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Hi! I'm Michael.

Welcome to this week's useletter.

The newsletter that's useful. Focussed on your future not my past.

My time, over the past couple of weeks, has in part been consumed with writing a short talk. It’s for a panel I’m on at the Practice Matters Symposium hosted by the Architectural Practice Educators Network (APEN)

The session I’m part of is titled:

Professional ways of being: Embracing a future (architectural) self

Now there’s nothing especially devilish in my talk but I’ve chosen a role of provocateur. I’ve not said anything new, or that I haven’t said before, but I’ve contextualised more than usual. How provocative it turns out to be remains to be seen. My guess is I could have taken it further.

I’ll publish it as a blog post next week and you can judge for yourself.

I’m not going to steal the revelation here, but there’s one small bit about change that I thought I might share.

It shaped my thinking around the talk, as well as other things I do. And it follows below.

I got you.

PS: The talk is titled, The Most Dangerous Thing

Change happens when people fall in love with a different idea of the future.*

* Pretty sure I heard this from Seth Godin, but I’m unable to find a reference right now.

You might say it’s a parallel to Buckminster Fuller’s observation:

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

But there’s something to the poetry and optimism of falling in love with change that makes it more seductive. It’s aspirational and enticing.

Building a new model feels hard.

Making the old one obsolete, even harder.

But

Falling in love with a different idea feels magical.

So the next time you’re working on making change happen, for you, someone else, your team, an organisation, or in the world. Ask yourself these two questions:

How might I make something for people to fall in love with?

How might I make change that feels magical?

Then execute as best you can.

You got this

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