Whether or not that directional tuning is intentional or unintentional, is irrelevant because what matters is the journey and what you can learn from the lessons at hand. It doesn’t matter if you sunk all this time or cost into something if you ended up at the wrong port, the intention doesn’t matter. 

I believe Everyone has true intentions. However, there’s sociality a mismatch of expectations of how the other party will act. We tend to skew our perceptions of other people, providing colour from our individual palettes of life experience, rather than giving the artist authority to paint in the blanks of our comprehension.

“We are the shout and the echo”[1], is something Tom Bilyeu, Entrepreneur and Host of Impact Theory, said in an interview that really stuck with me.

“ Reject it at your own peril for the following reason, Personal Responsibility is about remembering you can do something and change.”

I have the grace of momentum on my side. Now I need to gain a wider perspective via actively sharing my opinion and understanding of topics and areas of interest. A true reflection of my learning and life experience. Allowing others to help fill in blindspots and biases — if they so kinda choose. [Constructive heckling is acceptable — but please avoid holding the constructive ;) ]

My job was to fight fires before they caught ablaze. Issue is that being too action oriented can lead you to overreacting and stepping in, when it might not even be necessary. The real skill is mental analysis of the situation and quick confidence in your delivery of a proper solution. Set people up to solve the question themselves, watch and reflect on a smooth operation knowing foresight kept the gears oiled. Drop knowledge bread crumbs but avoid leaving people feeling heard but not understood. Maybe we could all grow a little closer if we could. 

We have a personal responsibility to bring the world together again. This is going to be a deeply mental game as we move into a world with never-ending distractions and ways to highjack your biology via marketing tactics. 

One of the biggest blindsides cited by Jane McGonigal, an American game designer and author of ‘Imaginable’, “is the power that younger generations hold on the destiny of the planet.” Its theirs to inherit more so then the ones who have done their fair share of work in setting the stage. Again coming together is the only way to restore balance that I see, we can continue to divide each other and clash on the minute of details and semantics. 

Or we can come together in alignment to create understanding of the whole picture as painted from two perspectives rather than one solution the other side needs to accept. When we both get to contribute feedback and criticism to the system the whole ecosystem is strengthened. This relationship has been eroding for decades and we need to do something about it as a collective.

“One person cannot change the world, yet the world can change because of one person.” — Nicolas G. Janovsky

[1] Tom Bilyeu on ‘Diary Of A CEO’, Hosted by Steven Bartlett