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Hey reader
the crises in the world weigh heavily right now, war in Ukraine, floods on the east coast of Australia and an ever present pandemic. Consequently I was serious about it's Subject "don't think about this useletter". It's not the most important thing to occupy your thinking with right now. You could save this for another time.
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Take care of your thoughts.
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With an election coming up in Australia and all the things going on in the world, there's a lot of opinions, information and misinformation flying around. Far too often I don't stop to examine what has been said, taking it at face value or as fact. I follow without critique as it sounds right. Sometimes it's without harm but the thinking can often become embedded in my own thinking and in what I do. Motivational speaker Jim Rohn famously said that "we are the average of the five people we spend the most time with". I love this concept, and whilst it's a force for good I also see how it might lead us astray. Furthermore, if we're the average of all that we consume, where does that lead us?
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It made me curious about our thinking and what we might need to question about it.
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The question that floored me when I first heard it.
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How am I living with the results of other people's thinking?
I could take this many places and I'll resist ascribing an appropriate way to respond. The question is enough for anyone to sit with, for some time, in a way that is constructive and propelling.
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I'll only offer up this brief personal question of myself...
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What should I be questioning in what I think and do?
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A questions of professional and personal life.
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All worthwhile interrogating.
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Let's not challenge our world views right now.
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There's too much going on for that level of introspection.
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My challenge here is simply to adopt a healthy level of scepticism about what you take in, what you think, what you're doing or "how you're living".
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That main question might lead you somewhere entirely different to my own question.
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There's no right response.
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It's simply a worthwhile question for you to return to and consider regularly.
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“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.”
Richard Feynman
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recent useful blog posts...
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Using Game Theory to understand why architects still persist on doing work for free or at discounted rates and proposing ways to overcome it.
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A Question of Practice, the revamped version of Talking Crap met for the first time this year with a discussion around clients and the origins of practice.
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In practice it’s easier to continue without questioning. Questions create friction. Yet friction is essential to gaining better traction.
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At unmeasured I take the Argh out of Argh-itectural Practice.
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Helping architects rethink and find joy in their practice.
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I'm always keen to chat. Please book in.
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