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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W H A T D O Y O U D O W I T H A N I D E A ?<br />
Rana: Number three, I learned to trust my future self, and here's what I mean by that. I recently gave<br />
a talk in Rome, and I had to explain the concept of hindsight being 2020 because that's not a phrase<br />
that's common there. I explain that sometimes, you can only see things clearly by looking backward.<br />
At the time, I couldn't see how communications, refugees, technology, humanitarian policy, or any<br />
of those things were connected. Now, it makes sense. If I have a moment where I don't understand<br />
how things are connected or something just doesn't make sense to me quite yet, I try to keep patience<br />
in mind. Just wait longer; It'll make sense later, even if it doesn't right now.<br />
Lastly, I learned about the difference between barriers and what I call "What now" moments. A<br />
barrier is something that feels like a failure at the moment or some sort of challenge, but in reality,<br />
it's actually a growing pain. Any time I encountered a barrier, it made me think harder. It made me<br />
work harder. It made the idea and the solution stronger on the other side. I think of it more like a<br />
wall where you can see a path forward; you just have to figure out how to get to the other side.<br />
A "What now?" moment is more like a black hole. You can't see a way forward, and you're not sure<br />
that a path exists. It's much more of a dark, hopeless kind of place. You're not afraid of<br />
embarrassment or failure because whatever it is you are afraid of has probably already happened. I<br />
learned that there's only one thing that needs to happen when you're in this moment; there's only one<br />
way to get out of it, and I'd like to share a quote that I absolutely love. "Sometimes, when you're in a<br />
dark place, you think you've been buried, but you've actually been planted." That's Christine Caine.<br />
So when you're in this moment, the only thing you have to do is make a choice: Are you buried, or<br />
are you planted? And maybe what's been planted is the seed of a great idea.<br />
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