I’ve been doing a lot of existential-type exercises lately, because I run my own business, and as my own boss, I need to a) keep myself on track, and b) substitute imaginary friends for a board meeting.
Napoleon Hill describes the process of creating an ‘Imaginary Cabinet’ in Think and Grow Rich. You relax your body completely, and imagine all your greatest heroes sitting around a table with you, eager to answer your questions.
In order to keep my imagination from getting crowded (because, seriously, it’s already pretty packed in there) I used the Map from Michael Bungay Stanier’s Do More Great Work.
Here are the heroes that will be guiding me in my dreams, and the 4 qualities of each I admire them for:
Felicia Day, actor and creator of The Guild
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- She found a niche with her hobby, and made it her career.
- She integrates multiple multimedia channels
- that have given her a platform to perform, all the time.
- She is unabashedly authentic. She’s still a pale geek, and Hollywood never took that away.
Steve Jobs, founder of Apple
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