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.

Your decisions about allocating your personal time, energy, and talent ultimately shape your life’s strategy.
from How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clay Christensen
"Big wins tend to be accompanied by some combination of bigger decisions, more uncertainty, and greater risk.

If you want to play at a higher level, you need to be comfortable with greater swings of highs and lows: mentally, emotionally, financially.

You can avoid the swings, but you might be forced to play at a lower level."
from 3-2-1: Two rules for life, the power of reputation, and the peace of wild things
It’s helpful to think in terms of: it’s only play. We’re here to play. We’re here to have fun. And to use the feedback of, you know, sometimes failure is the thing you need to know to get to where you’re going. So if you try to solve a problem 10 ways and they all fail, you can either decide I’m a failure or you can decide, okay, I’m now 10 method
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from Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative by On Being
I like the term generalist, it’s one of the best descriptions of my career(s) and also a good representation of something I see as vital: being able to understand different domains and translate between them.
from Generalists by Patrick Tanguay
i'm a generalist
loving the process
We’ve reached what Tocqueville described: downright egotism. It’s the ideological wall I find impossible to scale: I don’t know how to make you care about other people.
from The Dark Heart of Individualism
Defining time well spent for yourself is one of the most important tasks of going day to day in this life.
Too often, we think of notebooks as a way-station: a necessary stop en-route to the perfected, polished work of art. But what if the notebook is the work of art? What if the process of taking notes is the point?
loving the process and Creativity
If you look at the trees and the mountains through windows that are wet from the rain of a storm, everything looks blurred and misshapen. Recognize your filters. Everything becomes beautiful when you change.

from How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clay Christensen

from 3-2-1: Two rules for life, the power of reputation, and the peace of wild things

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

from Generalists by Patrick Tanguay

from The Dark Heart of Individualism