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.

“Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. I know people who have a lot of money, and they get testimonial dinners and they get hospital wings named after them. But the truth is that nobody in the world loves them. If you get to my age in l... See more
from Smart Things I’ve Read Lately by Morgan Housel
redefining success
Encounters with strangers can be a humbling reminder of the vastness of the world and of each other, the impossible-feeling truth that each one of us contains an entire universe of inner life and a singular perspective, that as a species we have an incredible capacity for kindness, cruelty, courage and creativity.
from The big idea: why we should spend more time talking to strangers by Sophie McBain
There are a lot of benefits to being good at that narration. Describe your “calling” convincingly and you've defined a new game that others want to watch and play. But it’s a catch-22: if you spend all your time constantly sketching (probably quickly outdated) pictures of your thinking on the bigger questions we’ve all been tasked with answering, y... See more
from callings by Molly Mielke
The things we think will make us feel happier – acing exams, securing a dream job, buying that dress – usually don’t, but small habits can make a big difference. One of them is talking to strangers.
from The big idea: why we should spend more time talking to strangers by Sophie McBain
loving the process
“I’m just thinking that ... nobody goes for a walk without there being something that supports that walk outside of ourselves. And that maybe we have a false idea that the able-bodied person is somehow radically self-sufficient.”
from The Myth of Self-Reliance - The Paris Review by Jenny Odell
Get a life. A real life, not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house. Do you think you'd care so very much about those things if you blew an aneurysm one afternoon, or found a lump in your breast? Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over Seaside Heights, a life in w
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from Anna Quindlen's Commencement Address at Villanova by Anna Quindlen
loving the process
Their way of adapting, the way they have to be resilient, is through mutual care, listening to others, accepting difference and pluralism, and being, in core ways, other-focused. The acceleration and accumulation of overlapping crises made our interdependencies — otherwise masked in slow violence and harm — more obvious. Technology and social media... See more
from The Resilience Myth
building a new world
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
The most sustainable and potent motivation is experiencing joy and curiosity within an activity. Cultivate joy for exercise and fascination with fitness to remove the need for constant external motivation.
from Exploring Our Why by Sam Sager
loving the process

from Smart Things I’ve Read Lately by Morgan Housel

from The big idea: why we should spend more time talking to strangers by Sophie McBain

from callings by Molly Mielke

from The big idea: why we should spend more time talking to strangers by Sophie McBain

from The Myth of Self-Reliance - The Paris Review by Jenny Odell

from Anna Quindlen's Commencement Address at Villanova by Anna Quindlen

from The Resilience Myth

from The Nobel Prize in Literature 1996 by Wislawa Szymborska

from Exploring Our Why by Sam Sager