I appreciate your perspective, and mostly agree with it. :)
My advice is just keep enjoying doing what youre doing until the moment youre not enjoying it, then stop and do something else that feels right.
Fantastic advice that applies to just about anyone and anything, and advice that I live by.
What I enjoy doing is teaching, and a room full of geeks who know little about 'cool', marketing, or how to gain mass-adoption seems ripe for the teaching I've offered in this post... wouldn't you say? Perhaps some of them will realize it's a science-lab full of geeks and actually make a change, perhaps no one will. Either way, they can't say no one swung by Hive and spoke some real truth about branding, rapid-growth, and mass-adoption.
deepest acceptance, effortless furtherance
Deepest acceptance and effortless furtherance as well. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, and wishing you a great day. 🙏
hey I never got round to seeing this reply until @focus.folks just added to the thread.
Hows things going with raising the marketing knowledge?
I think its great that you enjoy teaching, and I fully encourage you to keep doing what you love and what you feel is right, even against the odds! hehe. I actually love to see people so passionate, sometimes I just get worried when I see so much enthusiasm coupled with too much expectation or emotional attachment, because I know how much I have suffered because of this combo in my own life, and how it can sometimes compromise the actual good work that we are doing. It sounds like from your reply that you already understand what I was concerned about and you're already aware of your role (rather than hopelessly consumed by it!). Teaching is tough work.... it requires superhuman patience and compassion, and levels of consistency that I can only dream about! I forget the quote from The Art of War but its something like 'lead from behind, and when you guide the people to victory, they will believe they have done it themselves'. Holy crap, thats a powerful, humble sacrifice for the ego to have to make! And yet, when you come to know it is truly right, there is no better feeling.
Big love x x
Basil
Well, the founder of PeakD recently interviewed me to discuss improvements to their UI, my collaboration with SPK seems to have launched, and the advice I've been giving @dining.gifts keeps going forward as well, so... progress? Plus all the chatter in the comments of this post inspired me to write a sequel, too. :) Thanks for asking!
You're right about enthusiasm often being at it's best when tempered with emotional detachment, especially in teaching... and I've been burned by that in the past, so now I do my best to practice such things.
Whether that's the direct 'Art Of War' quote or not, the principle is fairly sound, and worth aiming for, I'd say.
Big love indeed! Wishing you a great day!
-J 🙏
excellent work my friend : )
The community is blessed to have your input x
And yours! x 🙏