Theme 53: Beyond

Uma das coisas que mais marcou foi um professor que falou assim: o "como" você ensina, ensina mais do que "o que" você ensina

Quando você cresce tendo esta conexão com a natureza que é tão forte, você quer defender isso com todas as forças

John Hardy, que é o fundador, fala: Eu gosto quando eu passo na sala de aula e não tem ninguém porque significa que eles estão fazendo alguma coisa na vida real

A maioria das escolas convencionais foca apenas no aspecto cognitivo intelectual das crianças. Quando a gente fala do ensino holístico tem outros três aspectos que são: social, emocional e o físico. Isso significa que uma aula de teatro tem o mesmo peso de uma aula de matemática ou que uma aula de ciências tem o mesmo peso de uma aula de Ioga porque eu tô desenvolvendo um indivíduo, preparando alguém pra vida e não pra mercado de trabalho

Não interessa da onde você vem, qual a sua religião, qual sua crença, interessa o que você tem pra compartilhar com as pessoas

A escola também é um micro cosmo do nosso mundo globalizado

As paredes acabam limitando a gente psicologicamente de achar que a nossa vida tem que ser sempre igual

Perceber o quanto a natureza mostra pra gente que tudo é impermanente, que tudo passa e que tudo muda. Que a regra do mundo é a mudança

O fato de não ter paredes na escola incentiva a exploração, experimentação e testar várias coisas

E aí a gente sai da escola nesse modelo em que até o terceiro ano você tem que pedir para ir ao banheiro e quando você sai de lá, um ano depois, você tem que votar, dirigir, decidir o que você vai fazer da sua vida.

Eu nunca conversei com crianças tão auto confiantes em toda a minha vida.

Quando eu comecei a respirar e vivenciar essa experiência na Green School foi que eu comecei a conectar mesmo, de fato, a relação que a escola e o modelo de educação tem na nossa vida, o impacto disso. Lá é um espaço onde se valoriza o indivíduo, se respeita o indivíduo, se dá liberdade, autonomia e responsabilidade também.

Comecei a pensar sobre essa questão da educação. O quanto isso influencia a vida que a gente leva.

Telling stories does have the power to influence people and create change.

The creative process is essentially impossible to describe.

I made my ignorance a badge of honor…what that meant was that I asked a lot of questions.

Go for three feet past the finish line and you’ll do better than everybody, every time.

Мы общаемся с образами других людей, которые существуют у нас в голове

Эволюции в голову бы не пришло создавать животное, которое сидит и рефлексирует

You have to act outside of [your] bubble in order to effect change, it can be uncomfortable, but thats the space where you begin to really make a difference.

When you begin to understand why people are saying the things that they're saying to you, and not just understanding, but empathize with them, you begin to realize where and how you can make effective change.

The way we start our day, determines the way we finish our day.

We need people around us.

Are those people speaking in to your world? Or are you speaking into their world?

Who is your circle of influence?

We need to surround ourselves with the right people.

We need a clear vision, with a bold why.

The most important part of any talk is the Q&A: questions and application, not just answers.

When I'm pushing myself beyond what I think I'm capable of, that's where growth happens

Laughter unlocks a higher level of brilliance.

When I have to come with ideas, especially when it's in a pinch, I need to create the conditions for creativity.

If something doesn't fit you, you can tailor it fit you better.

Identity is something that can shift, and I started to think about, 'How can I take what makes me me and the things that are my strengths that I do well and with little effort and bring those into the things that are really uncomfortable?'

Refinery29 started as a tiny idea which was to celebrate the independent makers of New York City, the people that were bringing together really unique and diverse communities and celebrating personal style.

It was the culture of New York that inspired the idea behind Refinery29.

We shake it out because play creates trust. We shake it out because it gets us out of our heads and into our bodies. We shake it out because it levels the playing field.

I was always put in a box as "I'm an artist. You're an artist. You have to do this. You have to do that." I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be an artist. Most artists find a medium and they stick with it. I'm all over the map with my mediums. I wanted to find a way to have multiple mediums but also create a business out of it.

Design, code and technology. I think technology is really where 'beyond' is most important.

We just made it work. We made stuff happen that most people generally wouldn't even attempt.

Everyone has the right to be more than it is. To advance further.

Opportunities need to be created, opportunities must exist.

Throughout that time, the thing that most mobilized me was to see a lot of potential being developed.

More than going beyond is not falling short of what we are, than we can.

We had no background in starting a business, fundraising, programming, robotics, material science or mechanical engineering. But what we lacked in somewhat critical skills, we made up for in ambition.

The first thing that you need to know about Branch Technology, we didn't work our way up to the crazy stuff. We started with the crazy stuff.

Our biggest breakthroughs always seem to happen by accident. Progess would take us by surprise whether we knew it or not.

Whatever field you’re in, you’ve got to find the scariest [makes fun bleeping noise]’ing thing in your area of profession, and then do it. I mean the scariest thing. The thing like “Nguuuh, I better not touch that!” Touch that, grab it, get on it, and then you can go beyond it.

