Ideagen Global - Catalyze Magazine - December 2023
With Ideagen's extensive member network and influential platform, Catalyze Magazine serves as an aggregate for all the content, events, articles, and collaboration that we do. It is a monthly magazine where you will find transcriptions from Ideagen events, content, articles, and information surrounding how we are completing our mission. With this magazine, we want to highlight the nature of cross-sector collaboration and how we infuse it into our daily mission on a global scale. Ideagen's monthly Catalyze Magazine is back with our December edition. Inside, view conversations from the 2023 Global Goals Summit, hosted at the Nasdaq Global Headquarters in New York City! This months covers features speakers: Robert Gilpin, Chef Maria Loi, Rana Novack, Phyllis Ferrell, Kurt Shickman, Jonathan Parfrey, Jeff Terry, Sheri Hashemi, Elena Saviolakis, Marianthi Treppiedi, and Savas Tsivicos!
With Ideagen's extensive member network and influential platform, Catalyze Magazine serves as an aggregate for all the content, events, articles, and collaboration that we do. It is a monthly magazine where you will find transcriptions from Ideagen events, content, articles, and information surrounding how we are completing our mission. With this magazine, we want to highlight the nature of cross-sector collaboration and how we infuse it into our daily mission on a global scale.
Ideagen's monthly Catalyze Magazine is back with our December edition. Inside, view conversations from the 2023 Global Goals Summit, hosted at the Nasdaq Global Headquarters in New York City!
This months covers features speakers: Robert Gilpin, Chef Maria Loi, Rana Novack, Phyllis Ferrell, Kurt Shickman, Jonathan Parfrey, Jeff Terry, Sheri Hashemi, Elena Saviolakis, Marianthi Treppiedi, and Savas Tsivicos!
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What do you do with an Idea?<br />
Rana: Here are some of the things that I've learned in my journey. Number one is about<br />
daydreaming. I recently learned, and think it is so fascinating, that they did a study and<br />
found that daydreaming enhances performance. Daydreaming is often associated with the<br />
default network in our brains and the lower-level functioning parts of our brains. It was<br />
thought that it was sort of one or another; you're either engaging the lower-level parts of<br />
your brain or the higher-level parts of your brain, which are associated with complex<br />
problem-solving. But what they found is that when you're activating the lower-level parts,<br />
when you're in that sort of self-hypnosis, and your mind is in a relaxed state, you're<br />
activating the complex problem-solving. That's what we can attribute things like an "Aha"<br />
moment or a "Eureka" moment to.<br />
Now, the inner child daydreaming part of me is still there. She still exists, and I make sure<br />
that I have time to let my mind wander whenever I'm trying to figure something out because<br />
often, the harder I try to figure something out, and the more I think about it, the harder it<br />
is. Something I refer to as mental quicksand. I stop, I go for a run, or do something to let<br />
my mind just relax, and I will always have some sort of clarity on the other side of that.<br />
That's the first thing; I deliberately dream.<br />
The second thing is about diversity. I learned about diversity and innovation, and<br />
inadvertently, I learned something about my own self-worth. For quite a long time, and<br />
sometimes even now, I felt very inadequate because I'm not a data scientist, I'm not an<br />
immigration lawyer, I'm not a researcher, I'm none of these things. However, it occurred to<br />
me that the only reason I was able to see things in a particular way, the only reason I was<br />
able to recognize the gap that I did and how we could fix it, is precisely for that reason. I<br />
don't have to be all of those things to have value. I try to keep that in mind when imposter<br />
syndrome kicks in.<br />
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