I had almost forgotten about this project! This was +Seth Godin's first Domino Project piece SXSW Pokes includes 50 of the best anecdotes about taking initiative from ambitious doers at SXSW. People who start projects, make a ruckus, and take what feels like a risk.
If you need courage or encouragement about doing anything big or seemingly overwhelming in your life or career, take a look at this (it's a free PDF book).
I should probably go back and read my entry now! EDIT: Decided to put my piece of the project here.
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It seems my entire life has been spent trying to be different. Different than you, not better than you. I can’t even begin to describe some of the fashion choices I made in school for the sole purpose of being different. After surviving a bit of teasing, the admiration that came with taking a stand about my own individuality was honestly addicting. Now that I’m officially grown up I’ve given up all but a purple stripe in my hair to fight conformity and any hint of ‘soccer mom’ that tries to creep into my life.
Heading to SXSW this week for the first time I realize that I’ve been struggling to separate myself professionally as well. What perfect timing, throw myself into a sea of originality right in the middle of an identity crisis. At first I crumpled a bit thinking how completely average I will be at SXSW, but now I have found a primal need to burn trails in the brush and make my own way again. Don’t look around too long, and don’t look back, just keep moving forward. Make friends, enjoy their uniqueness and develop my own. I have to keep reminding myself of that. I like you, but I don’t want to be you. You have great ideas, but I have different ideas.
Burn your own trail
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will check it out
Oh, well, I'll tell you, I remember this one time. I'm…
I'm in a Banshee at night in combat
conditions, so there's no running lights on the carrier. It
was the Shangri-La and we were in the Sea of Japan, and
my… my radar had jammed, and my homing signal was gone
because somebody in Japan was actually using the same
frequency and so it was… was leading me away from where I
was supposed to be. And I'm looking down at that big black
ocean. So… I flip on my map light. And then suddenly zap
everything shorts out right there in my cockpit, all my
instruments are gone, my lights are gone, I can't even tell
now what my altitude is. I know I'm running out of fuel, so
I'm thinking about… about ditching in the ocean and I… I
look down there and then… in… in the darkness there's
this… there's this green trail, it's like a long carpet
that just laid out right beneath me, and it was the algae,
right. It was that phosphorescent stuff that gets turned up
in the wake of a big ship and it was… it was… it was
just leading me home. And… if my cockpit lights hadn't
shorted out, there's no way I had ever been able to see
that. So a… you a… you never know what… what events
are gonna transpire to get you home.
Jim Lovell
Thanks Lynette I NEEDED THAT! See how you can encourage someone face to face. see http://walt.iwowwe.com/free
Love this! Thanks for sharing Lynette.