Why keep doing what you know? Don't you want to try learn new? And that's the thing I love about CreativeMornings, is that you really have the ability to meet someone who can help you have a new opportunity you never even thought of.

No one is so loyal to their new place than the migrant.

At the edges where conflict is still fresh also culture is still alive.

If you disregard your assumptions about mostly everything and approached your existence more open-minded, that would help you give in and seek out and information to get you on a path.

What if you approach things, in anything, small things, big things, you look at it and consider the process of how something is made?

But what if you did imagine that you could find inspiration in weird places or that human connections can lead you to your next big idea?

Honesty and truly and with my whole sense of being that I approach life with this sense of wonder, and candy taught me that because of the limitless potential that it has.

Why don't we just start with our own ideas? Why do we have to use the internet to get ideas? . . . I don't want to do that. I want to make it up. I want to start from the beginning and do it ourselves.

There's nothing worse than people who want to resort to doing what's easy or who say in a meeting 'that sounds hard' . . . there's just no room for that in the way I want to operate my life or business.

How do we do what I want to do the way I want to do it? . . . This idea of limitless potential that candy has provided has caused me to able to go beyond with it as my job.

Dancing taught me so much about discipline. Discipline means doing things whether you want to or not. It means doing things that you don't necessarily like doing. It means doing things when you just think you don't have it in you. And it means doing things that others tell you you aren't capable of doing.

Right now Louisville is experiencing a renaissance of the arts.

"Being alone is no way to live or create. We are all better working with others, to give more and be more, than we ever could be alone.

Your people will have your back.

Incorporate your challenges into your creative work.

The things that challenge you and push you and make your life difficult are the things that make you different.

You have a built-in community of people who not only share your experiences, but are waiting for you to tell them.

We are all misfit toys and we are enough, just so.

It helps to remember that we are all products of every amazing, terrible, shameful experience we’ve been through.

You never get from ignore to overcome in one step.

Overcoming is where the joy is.

We can push ourselves beyond our comfort zones to actually leverage the struggles and the difficult life experiences that we’re going through to make our creative work better.

Struggle is universal. Struggle is a thing that everyone experiences…and it’s super uncomfortable.

When we find ourselves in moments where we’re like ‘argh’, those are actually the most critical moments for us to step forward.

We worry so often about what other people will think that it actually prevents us from stepping into our own light and sharing our truths with the world.

When I go talk to people, and just to switch things up, I don’t just say I’m a hurdler, I say: “I overcome obstacles for a living.”

Own the fact that you’re many things in life, don’t just be an athlete, don’t just be an entrepreneur, don’t just be a coach, an ally, a brother, employer, and so on.

You are more than your elevator pitch […] “Hi I’m X, I’m a man or woman of many things. and let’s chat.” That sparks curiosity.

I'm never like, "You have to know me," no, it's your work that has to do the language to talk, not you as a person.

It was me they wanted to work with, not the camera, not the techniques, not the rational part. No, the emotional part.

"Til the end of the world" was playing, Bono was walking on the stage, and suddenly he made a move to me. . . . He became closer and closer and suddenly he pulled me—and I'm a big guy and he's short—up stage. Suddenly in front of 40,000 people, I was there, like, what the hell.

So I put on my lens, I put in a certain film, and I look through my lens and I still remember the moment I looked through the lens and said, "This is my life. This is what I want to do; this is it."

Nowadays you buy a digital camera and you say, "Oh, I'm a photographer." That's not the way it works. The way it works is becoming a photographer, it's your own skills, not the camera, because everybody can learn the manual.

Maybe it’s time for a Berlin Manifesto: How to use 10% of our creativity to re-design the world in a better way?

If you don’t have hope, if you don’t have any kind of positive alternative, I think you come up with something which is sort of ‘OK, I give up. The world is like this.’

And if you end the day not doing anything except caring about yourself, that's one more day lost to making this a great community.

Stay engaged. Don't become so focused on what your specific career is that you forget that there's a community you live in.

I want to see us move past the politics of fear, which is driving so much of what's happening in Charlotte, in North Carolina, and across this country.

It was important, even if we didn't win, that a view point be expressed that reflected a lot of North Carolina.

I saw a relationship between what I did for my full-time job and I did as a contribution to the community. This need to take all of the diversity out there, and all of the opinions out there, and as a mayor try to assemble and hear everybody and then see if we can craft a creative solution.

The greatest satisfaction for me is when I visit the project after it's been designed and I can walk into that space and just look around to see if what they told me way back in the beginning is how they're actually using the space.

I design buildings for people

It's going to be tougher fighting a battle that really dwells in people's hearts.

They had a responsibility to do well adn then to achieve and to reach out to make the promise real for others who might be less fortunate.

You just can't sit back and be satisfied in your own achievement, the promise the promise the promise has to be made real for a whole lot of [people] who had not be inspired maybe by their life circumstances.

If there was a theme running through my childhood it was always that the promise of America was going to be made real for you.

its all about exploring the unknown

If you work at it, you’re going to get it. I’m living proof of that.