Mon, 1 June 2020
When I was in grad school studying persuasion (yes, that’s a thing), I was at this 10-day residency intensive, where we did an incredible deep-dive into our subject areas with the help of these incredible professors and mentors. In those 10 days, we had to create our plan for the semester… and it was INTENSE. And because I’m an ideas person, I had a bajillion of them… Lots of ideas - lots of hard work - but focus? Not so much. My brain would swirl, and I’d start down one path and then question where I was going and then wonder what I was doing and then veer into another direction. Every day I’d show up to my mentor’s office and say “I’ve got it!” I’m going to do this! - … and then I’d spend a day getting inspired by someone’s talk or a discussion with some brilliant professor - and I’d be off in another direction. Every few days I would freak out and say - I’m not going to get there! I’m not going to figure it out. Kind of like when I was in theater and we’d be putting on shows… and a few weeks from opening i would think - “we’re never going to get there. This is a mess.” My directors would say - "Trust the process." I mean - work hard - invest yourself fully - but TRUST. And we would get there. When I gave my dream TEDx talk… Believe me, I had to say my own advice back to me a hundred times: Because creating a talk is a PROCESS. Here’s how it goes: We can’t get to illumination without the PROCESS. So - As you bring your talk to life - You must FIRST go through the process. |