What Becomes Possible When Fear Is Present
Examining what fear protects can open a more precise choice about participation.
Short pieces on the distinctions that change how a thing is seen — written by the people doing the work.
Examining what fear protects can open a more precise choice about participation.
What happens when useful actions become continual attempts to secure approval or belonging.
Recognizing a larger possibility asks something of us in ordinary moments.
How interpretations of past experiences become expectations that shape the present.
Some differences become valuable when we can recognize them within an experience.
The assumptions behind a situation can influence which actions we can even recognize.
A new agreement can begin before a group has evidence that a different future will work.
How a valued ideal can become a verdict that closes the possibility it once inspired.
An honest conversation can begin by acknowledging how we have been protecting an image.
An inquiry into the definitions we inherit and the possibilities they can exclude.
Leadership is not something that's gained because of birth or tenure.
Creating a future exists in language—it starts with articulating a vision, and comes to life in conversation.
The degree to which who we are today is filtered by our early decisions often goes unrecognized.
It's what gives life to our deepest aspirations and our wildest dreams. It has the power to create and alter the very nature of what is possible.
When we compromise, even in the tiniest of matters, it's easier for those compromises to become more and more commonplace.
Greatness and genius can easily become labels reserved for exceptional people or rare moments.
Hundreds of flavors of ice cream, countless selections of movie channels, an infinite choice of mates, our daily round of work and play, our incessant.
What marks a visionary is dedication to a possibility, a dedication that rejects outright the complacency of those who prefer the status quo and insists.
If in the making of a computer chip or a bicycle wheel some small part were left out, neither would be able to function as intended.
Every day we are presented with opportunities to live as if it's business as usual or to create something beyond who we've been, beyond what we know.
We are essentially in conversations with ourselves most of the time—how we listen is determined by our concerns (being successful, being liked, wanting.
In taking on big commitments, games worth playing, there will always be failures.
It's the word that allows yes and the word that makes no possible. It's the word that puts the free in freedom and takes obligation out of the mix.
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