AI Won’t Save You, But This Human Skill Might

So the first question, what is the story that you love to tell that people love to hear?

Well, I have a real trouble, a problem with this question, because when I go into training, I tell loads of stories.

I can imagine.

Who I'm speaking to.

I know your audience.

I think the common thread is this.

It's that when you take the lid off yourself, your world opens up.

And when I left drama school, one of the first things I did because I was in fringe theater was to get another job.

Because basically, Fringe Theatre is voluntary acting.

So I had to get a job.

And I remember how it felt being in an office.

I felt repressed.

I felt

held in.

And I train people at all different levels.

So I might train engineers or I might train CEOs and they have that thread in common.

Whatever level they feel that their persona has been tacitly molded by the environment in which they are.

Now we are creatures of context so it's important and it is inescapable that to a certain extent we will meld ourselves to our environment however as positive as that could be because you don't want to necessarily completely ignore the context in which you're in that is not a useful sure frame of mind one also has much, much more space to move.

And ultimately, you were given your or that new position because of the way you are.

So why, why are you over contextualizing your behavior? Don't do it.

That's not what you're here for.

You know, I've been plugging into lots of like Taoism and spiritual thinking.

And, you know, in certain, there's a certain ethos that when we're born, we're kissed by the angels over here as soon as we come out the womb.

And our job as we grow up is that kiss is the kiss where we forget why we're here.

Pure individual self gives to the world.