I'm a very lucky girl. I've said this before, in fact I've been waxing lyrical about how lucky I am on this blog. And every now and again the universe nudges me a bit more and gives me an extra gift.
I bought a ticket to Interesting2009, after loving the 2008 and 2007 installments, and inadvertently won a ticket to the Do Lectures! (In fact, if you click on the Interesting link, you'll see as the first post me winning the ticket!) The Do Lectures are a set of 20 lectures intended to inspire people to do. A bunch of people gathered at Fforest Farm in Wales this past weekend, but the talks will also appear online. I am a strong believer in the universe conspiring with you to bring you the things you need at times, and since I'd pronounced 2009 my year of 'learning [to do]' I just HAD to say yes (no arm twisting needed though, I was jumping up and down when I hear).
And it was awesome! I had very little time to prepare seeing that I was busy running around trying to keep my life sorted out, so I really didn't know what to expect in terms of speakers or the location and I was glad to find out that both were excellent. The speakers were a diverse bunch of people who really inspired me, the venue was excellent (see pic at the top left, what a view!), the food absolutely scrumptious and the fellow attendees as interesting as the speakers.
I took copious notes and thought I'd write out some of them, to give you a flavour of what the lectures were like. What I was thinking was to write them out over a few blogposts or so, since writing the whole thing down in one post is kinda daunting.
At the start there was a small introduction, about which I took the following notes: Do Lectures are about motiving people to take action and finding their urgency. They're about the intersection of heart&soul, smart business and nature: triple top line business design. Do Lectures are about faster radical change, in a connected way.
There you go. I'll leave you with a picture of one of the first lectures. Go Do!
congrats on winning the ticket. hope you are enjoying the lectures. you piqued my interest, and i'm eagerly looking forward to videos be posted online.
- Murali
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Posted by: Murali | Monday, 07 September 2009 at 05:27 PM