(From the notes on my iPhoneX - as of 06/03/2014).
No, I don't mean to silence them.
I mean to make them talk so much, with so much truth, depth, freedom that at some point no more words are needed.
In my work the approach matters more than the method because it is the approach that creates the field, the context, the possibility… always starting from something as simple as it is rare: the ability to listen.
Not passive listening, nor technical listening.
I'm talking about active and human… radical listening. The kind that welcomes and amplifies.
The kind that doesn't immediately look for a solution but really stops at the meaning.
In a time when everyone wants to talk, explain, help, convince… amazement and wonder have become “an endangered species.” You see it too, right?
We run from one goal to another, from one piece of content to another, from one call to another… but when was the last time we truly felt moved by what we do?
Not for the result… but for the meaning.
We have gotten used to living in constant acceleration.
We run from one goal to another, from one piece of content to another, from one situation to another…
We tick off tasks, produce, react. Always in motion, always connected.
“You are in a wonderful country” is the slang that accompanies all communication in highway service stations. Yes, WONDER… that unique feeling that, by now, WE ONLY READ ON BILLBOARDS… and no longer in people's eyes.
But stop for a moment.
When was the last time you were moved not by the effect but by the truth inside what you were doing?
Maybe it's time to go back there.
To remember… and to truly tell your story.
When was the last time you felt a shiver for what you do?
When were you truly moved, not for the approval you received or the goal you achieved,
but for the deep meaning of your work?
That moment when you realized that your work wasn't just producing a result…
but was speaking about you, telling who you are… you were “putting the pieces in order”… you were “making memories.”
Because you were doing something that resembles you.
Because you were contributing to something that resonates within you.
I'm not talking about performance.
I'm talking about presence, about meaning… about “why.”
It's not the “wow” effect… it's the "Ah, finally I recognize myself" effect.
Like a dialect that returns to your mouth.
Like a scent that brings you home.
Like a poster stuck to a neighborhood wall “that speaks even to those who don't read.”
When what you do becomes what matters… you are feeling a true emotion, one that stays and leaves a mark.
Because it brings back amazement.
Because it awakens wonder.
And you start building again from here.
Because when a person feels truly seen, understood, listened to… then they speak.
They talk a lot, they talk until they no longer need words.
And there something rare, powerful, transformative happens.
There, yes… you have truly left everyone speechless.
