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 “language” that is created from these ways of consuming impacts our actual ways of communicating as well. Eventually after enough time is spent positively or negatively grunting at things, or making these vague, silent mental connections, we lose our ability to actually articulate our feelings toward something. Plug-and-play catchphrase reactio... See more
from It’s All Sweetgreen by Mark Sabino
how language shapes culture
I saw something wonderful recently about how creatives should never apologize for taking the space to create. How wonderfully, stupidly obvious is that? Whether it’s your work or your pleasure, creating grounds us, fills us, lets the most alive parts of ourselves enter into the world to further germinate and flourish.
from In Kind on Monday: Working in "Airplane Mode" (and Not Apologizing)
But it’s standard in the way that — the way that I get to work with artists is like we’re friends hanging out and talking about whatever comes up. And through that, things get unlocked that allow writing and performances to be more closer to the core. And that’s the goal with all of this.
from Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative by On Being
Boredom is just “What’s the use?” in disguise. And “What’s the use?” is fear, and fear means you are secretly in despair. So put your fears on the page.
from The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron
in my (not so fun) feels
We need to stop fearing boredom and be comfortable with what is going on around us, whether it’s exciting or not. This is an argument made eloquently by my colleague Ellen Langer, who defines mindfulness as the practice of actively noticing new things. You can do that only when you are not distracting yourself.
from Eight Ways to Banish Misery by Arthur C. Brooks
Mindfulness and Benefits of Boredom
Things like music, books, art, family, friends, the inner life, etc. will increasingly play a larger role in quality of life (and hence progress) than gadgets and devices.

Over the next decade, the epicenter for meaningful progress will be the private lives of individuals and small communities. It will be driven by their wisdom, their core values, a... See more
building a new world
Human anxiety comes from unpredictable environments and fear of anticipated pain.
in my (not so fun) feels
About half of my friends kind of hate their jobs, so they're moderately unhappy most of the time, but never unhappy enough to leave. This is the mediocrity trap : situations that are bad-but-not-too-bad keep you forever in their orbit because they never inspire the frustration it takes to achieve escape velocity.

The mediocrity trap is a nasty way t... See more
from So You Wanna De-Bog Yourself by Adam Mastroianni
the mediocrity trap
Anxiety, of which worry is a component, is essentially just unfocused fear.
from How to Worry Less and Be Happier by Arthur C. Brooks

from It’s All Sweetgreen by Mark Sabino

from In Kind on Monday: Working in "Airplane Mode" (and Not Apologizing)

from Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative by On Being

from The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron

from Eight Ways to Banish Misery by Arthur C. Brooks

from So You Wanna De-Bog Yourself by Adam Mastroianni

from How to Worry Less and Be Happier by Arthur C. Brooks