Humainologie creative dialogue tomorrow Wednesday December 8 on Your Next Odyssey
- Arthur Clark
- Dec 7, 2021
- 3 min read
“Greater even than the greatest discovery is to keep open the door to future discovery.” – John Jacob Abel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jacob_Abel
“The greatest mistake a man can ever make is to be afraid of making one.” – Elbert Hubbard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbert_Hubbard
“Absolutely, I think every day is a new day, every day is a new opportunity, and every day is a new chance.” Jennifer Winget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Winget
Your next Odyssey will lead to your next “You.” And who are you, really?
Any quotation you find inspiring can help answer that question. Depending on who your undiscovered self might be, you might find a clue in that Emily Dickinson poem “If I can stop one heart from breaking…My life will not have been in vain.” In the closing of the romantic comedy “Sleepless in Seattle,” there’s a song that says something similar yet different, expanding that domain of possibilities for your quest. Here’s the song, as sung by Jimmy Durante:
What if you set out on a quest over the next year to actualize that particular idea? How would you design your quest?
You have almost certainly thought of things you would like to do in the not-too-distant future. By integrating anything like that into a structured plan for a quest, you give your daydreams the substance that can make them reality.
Here once again are the good questions for our creative dialogue on Your Next Odyssey, tomorrow Wednesday December 8.
1. If you have embarked on an odyssey within the past year or two, please share with us an update on your journey so far.
2. If there was a year of living dangerously or some other time in your past that could – in retrospect – be called an odyssey, please share a description of that time of your life. Are you glad you had that experience?
3. Chris Gillebeau refers to the transformative effects that quests have had on many lives. He also refers to less ambitious versions of the quest, even something that can be imagined and done in a day or even in a few hours. The next few questions will be about quests of different levels of ambition that you can imagine. First, think big. Imagine there is a quest that could take as much as a year or even more to complete, and the reward would be that for the rest of your life you feel that it was the smartest thing you ever did. Stretch your imagination. Come up with at least one idea for a quest that might – just might – give you a transformative experience of that magnitude. Write down your idea and share it with us at the dialogue.
4. Imagine that for the New Year you will plan at least one new quest for each month of 2022 and complete it within the month. Each such idea should take no more than a month to complete and could take as little as a day or two. Give yourself 30 minutes to write down a dozen such ideas for short-term quests you could do in 2022. Ready, set, GO!
5. Imagine a quest that is interesting enough that you find it almost irresistible, yet it would take less than a day to complete, and perhaps you could even do it in less than three hours. Again, it may help to give yourself just 30 minutes to generate those ideas and write them down.
And here is the Zoom link for our port of departure tomorrow, Wednesday December 8, as provided by Shinobu:
Topic: Humainologie Dialogue Session Time: December 8, 2021 06:30 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada) Every week on Wed, until Dec 29, 2021, 9 occurrence(s) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89600374916?pwd=OXg2dkF4NEtsMmNzSkdRdW1kdUV5UT09 Meeting ID: 896 0037 4916 Passcode: 12345
Bon Voyage!
Arthur
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