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.

Imagination is our gift as a species to move purposefully towards what does not yet exist and walk willingly through the unknown to get there. It has a power to change what seems possible and so to shift what becomes possible. Moral imagination looks inward as much as it acts outward. It works with a long sense of time and opens its eyes to assumpt... See more
from Three Callings for Your Life and for Our Time | The On Being Project
loving the process
If I had to put the recipe for genius into one sentence, that might be it: to have a disinterested obsession with something that matters.
from The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
What we can offer after we leave our full-time, big-time jobs is actually a lot, as I found in my chat with our friend @kate_wolfson, a brand strategist and consultant, who’s now freelance after her tenure at Goop. Her advice is practical in the best ways, right down to the book rec that’ll keep creative minds sharp and inspired, and a lesson that’s universal and essential in work and in life. If you missed our conversation, be sure to check the link in bio, and subscribe for lots more (and lots more to come!). xH
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What Lawrence’s life demonstrates so powerfully is that it actually takes a daily effort to be free. To be free is not the result of a moment’s decisive action but a project to be constantly renewed. More than anything else, freedom requires tenaciousness. There are intervals of repose but there will never come a state of definitive rest where you ... See more
from It takes a daily effort to be free - Austin Kleon
Generosity is not a loan to repay or a debt to settle. It's a gift to appreciate. Yes, you can reciprocate a favor by paying it back. But the best way to honor an act of kindness is by paying it forward.
from No, you don't owe me a favor
We have a public imagination that cannot conceive of what exactly to do with children, especially smart children. We fail to properly respect them through adolescence, so we have engineered them to be useless, and so they shuffle through a decade of busywork. Partly, the length of schooling has increased simply because it could—because we no longer
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from School Is Not Enough by Simon Sarris
I’m starting to wonder if the process isthe art. What do you mean by that? Maybe the photographing, the writing—maybe the tangible forms of the work are only the receipts of something much more important. What do you mean by that? I’m not exactly sure yet. But I’m paying close attention.
from 🎉 Brandon Stanton just shared "What do you mean by that?" for members only
living a creative life and loving the process
The Passion Job Burnout Machine is different than the burnout machines of, say, Big Law, or investment banking. With those jobs, you know who’s burning you out and why. It’s a very transparent trial by fire: a means to see if you can hack it with a very time-greedy job (that rewards you with very high pay). Passion jobs let you do the dirty work yo... See more
from When Your Profession is On Fire
Burnout
I used to have these elaborate theories that maybe there was something about the movement of the body and the water that magically sparked a deeper consciousness. But I’ve really come to realize the obvious thing, which is that these are simply the most unburdened spaces in my life, the moments in which I have the greatest uninterrupted intimacy wi... See more
from Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age by Krista Tippett

from Three Callings for Your Life and for Our Time | The On Being Project

from The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius

from It takes a daily effort to be free - Austin Kleon

from No, you don't owe me a favor

from School Is Not Enough by Simon Sarris

from 🎉 Brandon Stanton just shared "What do you mean by that?" for members only

from When Your Profession is On Fire

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