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Perfectionism < Perfectionish
And everything got better because of the mistake! Everything-ish anyway…
I like “perfectionish” a lot better than “perfectionism”
Great read – Ish by Peter Reynolds. Should be on the Business Bestseller Lists every year
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Posted in Mannerisms, Mantras, Maxims.
– March 6, 2010
Here’s a slide deck by a lifelong learner and teacher, Darren Kuropatwa. You can follow him many ways, including his prolific slide publishing. As you go through this presentation, notice the absence of a “Hear it and Hold it” learning model:
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– March 3, 2010
Here’s a wee bit of a promo for my new talk show on World Wide Local Live, Monday – Friday from 6am-7am CST.
We’ll be talking about Learning and Applying, Imagination and Curiosity (Imaginosity), and the science of experimental failure (which will probably happen a lot the first few days of the show). Join in via livestream to chatter up. Soon, we’ll be able to do video interviews — hopefully using Skype or ooVoo — to hear about what you’re doing.
Hope you’ll join in the conversation!
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Posted in Mannerisms, Mantras, Mavericks, Maxims, Media, Mentors, Methods, Miscellany, Models, Muscles.
– February 21, 2010
Learning is a verb.
Living is too.
Let’s Find Out? Verb-ish
Let’s Find Out is a movement, an in-motion notion of taking action on ideas. With an experimental, enthsuastic eye towards success, sans fear of criticism or embarrassment.
Whether you call it Embracing Your OS!M, Safe is Risky, or give it the Oh What the Hey, Go For it Anyway, Let’s Find Out is forward movement, not stay stuck in your status quo.
I’ve never had my own radio show, but don’t touch that dial – it’s coming to a corner of the globe soon. I’ve yet to write a book without sharing authorship, but I have two coming out this year.
And here’s what I’m hoping for from you:
Your future not as important
as the present is now
But don’t get stuck in your status quo
New worlds get discovered
with both feet off the beach
Don’t wait for your ducks to line up in a row
Have a story of your own Let’s Find Out vision or vent? Need to build on an idea or gather strength from others? Drop me an email to mike@idunnoletsfindout.com and we’ll take action together.
Photo on Flickr by Cayusa
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Posted in Mannerisms, Methods, Muscles.
– February 12, 2010
This time we live in has wonderful opportunities to extend our learning beyond our classrooms and cubicles. There are co-working and co-learning opportunities in just about every coffee spot and with every click of your mouse.
A Personal Learning Community (PLC – aka a Professional Learning Network or PLN) can be informative and inspiring. And there are reasons beside the information consumption to build yours:
Three main ways you can build your online PLC is with social sites:
Photo on Flickr by hutchscout
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– January 29, 2010
At what point did we lose our curiosity?
Was it in school, with expectations geared toward right answers to try to satisfy an audience of one in exchange for a better grade?
Or possibly the first (or 2nd, or 3rd) time we heard, “that’s a dumb question” as a form of criticism? Or maybe that sinking sensation as we get older that we should know all this stuff by now?
The world we live in today is designed for the curious; a world where “I dunno” in some form turns into – if not ignition of curiosity – an invitation for dynamic conversation and deliberate collaboration.
In a recent conversation with the always-creating-curiosity-with-questions Mike Wagner, we talked about folks getting lost (the fear of not knowing) and folks losing it (the excitement of not knowing). Some of the questions shared and stuck in my noodle:
Does Compliance Kill Curiosity? – Is our factory-type workplace (yes, it still exists all over, even in the white collar arena) and all the regulations kill curiosity?
Does Competition Compel Curiosity? – Are we not puzzle-solvers and discovery-bent? Even if not in competition with others (and why not if we improve ourselves?), can self-improvement be a form of inner competition? And doesn’t such a spirit compel curiosity?
Does Curiosity ever really get lost, or just pushed aside by vanity? A dangerous thing, especially for leadership, is the pressure of proving we have attained knowledge.
Shouldn’t we foster and nurture curiosity in others? Build up and flex our own curiosity muscles? I dunno.
And sometimes … “I Dunno” can be a real cool hand.
Related Posts elsewhere:
Photo on Flickr by madabandon
– January 25, 2010
Did you know Flickr, the massive photo-sharing site now owned by Yahoo, was birthed as an add-on feature to an online gaming site?
Launching prototypes in 2002 as an online social gaming world known as Game Neverending, the Ludicorp team added a photo-sharing component which became Flickr in 2004. A year later, Flickr became a Yahoo property
There’s a whole lot of, “I Dunno – Let’s Find Out…” that worked here.
In a USA Today article from 2006, co-founder Caterina Fake says,
“Had we sat down and said, ‘Let’s start a photo application,’ we would have failed. We would have done all this research and done all the wrong things.”
Flickr has averaged a billion photo uploads a year the last few years. One billion. As of last fall, over 4 billion photos have been uploaded.
Rumor has it that Hermie Rendstaller had a similar idea six months prior, but skipped the ‘Let’s Find Out’ part of the equation. You remember what happened to Hermie? Yeah – Neither do I.
Photo on Flickr (of course) by topgold
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Posted in Mavericks, Media, Models.
– January 21, 2010
“The only things slowing you down are the rules you need to break.”- Jeremy Gutsche, Exploiting Chaos, pg. 38
We have so many rules (excuses?) that limit our possibility-thinking, our imagination, our sense of wonder. In some cases, it is the rules we live by or work by that cause us to stumble and struggle in problem-solving situations.
I’d suggest we favor guidelines over policies. Guidelines allow us to keep things in perspective and and bring things within our peripheral vision. Too many policies and checklists are like handcuffs chaining us to the status quo and disabling our ability to change.
Without suggesting wholesale changes to your rule book (but then again, why not?), try making small changes in some of those policies or beliefs that are holding you or yours from growth.
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Posted in Mannerisms, Mantras, Methods.
– January 20, 2010
Mike Sansone works with business and educational leaders in amplifying their voice, their relationships, and their reach using various conversation stations such as social media tools, classrooms, coffee tables and podiums. He's been cultivating communities online and offline for two decades. He is the author of the award-winning site ConverStations.
