Taking a Journey of Passion
Iggy Pintado
Connector. Inspiring People to Realise Value and Productivity through Technology
I love stories. Stories inspire us, they rejuvenate us, they move us to change and take action. Most of all, they connect us. The stories of our own lives define us and allow us to engage others, creating lasting friendships.
What’s wonderful about stories is they are usually the destination you arrive at after a journey of passion. You cannot truly drive inspiration in information, or motivate people to take action, without a passionate story.
Importantly stories connect us. It also teaches us. Surprisingly when we are open to learning we do so best through the medium of story. When we are open to story we are entertained, and we also learn because each story has a lesson.
In the broadest sense of the word, when we learn through story, we also stay connected. Connected to history, culture, world events, new thinking, ideation, cultural shifts and passion. I encourage you to be passionate, to fill your life with stories. To learn.
How can you today, change how you communicate to story? Tell me in the comments box below your best dinner party story that usually tell that always gets a great reaction. Let’s start a bank here of fantastic stories!
Enabling transport electrification
3 年I arrived in Moscow late one snowy night in October 1993, barely a week after the 10-day coup during which Boris Yeltsin overthrew members of a resistance movement that resulted in 147 deaths and the so-called Russian White House being blackened by fire caused by tank shelling. As one of a group of 40 international students, we walked through empty streets from our hotel to Red Square blanketed in a thick layer of snow. After walking past Lenin’s mausoleum to the southern end of the square, we stopped near the Kremlin gate for a group photo with St Basil’s Cathedral as our backdrop. Before long a snow fight broke out within our group - a frosty battle between Australians, Canadians and Americans. Moments later, our group began to be hit from behind by snowballs launched from the Kremlin gate.?Turning, we were amazed to see two uniformed Red Army soldiers, clad in grey woolen jackets and rabbit skin hats hurling snowballs toward us. Now unified against a common and new-found enemy, our group of Western allies turned and directed fire at our Russian adversaries with all the snowballs we could muster. The Cold War was back on!!