us – From the desk of Adam Thomas

Give the world something today

Take the opportunity of a free hour and try to make something.

Turn off whatever Tuesday TV is airing or give yourself a fake meeting at work. Shut down the radio in the car or don’t listen to anything on the train.

Let the silence win for a moment, and “make.”

Give your brain some space, and take that opportunity to show us your taste.

What can you give?

We await your greatness.

Sometimes an over-inflated ego strikes us in ways we don’t expect.

An example:

One of my biggest battles with my ego happens when I learn something interesting, stuff that is “off book,” something that makes me special. I usually assume the people around me won’t get it, won’t understand it, and won’t want to hear it.

I keep it to myself. Then I pay for it.

It costs me in two ways:

Externally, through not teaching – I lose the chance to transform and promote change. I miss sharpening the skills I just invested time in learning. I don’t work with the material in a different way, building my own lessons through pushing them from my prism.
Internally, by not respecting the people around me – It becomes another way to build a wall, exclude, and “specialize” myself. It becomes tougher to get along with them because I start chiding them from something they didn’t even cause. They are THEM and I and those who went through it are US.

When we refuse to give people the chance to engage with what we know, we’re the ones who lose out.