{"id":855,"date":"2017-04-09T17:19:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T17:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2bgreener.com\/?p=855"},"modified":"2017-04-09T17:19:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T17:19:57","slug":"step-one-is-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2bgreener.com\/?p=855","title":{"rendered":"Step One Is This:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the issues holding us back is arrogance. We have no time and not enough resources to continue to think we know it all, and I mean \u201cwe\u201c as a species as well as \u201cwe\u201d as each of us individuals in our own work and lives.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It doesn\u2019t matter if someone has no degree in architecture. If they are working with materials and educating people about the synergies between airflow and a timber frame wall design, perhaps a licensed, long-practicing architect can learn a new trick, or a slightly different way of understanding energy loss or material management, or the intensity of effort in hand assembling a structure.<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>If you go in thinking you know it all, you certainly know all you ever will know. How sad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>It does not matter if someone has raised three kids to successful adulthood, they do not have the right to then\u00a0arrogantly instructing a new mom or dad \u201chow to do it right\u201d. Times have changed and each and every person had different skills, understanding and relationships. Offer ideas, yet respect the moment.<\/li>\n<li>It does not matter if you are the biggest company in the world, and creator of a search engine that fundamentally shifted us into our current exponential growth of information exchange, now is the time to engage in the explosion of ideas inherent in co-creation through GitHub and other creative commons approaches to software innovations. Love your brain, but know the power of varied perspectives.<\/li>\n<li>It does not matter if you think that a higher power created you to conquer and control nature. You are deadly wrong. This world has been around for decades compared to our seconds of life, and nature has solved more problems that we have defined\u2026hopefully even more than we have created. It is time to understand biomimicry and bioplilia and everything else we can mine from nature\u2019s vast repository of experience. (see asknature.org for a brilliant start) You live on the planet, and you are part of nature, and this is a shock to some.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Explore the new AskNature\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/190771187?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Set aside your arrogance. Choose to interact with the world as a novice, to approach every moment as a possibility for greater insight or even brand spankin\u2019 new ideas that have never occurred to you. It is not possible that one person can have all the answers, even in their specifically chosen, long-developed, exceptionally specified realm of work.\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 0.95em;\">We cannot look for an Einstein anymore, not because we don\u2019t have the skills or brain power as individuals, but because change is constant and accelerating exponentially, and because with this population, the chances are there are several Einsteins in existence all at once \u2013 imagine their collaboration, and seek inclusion in the work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rest assured, no one is trying to take your title of \u201cking of the lab\u201d and there is no need for you to jealously guard\u00a0your expertise. Increase your value by sharing; plaster your name all over it, that\u2019s wonderful! There are a couple of powerful things that will then happen. First, you become the go-to for people wanting to learn more about that thing, that widget, that idea. Second, someone out there will no doubt amplify and add their idea to your knowledge base. You will reap that input and grow in your own skills, if you are confident enough to take in that new information, and learn.<\/p>\n<p>Afraid someone will think you are not intelligent, or not so important if you ask questions and engage in curious discourse? It\u2019s easy to say that\u2019s their problem. Easy, but not reassuring. Better to understand that if you are too afraid of showing your lack of knowledge, you will never gain the value of new information and inputs. You will be stagnant, and very quickly ineffective in our accelerating world of progress, and certainly quickly of no use to others.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not saying I\u2019m good at this. I have found, with the 20\/20 vision of hindsight, that the times I am most arrogant are the times that I am most defensive of my \u201cplace\u201d in the world, my position, or title, or role. Or the times I am trying to impress my family, or a colleague or even a friend. But I am growing to recognize that it is only through the healthy combination of curiosity, generosity and integrity that I can ensure my own growth and my continued relevance to the vast amount of work that is at hand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2bgreener.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/friedman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-856 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/2bgreener.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/friedman.jpg\" alt=\"friedman\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2bgreener.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/friedman.jpg 225w, https:\/\/2bgreener.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/friedman-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s not just about sustainability, resilience, technology innovations, climate change issues, or political unrest and silliness. It is about the \u201cflattening\u201d of the world, as Thomas Friedman puts it, where the acceleration of change is increasing, yet our ability to adapt to new ideas remains a linear progression, leaving us consistently behind in our acceptance and application of new modalities. (see \u201cThank you for Being Late\u201d). I suspect only though co-creation, crowd-sourcing and being curious and receptive of a wider base of inputs will we be able to ramp up our ability to adapt, and reduce our inherent resistance to change. And we really must do these two things, as a species and as individuals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step one is this: leave your arrogance at the door.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your generosity, your integrity, and your curiosity,<\/p>\n<p>Jodi<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the issues holding us back is arrogance. 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