I’m running a three-month project-completion workshop starting on December 1st. It’s called Next Year Starts Now 🚀 and you can learn more here.
Eight years after meeting one of my best friends, I found out he was a classically trained pianist whose first love is music. His passion runs so deep that he swore off picking up the keys until he retires, because it’s so consuming.
I didn’t even learn this trivia directly—he shared it with the friend of a mutual friend when we were all hanging out one evening in Portugal. I looked at him like he had grown horns, but I shouldn’t have been surprised.
New connections create the space for us to show up in ways that break us out of our typical scripts and patterns. The people I speak with most frequently are familiar with the things I care about, but not the person I made small talk with on an elevator yesterday or the barista who asks me how my day is going.
When we spend time with people whose lives and careers differ from our own, we discover the familiar and the foreign. The familiarity can be affirming when we feel like someone we’ve never met sees the world similarly. And the foreignness of their approach to problem-solving or to asking us about ourselves can yield insights and reflections that stay with us for years.
I look forward to amplifying this magic in Next Year Starts Now 🚀. The people who have signed up don’t know each other, and they’re all extremely accomplished in their respective fields. And even if I don’t have the pleasure of seeing you in the program, I hope you’ll share and learn something new this week.
