I mentioned before that Dave Gray’s announcement of his School of the Possible back in April 2018 (originally on Medium but now on Substack), particularly his Episode Five instalment, sparked another stage of psychological development for me (i.e. Integrating stage), whereby I started integrating aspects of myself that I previously had marginalized, particularly my gaming background.
Below are some noticeable posts prior to this date that kind of laid the foundation for this spark to take hold and ignite within me into a larger, passionate fire.
These are posts I wrote after I left Google+ but before reading Dave Gray’s Episode Five that spark a process of integration of my separate selves.
2015
- Understanding the “Relationship” Between Creativity & Social Innovation
- Working At Living
- Creativity Is Seeing New Things
Today I realize that what I want is to integrate my life.
Nollind Whachell
Working At Living
2016
- The Individual as a Complex System
- Feeling Ripped Apart
- Struggling to Overcome Complex Judgement
- Shifting & Aligning to 21st Century Work
- Embracing Your Shadow Self
- Creativity as Random Growth
- Reflections: GamesBeat 2016 Creativity & Diversity Panel
- The River of Change
One of the key things I’m discovering on my journey is that to transform and integrate ourselves, we have to not only accept that we have a shadow self within ourselves but to openly embrace it.
Nollind Whachell
Embracing Your Shadow Self
2018
This is simply to say that for innovation we need diversity of group, which includes the “group” inside each of us. We must each foster our own internal collective.
Beau Lotto