Power, courage, love and fear. Love requires the power to recognize fear and act in spite of it. Love generates an authentic expression of courage: “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear” - Mark Twain
When a person chooses to be feared, power tends to be used in order to hide that person’s incapacity to love. Philip Zimbardo gives bullies as an example of people that choose to be feared and the consequences of their choice.
Why do you think that people choose to be feared more often than to be loved?
What are some popular examples that come into your mind when thinking of people that chose to be feared rather than to be loved? How about the other way round?
After being accessible only to a limited number of users, Trigwee is opening up today for everyone. Share your dreams, discover yourself and most importantly, dream along with your friends: a dream you dream alone is just a dream.
A few weekends ago, while I was travelling back home, I started working on an idea related to time. I didn’t have a clear image in my head so I just started playing with my Brushes.
While playing, my train of thought led me to this concept. Time is what I want it to be.Time is choosing the 9 to 11 interval and working on something meaningful. Time is having fun: just like forgetting hours all around the place. Time can be routine: just like picking 8am, 11am and 4pm for checking my e-mail inbox. Time can be anything. Time is for the taking. Take your time.
When I got home, I perfected the concept a little bit. This is what I got in the end. You can vote for it if you like it. Your feedback is always welcome, so feel free to send your comments!
I believe that the ability to turn mundane things into sources of inspiration is one of those rare ingredients to creativity. Are you using old stuff to create new stuff? Are you challenging expectations? How often do you manage to turn something mundane into something inspiring, creative, unusual, different?
You’re embracing randomness and the unknown. You have crazy ideas about how the future should look like. Have you ever thought what drives you to be like this?
Is it open mindedness? What is open mindedness in fact? The video below exposes an interesting perspective about this concept.
What do you think that open-mindedness is? Do you consider yourself open-minded? Why?
Tim Brown made a wonderful short film in which a young woman poses a series of rhetorical questions to the viewer, that she then tries to visualize by any means possible.
For most of us, some of her ideas point to an exaggerated sense of imagination. This totally makes sense as not all of us can imagine the unimaginabile. One of her questions reffers to the possibility of having a visibile voice. Is this really unimaginabile? No, since nowadays there is a technology called speech recognition which can transform one’s voice into text, hence making it visible.
Did you find other impossible ideas that were made possible in time? How much confidence do you usually put in dreams that others point to as impossible to achieve?
I created the “Imagine the unimaginable” dream after beeing inspired by a photo shot by teeesa. One of my aunts lives nearby a lake and she has a couple of chickens and ducks. I am always used to seeing the ducks having fun on the lake. The chickens would run like hell only if you throw a glass of water around them. I could have never imagined two chickens chillin’ in a swimming pool. That’s why, when I saw this photo I chose it as a metaphor for imagining the unimaginable.
If you asked me yesterday whether I can imagine a guy trying to maintain his balance on a bike above the tallest vertical rock face in Europe I’d ask you on what kind of drugs you are. But yesteday passed and today I just saw a video of Eskil Ronningsbakken. Not only that I can imagine such a scene now, but I can also share it with you.
If you’re dreaming ambitiously people might tell that you are crazy. Now you know why: for them, you’re imagining the unimaginable”. Watch more videos of Eskil at globalbalancing.com
“…ideas seem to come literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn’t to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.” - Stephen King
Unique. Image copyright Irina Souiki
I started sharing my dreams. There are tens of them by now, but I still don’t know how to recognize those that are the most important for me. Recently, I stumbled upon an exercise proposed by Guy Kawasaki. It goes like this:
It is the end of your life. Write down the three things you want people to remember about you.
I believe that thinking about what are those three things you want to be remembered for can reveal what your most important dreams should be. I also believe that the “list of three” should morph while you become better at recognizing great ideas and putting them into practice. Imagine that it’s the end of your life. What are those three things that you want to be remembered for?
Pinned along the steep walls of a narrow gorge in El Chorro, near Alora in Malaga, one can find “The King’s little pathway” (Spanish: Caminito del Rey). [1] I watched the video-recording of a person crossing this walkway. Only watching it made me feel… amazed.
If it’s courage, freedom, craziness and ambition that one needs to walk such a path, then what does it take build it? Would you be more confident to walk such a path if you built it yourself? Aren’t these the same questions that you ask yourself when thinking of accomplishing an ambitious dream that someone accomplished before you?
