The second edition of the Standard Talks series, Ghost Stories: And at Night She Summons the Ghost, hosted by Me and Leanne Shapton and presented by Russian Standard in paranormal association with Corrine May Botz, Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, Richard McGuire, and Craig Taylor was a ghostly good time for all during the PEN World Voices Festival.
I believe that we want because we want to give.
We ache for what we can’t give rather than for what we don’t have. Giving of yourself and your gifts is a profoundly transformative experience.
I give twenty to twenty-five percent of my time, energy, wisdom, and connections to the social sector, including organizations in the developing world, which successfully use entrepreneurship as a tool for social and economic change.
I also work with emerging artists who help us to see the world in new ways.
My gift is in the working of and the inspired connections I am able to make within my network. Networks have generosity as their underlying structure. Robust networks do not run on debt and obligation but in a free-flowing generous way—with acknowledgement as their fuel. They are part of the gift economy, which runs in parallel to the market economy.
Letting my gifts flow, to causes, people, ideas, and organizations that inspire me energize and feed me, my work, and the worlds in which I operate. That is why I give.
This post also appeared on the official blog of Catchafire on April 13th.
HOW TO EARN WHAT YOU”RE WORTH, is available again after being out of print in the US for awhile. It’s a great way to coach yourself through the process of getting the job or salary of your dreams.
Last night they all came together for what was an amazing evening. We explored the broad points of Game Theory Prisoner’s Dilemma vs. Collective Winning… with Kevin Slavin and a stellar group of great minds and then dove in to couple of exhilarating rounds of Werewolf. There are a couple of snaps of the game in action on the StandardCulture site of the remarkable group including of psychiatrists, (forensics and clinical), writers, performer, and physicist, CEOs. DEA agents and Private detectives/NYC cop. We gathered to test their skills of lying and detecting, http://content.standardculture.com/post/3880183245/standard-talks-villagers-werewolves .
Enjoy and I hope you’ll join us for the next in the series of The Standard Talks during the PEN Festival: we’ll be in the Highline Room in our pj’s sharing ghost stories coming up at the end of April.
There might even be a werewolf or two there, I’ll keep you posted.
Cheers,
Sunny
Talking about passion and fear...
Sunny Bates on Linchpins, Passion and Fear from Seth Godin on Vimeo.
