Les Mottosky

While awareness can lead to guardedness if we direct it outside ourselves, it can also lead to connection if we turn it inward. Oftentimes, we discover the security we seek isn't something that can be found in the world.

Real leadership demands holding a mirror to complacency and inviting people into the friction that leads to fire. This creative tension is where new strength, strategy, vision and resolve emerge.

No matter how dire a situation feels, freedom is waiting for us to get the gumption to sit, notice and feel our difficult emotions.

Avoidance is our favourite pain strategy. It feels good. It feels like relief. It feels like comfort, but it's the worst strategy for our long term health. Avoidance of pain blunts our vitality.

Originality, perhaps, is not raw, brazen inventing from scratch. It’s more like a remix of reality into something nature didn’t quite try: a twist of absurdity, purpose, or rebellion.

There’s a lot of talk about waking up these days. A mass awakening leading to a collective leap in consciousness. The world is shaking, and it seems to be shaking people awake.

If one of the world's foremost industrial inventors is letting-off the innovation gas-pedal, what's the insight for today's leader?

Far as we know, humans are the only critter aware of — and able to limit, explore, or expand — its capacity. This awareness is the key to our superpower: adaptation.