trying to avoid criticism, trying to be perfect, unrealistic.
Not wanting to be wrong. Having to be right. Maybe two-sides of the same coin. I remember as a young adult, having this mindset and perceptions. I just thought that’s how I was supposed to be, that the world expected perfectionism and anything less is probably not very useful. And at the very least I should give off the perception of having a high success rate.
Granted, being wrong isn’t a great feeling. But at some point, the need to always be right starts to overtake the more sustainable and higher value of being honest with yourself. But once I was able to let go of the responsibility of having to be right or not having to be wrong, and just be a curiosity of what’s true, then I just become an explorer or recorder of what I’m seeing or experiencing. It doesn’t become a moral judgment of my value. And the value actually becomes more on the relationship of two sides experiencing, discovering and traveling “truth” together.
So even when someone has shed the baggage of not wanting to be wrong and having to be right. As you give yourself permission to be so, you’re giving other people to be so and people with same empathy will start to appear, hiding in plain sight. But occasionally you’ll still have to work with, interact and relate to those that hold onto the old stress of this baggage. It’s okay. They’re okay. You’re still okay. We find whatever works for them, yourself, myself at the time. We’re all on our own journey, experiencing our own process – closer to compassion, empathy and understanding.
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Be Yourself
Being yourself is letting yourself be yourself.
Freedom is realizing you don’t need anyone else’s permission to be yourself.
Generosity is giving to other by being yourself.
Confidence is knowing that the best of who you are is being yourself.
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High-Fidelity
I think more than money, influence, notoriety, we want deep connection in what we do. That empowers us to live a life of generosity, ease, flowstate, and being present in everything they do. Low stress, low anxiety, low fear-state producing clean, pure, high-fidelity energy. Doing something that begets more energy, looping into each other, creating a virtually unending amount of movement and forwardness.