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Welcome to this week's useletter
focussing on your future not my past, a newsletter without news.
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I'm gettin' all metaphorical today!
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Our business can be like a big ol' armchair. A much loved one you might have paid a metric shit-ton for. And now, for whatever reason, it just doesn't seem to work for you any more. Maybe your tastes have changed, the fabric wore out, or your back seizes up whenever you get out of it. Maybe it looked awesome in the shop but you can now accept it just never felt right when you got it home. The time to assess is upon you. Is in need of a reupholster, an extra cushion or is your poor choice a sunk cost, with the chair no longer serving you? Is it time to get a new one?
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Sometimes we hold onto parts of our work and our practices, that simply aren't serving us any more. We hold on because they're comfortable (but worn out), we've invested a lot into or it just feel too hard or risky to do something different.
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Trying something new feels risky. But often the biggest risk is to continue doing the same thing that's not working or could be better. Let's talk about risk today.
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Risk
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What's your relationship with risk?
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Do you seek it out or avoid it at all possible cost?
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Chances are your relationship varies between work or play. Whatever the situation think about a time you did something that people around you thought risky. It might have been parachuting, bungee jumping, travelling the world alone, quitting your job, or the myriad of other choices people typically consider risky.
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My question is, did you think it was risky?
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Or if so, why did you do it anyway?
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What can you learn from those answers? It's worth considering the next time something confronts you that seems risky and you might be reluctant to do. Use your personal insights to think through it and challenge your reluctance. What's the risk of not trying? Sometimes the risk is real, but mostly it's worse in the mind than in reality.
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The other thing to keep in mind about risk is it's used to serve those with power and to maintain the status quo. A status quo that serves those with power typically suits the minority, obstructing the possibility of change.
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Risk stops people from stepping into possibility, from entertaining the idea of trying something else and building something better. As Indy Johar noted
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"It [risk] will always be part of our reality but should not determine it."
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What's the possibility you'd step into if risk wasn't holding you back?
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Let's chat
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At unmeasured I take the argh out of architectural practice.
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Helping architects rethink and find joy in their practice.
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I'd love to hear your story. Book a free 30 minute chat now.
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What else is going on at unmeasured?
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recent useful blog posts...
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It might be time for the architecture profession’s leaders to starting learning form the ground up.
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There’s two main ways to stand out. Be different. or Be better. Copying is the route to unexceptional.
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Or…
do architects do too many of the wrong things?
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“Hard work is about risk. It begins when you deal with the things that you’d rather not deal with: fear of failure, fear of standing out, fear of rejection. Hard work is about training yourself to leap over this barrier, drive through the other barrier. And after you’ve done that, to do it again the next day.”
- Seth Godin
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