Theme 73: Tradition

These are marathon cooking stations, but practice staying grounded and for what it is, these are skills that are easily transferable.

Think about the ways that the holiday food traditions do impact you. How does it connect you to your past, to your family’s heritage, to your culture? What memories are triggered by those smells and the visuals and the taste of the holiday food?

I believe every dish tells a story.

Sometimes food is not about a personal thing—it’s creating that memory for somebody else.

Cooking is a sensory experience and those memories can be very vivid, depending on what you’re connecting to.

Cheese has been with us since we started being human... and these traditions just might be able to help us carry on and achieve balance in a highly uncertain future.

Tradition can also be grounding, it can remind us where we come from. And where we want to go.

Face to face interactions have never been more important.

Even though I'm working with completely different demographics and stages in life, they all feel the benefits [of singing].

Singing is life affirming.

We sing at the big moments in life.

Nebojte se založit si vlastní tradici, ať už bude jakkoliv bláznivá.

Nebojte se dát své děti na řemeslo, budou se mít dobře.

Aby tradiční značka přežila, je pro ni důležité, aby byla schopna inovovat.

Don’t worry about the believability of your stories. The reader will believe everything you want them to. The only thing you have to make sure is that you create a character with which the reader can empathise. They have to see and recognise something of themselves in the characters.

By reading we will develop our imagination which means that we will also increase our empathy levels. And neuroscientists actually found out that when you read fiction you will get this immediate boost of empathy.

Sometimes when I read books it feels like the author reaching out his hand to me and saying, “Hey, I get it, I’ve been through this before. I can explain it to you and while I explain to you I just sit next to you and let you know that you’re not alone.”

One night I thought my life would be very different if I was just like Pippi Longstocking. And then I thought what if every time I am anxious or scared to walk up to other kids I just imagined that I was Pippi Longstocking?

Toute ma vie, j'ai rêvé d'un théâtre qui n'existait nulle part autour de moi.

Think deeply about how people will consume your art, and take care to make their experience as full and lasting as possible.

By creating work with the intention of generosity and then setting it free, I found that generosity can be a medium—a lot like color.

It's important to respect tradition and to challenge it as well.

I think of entrepreneurs as people that do two things. One, they solve problems creatively; and two, they seize opportunities. That's what I try to do in my role as mayor.

“Honestly, the entire topic of public art is a ‘soapbox territory’ for me. As far as I’m concerned, more art should be accessible; more art should encourage us to participate in our communities; more art should bring people unexpected joy.”

What we really need to do is share our traditions, because by sharing our traditions we could prevent these unshakeable extreme views of people, because we get to know each other. We all get a greater sense of understanding of who we are and who our neighbours are and instead of living in fear we're able to accept them and even adopt some of their traditions as our own.

When somebody learns their community's traditions they are given that sense of belonging.

Traditions give us a sense of identity and identity is what helps us define our community. That's what makes us feel good and gives us the strength to survive.

Which traditions in your life inspire joy and connection?

We bridge tradition and creativity with intention.

Creativity is thinking outside the box. It’s coming up with something that matters for you.

Creativity is doing something new and different.