The New Crop: Issue #80
seeing with the heart of a child + "best story wins"
What’s in this issue:
💭 Thought: Seeing with the heart of a child
📚 Read: Best story wins
😆 Today’s Laugh
What’s your “best of the worst”?
💭 Today’s Thought
Our eyes perceive so dimly, and our brains are so easily confused. Far better, I believe, to be like children and open ourselves to every beautiful possibility, for there is nothing our hearts can imagine that is not so.
- William Kent Krueger, This Tender Land
What options would open up for you if you saw the world — and the challenges you experience — with the heart of a child?
This week, when confronted with a problem, practice exploring new possibilities using any of the questions below:
What curious question might a child ask?
What might a child believe?
What choice might a child make?
What solution(s) might a child imagine?
What permission(s) might a child give themself?
If it helps, pick an age to make it more tangible (I sometimes think about my 5-year-old 😀).
And if you’re in the mood for a leadership challenge, I invite you to bring a childlike curiosity to your team and work this week. Instead of thinking, How many answers can I have? Think, How many questions can I ask?
📚 Today’s Read
How many great ideas have already been discovered but could grow 100x or more if someone just explained them better? You’ll get discouraged if you think every new book has to be about an original idea, or that every new company has to sell a brand new invention.
- Morgan Housel
Consider this: your ideas don’t have to be new for them to be impactful; you just need to tell a compelling story. Click here to read about the effects and upsides of great storytelling and in the course of your day-to-day work, ask yourself: How can I tell a more compelling story?
See you next week!
xo,
Anne