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.

Competence is how good you are when there is something to gain. Character is how good you are when there is nothing to gain. People will reward you for competence. But people will only love you for your character.
by Mark Manson
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loving the process
Today’s cult of convenience fails to acknowledge that difficulty is a constitutive feature of human experience. Convenience is all destination and no journey. But climbing a mountain is different from taking the tram to the top, even if you end up at the same place. We are becoming people who care mainly or only about outcomes. We ar
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from The Tyranny of Convenience by Tim Wu
A number of psychological theories have been advanced to explain chronic worry. One of the most prominent is called the avoidance model, which explains how worry can become obsessive and intrusive in our lives. This model argues that inveterate worriers replace thoughts of clear outcomes of problems, especially potentially catastrophic ones, with a... See more
from How to Worry Less and Be Happier by Arthur C. Brooks
in my (not so fun) feels
If Nike announced that they were opening a hotel, you’d have a pretty good guess about what it would be like. But if Hyatt announced that they were going to start making shoes, you would have NO IDEA WHATSOEVER what those shoes would be like. That’s because Nike owns a brand and Hyatt simply owns real estate.
from The elegance of nothing
from Community in Capitalism
on building community
I now feel confident that when executive hires fail, the most common reason is that the CEO didn’t take the time to specifically and clearly define what they were looking for at the start. They just assumed that one CMO is the same as another CMO.
from “Black Hole Words” and the power of asking stupid questions by Molly Graham
Writer and activist James Baldwin on what love looks like:

"The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other's light."
from 3-2-1: On saving money, controlling your anger, and what love looks like
Love
I’ve learned that if I think about this problem on a daily basis— what positive impact can I have here and now on this day? —I start making better decisions. I begin doing better things. Even the smallest matters of daily life provide an opportunity for this. That’s reassuring—because those are constantly at hand and don’t require changing the whol... See more
from My 12 Favorite Problems by Ted Gioia

from The Tyranny of Convenience by Tim Wu

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

from The elegance of nothing

from Community in Capitalism

from “Black Hole Words” and the power of asking stupid questions by Molly Graham

from 3-2-1: On saving money, controlling your anger, and what love looks like

from My 12 Favorite Problems by Ted Gioia