Natalie Audelo

@natalieaudelo

designing social architecture and community experiences that build trust, generate creativity, and encourage authentic human connection. exploring the healing power of play, movement, music and other integrative practices.

The best executive recruiting in the world starts with you — what you are great at and what you want — and maps that to what the company is looking for.
from Fit
building great work cultures and building great teams
Once you’ve finished at Harvard Business School or any other top academic institution, the vast majority of people you’ll interact with on a day-to-day basis may not be smarter than you. And if your attitude is that only smarter people have something to teach you, your learning opportunities will be very limited. But if you have a humble eagerness
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from How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clay Christensen
"To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life."
from Image
living a creative life
The purpose of education is to develop agency within a child. Purposeful work and achieving mastery are tools to getting there. They aren’t the results of learning and imagination, it’s the other way around—learning is simply the consequence of doing. To understand this is to understand the ecology that fosters genius and talent.
from School Is Not Enough by Simon Sarris
loving the process
Remember, people are often drawn to things that are done imperfectly. Whether it’s art, movies, or books, people tend to talk more about the flawed things that get stuck in their heads than they do the obvious, perfect things.

As Malcolm Gladwell says, “You want an aftertaste, and that comes from not everything being perfectly blended together.”
from The Profile: The parenting guru offering practical solutions & the player re-defining basketball
loving the process
Schopenhauer loved metaphor, and his counsel starts with the example of a mason: The man is “employed on the building of a house” but “may be quite ignorant of its general design.” Because of this arrangement, Schopenhauer suggested, the mason was stuck in the daily details of his work instead of seeing it as part of a grand design. And so it is wi... See more
from Schopenhauer’s Advice on How to Achieve Great Things by Arthur C. Brooks
It’s so strange how we’re able to carry forward this mystery of personal identity even when our present selves are so different from our future selves and from our past selves most of all. I think a lot about this question of, what is a person? Am I the same person as my childhood self? Sure, we share the same body, but even that body is so differe... See more
from Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age by Maria Popova
My being an artist is not a question of being able to make artwork. It is a question of my willingness to make something imperfect, or ugly, and how much resilience I have to face that reality repeatedly.
from Turns Out I'm Petty
living a creative life
Compliments are an other-oriented token that don’t demand a response from the person they are directed to. They also don’t usually require the receiver to reveal anything — the compliment affirms that what they chose to reveal has been seen and noted.

I might have approached the librarian with something along the lines of, “I love your dress. I had ... See more
from Community in Capitalism
how to build trust and a practical guide to connecting with others

from Fit

from How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clay Christensen

from Image

from School Is Not Enough by Simon Sarris

from The Profile: The parenting guru offering practical solutions & the player re-defining basketball

from Schopenhauer’s Advice on How to Achieve Great Things by Arthur C. Brooks

from Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age by Maria Popova

from Turns Out I'm Petty

from Community in Capitalism