Jason Shen

@jasonshen

Exec coach helping founders and creative leaders rebound and reinvent so they do more of what matters most.

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Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.*

Malcolm Gladwell • Outliers

Redefine Your Ambition and Storytelling / Narrative

Choosing your ambition is not easy. The power of cultural context is strong.

Second, because genius isn’t linear . You can’t create something world-changing by simply following steps 1 through 10. You need chaos. You need disorder. But it has to be tethered chaos 1 —chaos that’s guided by a deep sense of purpose and vision. It’s about engaging with the unknown while keeping one foot grounded in reality.

Lane Watson • Critical Creative Genius at the Intersection of Order, Disorder, and Chaos

Are you familiar with the midwit meme? So, it’s this bell curve with a guy who doesn’t think very much, then someone who has average intelligence but thinks it’s superior, and then the guy who’s kind of transcended everything and is very intelligent and actually thinks in the same way as the guy who doesn’t think very much. So for me, I think I