When you've got the luxury!

This is an important day. a learning curve comes to an end, a new loop is starting. and I am grateful and super excited.

In my line of business, words matter a lot. I talk to, with and at people. I convince them, consult and coach them, teach them, help them to make up their minds, challenge them, guide them, provoke them and all this is done without any tool, or a formal methodoloy, to be honest.

It seems I was born to do exactly this and nothing more. The older I'm getting, the more comfortable it gets. When I am asked a challenging question, where I need to knee down and design some complex approach to a problem, images, sounds and colours travel through my head and it all just appears. I am able to see everything in front of my eyes and modify it on the run, while listening and conversing with my clients, partners, students.. whomever I am dedicating myself to in that moment. I guess empathy and emotional intelligence are some of the key words.... but there is something more in there. something even more natural, more primitive, instinctive and yet sophesticated and clever.

The past 2,5 years of my professional life as the co-founder and CEO of Pi School was a blessing. Partnering with Marco Trombetti, was the best decision of my life. He is a true entrepreneur, a visionary and even though he is a nano-manager (micro is by far not detailed enough), working with him (if you have the stamina) is a school of life. For me as an educator, who seldom finds the time to be a proper student himself, co-founding Pi School toegther with Marco and running it has not only given me a superb platform to give birth to my vision, it also gave me the opportunity to add up to my set of skills. I know a lot more than two years ago!!!

The discovery I would like to share with you though is about a certain moment. Many of you would immediately understand it, and some of you who have been in the same company or same role for 10 years and more, would not really know what I am talking about. You might be able to imagine but not REALLY KNOW IT. How would one know something if they have not felt it on their own skin? so, no offence...

I got challenged! by my own students, expecting more from me. Everything I was doing was just going so well, that suddenly good was not good enough. Not by far... and I started to really UNDERSTAND what I thought I knew all the time. When you do what I do, there will be a moment where you realise, it is not about you, it is about the others. you have a responsibility. you are affecting the life of others, you are pushing them to jump! The word "purpose" re-defines itself. it becomes an inevitable face off. it does not let you go until you deal with it.

When you build something beautiful, it is always difficult to let go of it. it is difficult to leave your comfort zone, and if you are an education wizard, and use words like "dare", "fail fast and learn from it", "take risks", "be human", "become human again", "be agile", "have an active part in designing your life and what surrounds you" and and and.... there comes this flash of time where you (if you dare and don't hide yourself from yourself) demand clarity. You stay in front of this imaginary mirror and you look deep into your own eyes and then hear The Clash in your head, singing "should I stay or should I go" :-)

I can't explain how excited I am. The foundation of my work has re-defined itself. My last creative incubator program in Berlin made everything fall into the right place. Learning and Teaching is becoming the same thing! A repetitive loop what enables you to constantly re-write a different version of your present, by creatively examining your past, in order to have a new perspective for designing the future. Without Pi School, all of this would have not been happening to me.

And without Creative Incubator, there would have been no trigger!!!

THANK YOU EVERYONE!