“How to use human creativity, communication, cooperation, coordination
and some courage to achieve a more peaceful and sustainable world?”
Many times colleagues and
even communication specialists advised me to make it more professional, but I
just couldn’t change it. I nevertheless felt I had to do at least something. That something is my twitter
bio explained here below.
If you imagine your
life as an answer to a question, what would this question of your life be? It
would probably be a rather general question, like “what difference can I
make?”, “what is my passion?”, or “what can my family be proud of when they
think of me?”. Despite their generality, these questions strongly interfere
with the meaning of your life. Because if you consider your life as the answer
to a question, it becomes some sort of accomplishment of a mission. But what
can that mission be, besides being yourself?
There are probably
several missions to be accomplished and your challenge is to tune into them,
like you tune an old radio until the sound becomes clear and you like the
music. Part of this tuning process is also to find out who is assigning that mission to your life. Is it yourself? Your
family? History? Noone? For me, it doesn’t really matter where the mission
comes from, as long as I can agree with it and it makes me dance.
Something else you
need to figure out is: can your life be a bad answer? I don’t think so, but
nevertheless I feel more comfortable if I check once in a while if my life is
still okay enough as a ‘rolling answer’ to the question of my life. It’s a fun
exercise to do. It’s like opening all your life’s windows and airing it out
completely. After you’ve aired it all out you’ll find some interesting
questions and answers, free from the dust under which old habits and
preconceptions had hidden them.
The last time I did
this exercise I thought of things that are important to me, like living in
peace and in a sustainable way (not for me alone, but for everyone). So the
question of my life would necessarily have to do with achieving these goals.
Then I thought about my possible contribution to them. It seemed to me that
this contribution starts with consciousness and the Creativity that emanates from it, the first “C” of the question of
my life. Next step: what’s worth creativity if I keep it in my head? Answer:
not much. So the “C” of Communication
had to be key to my question too. This communication about creative ideas
should of course also be meaningful and effective. In other words, these ideas
should go beyond my computer screen and lead to Cooperation. Obviously, cooperation calls for Coordination, otherwise it might lead to anarchy.
These four “C’s”
seemed like a good basis for a good question of my life. But it still sounded
too hollow and easy, so I needed some further tuning. I wondered: how do you
get good ideas across and actually start the change you want? Well, mostly it
takes you to leave your comfort zone and show some Courage. This is the “C” I like the most, because it’s what often
is missing the most. Together, these five “C’s” compose the question of my
life: “How to use human creativity, communication, cooperation, coordination
and some courage to achieve a more peaceful and sustainable world?” Almost a
year after I chose this question it still resonates perfectly with me, like a
powerful melody that doesn’t wear off. So I continue to make sure my life will
be the answer to this question, or the dance to this melody.
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