Here’s an article by Dave Itzkoff called “Matthew McConaughey Wrote the Book on Matthew McConaughey” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/books/matthew-mcconaughey-memoir-greenlights.html (2,500 words) [NY Times, 14-Oct-2020]
In the article McConaughey, through Itzkoff, discusses “certain universal and teachable truths”. These truths are learnings from a life of experiences faced into and welcomed. He is at the same time eager and weary, being in the moment with an air of easiness. His is a life of “continuously updating and testing my philosophies, almost daily… there’s humanity in that reality”. A life of continuous incremental improvement, where the boundaries of the road is a guide to an efficient way through the landscape of his life. For us, this is part of continuous improvement, relentlessly delivering product and listening to our customer.
Some things to consider:
Improving on what is there. It always starts from something.
Running toward the future . Continuous refinement.
Experiencing humanity. Weary and welcoming at the same time.
What is your squad doing? What are you updating? Where are you in the moment?
How does this thinking apply to you in your Tribe / Support Function? What are you starting from? What experience do you bring to your work? How do you agree what to drop? Where is your customer checkpoint?
Why is this important? Good question. We all have a view of the truth of our lives. Each of these truths come together to form the world we live in. They are both comfortable and uncomfortable. When a truth sticks, even when it does not serve a person or community then we cease to improve. Our refinement becomes narrow and isolating. A lever to un-stick this truth is choosing to experience humanity and improving on what is there. Moving us to a place where we re-engage, in the moment and continuing to write our lives.
For further viewing / reading:
2015 Commencement Speech (13 truths), Matthew McConaughey, https://youtube.com/watch?v=BmCTQ_mkzHU (46:25) [University of Houston, 7-Jan-2016]
Post-truth: Word of the Year 2016, https://languages.oup.com/word-of-the-year/2016 (475 words) [Oxford University Press, retrieved 21-Oct-2020]
Whakapapa – genealogy, Rāwiri Taonui, https://admin.teara.govt.nz/en/whakapapa-genealogy/print (11 minute read) [Te Ara, The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, 1-Jul-2015]
Inviting you to have a view / read and to have a chat with me about your thoughts.
[Originally posted internally in my role in IS Governance at The Warehouse Group.]