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Hi everyone. Welcome to the 5 Minutes Podcast. Today I'd like just to make a reflection about the article I wrote for my newsletter last week about The Burning Man, and I received an amazing feedback and I'm super happy for that and I was extremely happy of having the chance to write it. But the one thing that is important, that article was not about The Burning Man, I was not looking to talk about, okay, people should go on that or not. But it was a journey of self-discovery. Most of the time. Most of the people I know, they are confined to a box of knowledge and beliefs, including myself. And it's very hard for us to become more creative and to see more, I would say, disruptive insights if we do not see that the word goes above and beyond the borders of what we know. So when my dear friend Manuel started talking to me about The Burning Man a couple of years ago, I was fascinated about that. And I said, Look how this could happen. And then I decided to experiment that. And first, I'm not a big fan of electronic music, so I was not going there for the music. I was not going there because I love desert or because I don't like to take shower. That was going there to experiment and to give the opportunity to my brain, to my heart, to my cognitive system, to experiment something that is completely out of my comfort zone.
And this is what brought me to spend ten days there and what I was looking for. There are different ways. For example, how is to be a week without internet, without phone? How is to be a week without using money for any reason because nothing is paid there? What is to be using a bike to move and understand that a bike is much more than two wheels. You know a handler for you to move? No, it was a mechanism of self-expression. The bike is like your identity or who you are. So you see so many creative bikes and I'm talking about 50, 60, 70,000 bikes. I'm not talking about 20. I'm talking about a notion of bikes. I'm talking about the way the society organize itself. It's almost like self-organized about the concept of sustainability, about the opportunity to talk to people with an absolutely different background. And all of this helped me to understand, even today, that I'm back, I would say to inside my box I see things differently because I had the chance to understand that people have different feelings about different threats. When I see a threat like the rain, they didn't. And this applies to my project because many times I don't see a threat. But another stakeholder sees a massive threat. And this is exactly what I was looking for.
And please, with this podcast and the newsletter, I'm not telling you, Oh, you should buy your ticket and go to the Burning Man next year. Okay, Not at all. Burning Man is not for everybody. And maybe it's good for you. Maybe it's not. Maybe you will go and you will just hate and have a complete different feeling that I had. But you need to find your burning man. You need to find ways of exploring because most of the time we are very comfortable about talking to people that believe on the same core beliefs that I believe. To talk to people that just reinforce our own bias. But we are not very comfortable about talking to people that are very different from us. And this is what blocks us to see things differently. This is why, for example, I love talking about politics with people that think differently and I don't want to talk to them just because I want to offend them. No, let's agree on disagreeing. Let's agree that we don't agree on that. I love talking most of my friends, my big friends, they are not on the project management field. They are not pmps. They are not certified, they are not Scrum Master. They work in different fields. And all of this helped me a lot to see things differently. So this is what I want to invite. You just go out of this traditional box because this will make you, of course, a better human being.
But technically, and this is the aim of this podcast, a much better project management. This is why, for example, I did this five years at the UN. What I was looking there, I was looking for a different dimension of my work, Burning Man the same and maybe next year, I will do something different. And why? It's not because I want to live in the Burning Man forever. Not at all. I think the time I spent there is more than enough. Now I love hot water and I love the comfort of my house and I love to dress, I would say jeans and a black shirt. I love that. But that experience was extremely worth for me to understand the different dimensions. This is why when we see someone creating a disruptive innovation or a disruptive idea, they usually think always out of the box and this is exactly what we need. So if you have not read the newsletter, it's available on LinkedIn on my website also. So just take a look if you like. You can share. If you don't like, just delete it. Okay, so I hope you enjoyed this podcast think because these are very critical and serious topics for us to share. So thank you very much and I'm looking forward to see you next week with another five Minutes podcast.
Hi everyone. Welcome to the 5 Minutes Podcast. Today I'd like just to make a reflection about the article I wrote for my newsletter last week about The Burning Man, and I received an amazing feedback and I'm super happy for that and I was extremely happy of having the chance to write it. But the one thing that is important, that article was not about The Burning Man, I was not looking to talk about, okay, people should go on that or not. But it was a journey of self-discovery. Most of the time. Most of the people I know, they are confined to a box of knowledge and beliefs, including myself. And it's very hard for us to become more creative and to see more, I would say, disruptive insights if we do not see that the word goes above and beyond the borders of what we know. So when my dear friend Manuel started talking to me about The Burning Man a couple of years ago, I was fascinated about that. And I said, Look how this could happen. And then I decided to experiment that. And first, I'm not a big fan of electronic music, so I was not going there for the music. I was not going there because I love desert or because I don't like to take shower. That was going there to experiment and to give the opportunity to my brain, to my heart, to my cognitive system, to experiment something that is completely out of my comfort zone.
And this is what brought me to spend ten days there and what I was looking for. There are different ways. For example, how is to be a week without internet, without phone? How is to be a week without using money for any reason because nothing is paid there? What is to be using a bike to move and understand that a bike is much more than two wheels. You know a handler for you to move? No, it was a mechanism of self-expression. The bike is like your identity or who you are. So you see so many creative bikes and I'm talking about 50, 60, 70,000 bikes. I'm not talking about 20. I'm talking about a notion of bikes. I'm talking about the way the society organize itself. It's almost like self-organized about the concept of sustainability, about the opportunity to talk to people with an absolutely different background. And all of this helped me to understand, even today, that I'm back, I would say to inside my box I see things differently because I had the chance to understand that people have different feelings about different threats. When I see a threat like the rain, they didn't. And this applies to my project because many times I don't see a threat. But another stakeholder sees a massive threat. And this is exactly what I was looking for.
And please, with this podcast and the newsletter, I'm not telling you, Oh, you should buy your ticket and go to the Burning Man next year. Okay, Not at all. Burning Man is not for everybody. And maybe it's good for you. Maybe it's not. Maybe you will go and you will just hate and have a complete different feeling that I had. But you need to find your burning man. You need to find ways of exploring because most of the time we are very comfortable about talking to people that believe on the same core beliefs that I believe. To talk to people that just reinforce our own bias. But we are not very comfortable about talking to people that are very different from us. And this is what blocks us to see things differently. This is why, for example, I love talking about politics with people that think differently and I don't want to talk to them just because I want to offend them. No, let's agree on disagreeing. Let's agree that we don't agree on that. I love talking most of my friends, my big friends, they are not on the project management field. They are not pmps. They are not certified, they are not Scrum Master. They work in different fields. And all of this helped me a lot to see things differently. So this is what I want to invite. You just go out of this traditional box because this will make you, of course, a better human being.
But technically, and this is the aim of this podcast, a much better project management. This is why, for example, I did this five years at the UN. What I was looking there, I was looking for a different dimension of my work, Burning Man the same and maybe next year, I will do something different. And why? It's not because I want to live in the Burning Man forever. Not at all. I think the time I spent there is more than enough. Now I love hot water and I love the comfort of my house and I love to dress, I would say jeans and a black shirt. I love that. But that experience was extremely worth for me to understand the different dimensions. This is why when we see someone creating a disruptive innovation or a disruptive idea, they usually think always out of the box and this is exactly what we need. So if you have not read the newsletter, it's available on LinkedIn on my website also. So just take a look if you like. You can share. If you don't like, just delete it. Okay, so I hope you enjoyed this podcast think because these are very critical and serious topics for us to share. So thank you very much and I'm looking forward to see you next week with another five Minutes podcast.
