And Now For Something Completely Different

(hmmm, I think we can blame that subject line on Manchild - I heard Monty Python DVD's playing when I walked past his room on the way to the office just now.)

Ok, I said I was going to talk about Seth Godin's book, Tribes, the rest of the week. The cool thing is: I remembered.

You think I'm kidding? Around here that's a big deal - there's an ongoing joke about my inability to remember things (I feel cheated - wisdom is supposed to come with getting older - not a colander brain - sigh!).

Today (oh, you are so lucky - grin) I'll be brief. I'm not going about the book itself today - this post is about one of the ways the book influenced me.

I was thinking about the stories I mentioned in yesterday's post - the Seth Godin/Facebook experiment and my lab class from grad school.

What stood out was how much leeway we have to redeem ourselves when we realize that how we relate - how we show up - isn't the way we want it to be.

The participants in my lab class did that - we were humbled when we saw the lesson behind the task - when we noticed how poorly we treated each other in pursuit of the goal. We made apologies - and began again. After that lab, we paid more attention to how we attacked an assignment than to just completing it.

I expect that a non-participating member of Seth Godin's Facebook group - who was reflective and interested in growing - would make changes as well, if they read their story in Tribes.

I'm grateful for the ability to reflect and transform. That's all - short and sweet - I love that we have the potential to grow - and I love books and stories that remind me of that innate power.

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