Being the eternal creator and outsider
I am currently reading the book called “the element” by Sir Ken Robinson. Ken’s thoughts on education has inspired me for a long time, and it’s one of the reasons that I have chosen that my daughter is starting in an alternative school after the summer. Combined with my personal experience on how I have always wanting to be creating instead of competing, I am really fearing that the educational system is not only not embracing the rapid changes in the world, but they are educating people for a world that maybe doesn’t exists anymore.
I can only think of my own education first in primary school, then in commerce college and then at CBS. I am sad to say that no where along the lines was the discussion brought up, that maybe it would be wiser to create markets yourself – instead of competing for it. Keep on doing creative cool stuff that would have people getting nearer and nearer to you ( or further and further away from you – if they don’t like what you’re doing). Creating market share instead of competing for it. And start educating kids to take a stand, be a standpoint themselves and to create their way through life, instead of bashing other people down and compete for every single thing. I don’t know about you – but competition stresses me out. I love the fact that people who wants to work with me, most of the time wants to work with me because I am Henriette Weber, and not because “i do social strategies, counselling and speaking” – to me it’s not important.
It has been a long process for me to go from being bullied in school because my outlook was different and I was “weird”. To being the person shouting the loudest in the room trying to get everyone to understand my point of view and how they could use it for their business. To being me today – at peace with being the eternal outsider, a cool girl resting in herself and making money on being myself. And having people listening and involving because they, like me, thinks my points are as valid as everybody else. I think it rocks! Mostly it rocks because I have started to believe in it myself. I know you guys have gotten my back all the time =) but I needed to think of myself differently and that has been the hardest part.
One of the things I am most proud of, is that I am able to do this everyday. I make a living being myself. I still have to make a living and be able to get that fantastic red MG B roadster from 1954 that I adore. But I am buying a house soon and things are really good on my end (yep now I am bashing the idea of being the suffering entrepreneur living in a cardboard box down the road.) The biggest differences in my business life has been where I have busted my cute little behind and creating stuff – being structured and putting great ideas into context.
To me, the creative parts (or the products if you will) is what people has remembered me for and it’s really what’s making a difference to other people.
So what are you creating ? are you creating at all ? otherwise get yourself in gear and start creating something that’s important to you – and I bet also to a ton of other people out there
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Henriette
Oh I will look into that =) thank you Meghan!
Your post reminds me a lot of this week’s podcast of “To the Best of Our Knowledge” on “The Responsibility of Intellectuals.” I think you would really like Astra Taylor’s documentary “Examined Life” http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/examinedlife/