Prototype Yourself

What do you expect from life? What do you expect from yourself? When is it expectation setting because you feel passionate about it and believe in it and when do you build up these expectations in your head because you think society would appreciate this behaviour and when is it actually an outside set expectation? How many things in your life are duties and how many things do you do because they fulfilled you? This challenge will help you t find out how to distinguish different types of expectations and which ones you really need to fulfil and take action on now.

This episode is not about words, pictures or seeing reason, it's about the ability of not to think, explain and make sense. Instead we will give our powerful emotional brain the chance to be active, to feel, be present and to let go of control. We will define love without words and learn what it means to feel memories, experiences and finally love for yourself and for others. This challenge is quite tough because the goal is not to get out of your comfort zone and take an outside-in perspective, the goal is to connect with a part of yourself that you cannot control and demand to do what you want. But if you can give your emotional brain the time and space to be active, your logical brain can rest, recharge its batteries and then take you on that journey what I call "to find out who we are".

Understand how daily questions - and especially active questions can be used to increase individual effectiveness and build engagement. We tend to blame the environment when we don't feel engaged, but we are part of the equation and the only ones who can be proactively changing our own behaviour. Because 99% of problems don't come from the outside. The arise from the inside.

What you need is courage, humility and discipline because holding up a mirror to yourself is not easy. Because you can't blame the person who wrote the question.

The crazy thing is that we would rather do the wrong things right than the right things wrong. Which is exactly the opposite of having the growth mindset.· Adding a fun factor and some playfulness to an otherwise serious situation can lift the quality of both life and work situations. This episode helps you to take different roles when you are in a decision-making situation, without having only one right and wrong path, but multiple perspectives which you can all try out. Because in each of your decisions you can play a new role.

Being a prototype means you need to be your own minimal loveable product. You are your product and you are your product. This is a huge challenge because you need to satisfy your own expectations. Never possible. But the first step towards accepting this feeling of never being complete or perfect is to know yourself. Self-awareness and how others perceive us is therefor the first challenge we will go through in the next two weeks.

A short introduction to the reason of why I started this podcast, what we will do throughout the next episodes and the are of prototyping. Music provided by APL Publishing.