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 four pillars of our approach are enabling meaningful interpersonal connection, facilitating participation to prime learning, sharing insights into scientific careers, and validating student competence and potential. According to data we collected in a post-course survey (Fig. 1), students attributed these strategies to helping them connect with... See more
from More than just content: building community in the graduate classroom - Nature Biotechnology
You know, the reason, the reason that I made the hip-hop records that I made, I made them the “wrong way.” I didn’t have the baggage of the “right way.”
from Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative by On Being
A well spent life — Lordcowboy's Poster Shop
lordcowboy.com
The neuroscience shows that recognition has the largest effect on trust when it occurs immediately after a goal has been met, when it comes from peers, and when it’s tangible, unexpected, personal, and public. Public recognition not only uses the power of the crowd to celebrate successes, but also inspires others to aim for excellence. And it gives... See more
from The Neuroscience of Trust by Paul J. Zak
how to build trust
The new look aims to encourage browsing, which Mr. Daunt believes improves customer satisfaction. “If you just want to buy a book, the guys in Seattle will sell you a book,” Mr. Daunt said. “The enjoyment and the social experience of that engagement with books in a bookstore? That’s our game.”
from Barnes & Noble Sets Itself Free
In filling the well, think magic. Think delight. Think fun. Do not think duty. Do not do what you should do—spiritual sit-ups like reading a dull but recommended critical text. Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery. A mystery draws us in, leads us on, lures us. (A duty may numb us out, turn us off, tune us ou... See more
from The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron
living a creative life
She is a maestro of self-determination, of writing her own story
from TIME's Person of the Year 2023
building my own language library
Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists generally. There is, has been, and will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It’s made up of all those who’ve consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. It may include doctors, teachers, gardeners – and I could list a hundred mo
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from The Nobel Prize in Literature 1996 by Wislawa Szymborska
loving the process and
It’s hard to see history when you’re in the middle of it, harder still to distinguish Swift’s impact on the culture from her celebrity, which emits so much light it can be blinding. But something unusual is happening with Swift, without a contemporary precedent. She deploys the most efficient medium of the day—the pop song—to tell her story. Yet ov... See more
from TIME's Person of the Year 2023
Let go of self-delusion, which is maybe the hardest thing of all to let go of. Shape the thing you’re making into a pure expression of the thing you’re making: “Cut away, strip away the unnecessary, and strip away what people expect.”
from Martin Scorsese: “I have to find out who the hell I am” by Zach Baron
loving the process and

from More than just content: building community in the graduate classroom - Nature Biotechnology

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

A well spent life — Lordcowboy's Poster Shop

from The Neuroscience of Trust by Paul J. Zak

from Barnes & Noble Sets Itself Free

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

from TIME's Person of the Year 2023

from The Nobel Prize in Literature 1996 by Wislawa Szymborska

from TIME's Person of the Year 2023

from Martin Scorsese: “I have to find out who the hell I am” by Zach Baron