Purpose Inspired Newsletter #8
Prof. Wayne Visser
World Top 10 Pracademic on Regenerative Business, Innovation & Technology | Professor at Catolica Porto Business School | Fellow at Cambridge University | Author of 40+ Books | Inspirational Speaker
PICTURE OF THE WEEK - #WAVES
POST OF THE WEEK - #FRIENDSCAPE
What does your friendship landscape look like? Is it a meadow with lots of flowers that blossom and die, yet bring colour and joy while they last? Or a forest of slow growth trees that change with the seasons but remain steadfast and loyal as they mature? Is it a vista of steep mountains with hardships overcome and breathtaking views from the summit? Or a fresh blue ocean with frolicking waves and fun in the sun? However it may look, let your friends know today that the landscape of your life is a better place with them in it.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK - #SHAPESHIFTING
“We must constantly shapeshift, liberating ourselves from the old form that defined and constrained us in the past”
Quote from: Beyond Reasonable Greed book
PODCAST OF THE WEEK - ROOTS AND SHOOTS
This episode, called Roots and Shoots - Empires in the Wilderness, sets the context for Season 4 and explores how the author's roots in Africa have shaped his career and perspectives on sustainable business. The episode includes the following sections: a child of Africa; growing up wild; only elephants should wear ivory; and the sixth mass extinction.
POEM OF THE WEEK - IN THE MARGINS
When the story of my life is writ / All the chapters set, the headings bold / You may miss the most important bit / For it’s in the margins life is told
?You may spot the notes in spidery hand / Crammed alongside work and daily grind / All the treasures of events unplanned / And creative doodles of the mind
?They may not connect to life’s main plot / Or the tidy order on display / They may be the things that time forgot / Or the flash of colour in the grey
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The main narrative may well be true / But it misses chaos, love and flair / It may chart the course on which I flew / Yet say nothing of my soul’s great dare
?All the times I detoured and got lost / Or indulged in poetry and art / When I gave and did not count the cost / Or glimpsed the whole beyond the parts
?When the story of my life is told / When the scribbling pen has come to rest / Just remember, as the tale unfolds / It’s in the margins that I lived the best
BOOK OF THE WEEK - LIFE IN TRANSIT
This creative collection brings together travel and tribute poems by Wayne Visser. The anthology pays tribute to the likes of Nelson Mandela, Maya Angelou, Barack Obama, Antoni Gaudí & Leonardo da Vinci, and reflects on travels ranging from China and South Africa to Ecuador and Russia. As the title poem puts it: Life is lived in the in-between, in transit between coming and going, between staying and moving on, between here and there and what we call home.
REFLECTION OF THE WEEK - #WILDNESS
We were all born to be wild and tricked into being tame
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