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Paula Cristobal's avatar

great piece! The path unfolds as we walk it! It is easy to forget when we feel blocked... the first step is often the hardest, yet the one that unlocks thenext ones!

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Jeroen van Geel's avatar

Thank you! It’s all about taking the leap. Just do it.

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Sara watson's avatar

This is so interesting and has inspired me to think differently about the way I think daily and the decisions made based on conditioning and repetition in everyday life.

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Jeroen van Geel's avatar

Thank you for your comment! It’s interesting how deeply conditioning shapes even the smallest choices. Once you start noticing, it’s hard to stop… and that’s where things get interesting.

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Antonio Iturra's avatar

Wonderful! Love where you took this. Stories for me are important so I thank you for shedding a light on that.

Looking forward to our conversation!

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Antonio Iturra's avatar

Such a great and original post!

It makes me remember about Rennaisance and those hyper curious and generalist people, that pretty much delved into any science or discipline and designed solutions not using much methods per se as we did today.

I carry my notebook every day and every time, and sometimes I come up with stuff. A recent one I remembered is that there should be a School for Window Washers. Here in Chile, they tend to look menacingly and not very professional. Think if those washers had a shirt, were clean shaven and did excellent work for your car.

Love this post and will share it, we need to share a much more freer curiosity, not one instantly related to our skills or even traditional solutions, but totally open to what comes our way. Our perspective is what makes it personal and precious!

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Jeroen van Geel's avatar

Thank you so much. I love your connection to the Renaissance mindset, and the way you're catching ideas on the move. The School for Window Washers made me pause too. At first, I thought about presentation, professionalism. But then it hit me... let's turn it around: maybe the more interesting question isn’t how they look, but how they’re seen.

What if we treated them not just as workers at the edge of our vision, but as people with stories, histories, perspectives of their own?

What if someone made a portrait series (A Window to a Story?) where each image told something about their life, their view, their world?

Maybe it shouldn't be a school for them, but a lens for us. Or a conversation.

Thank you for sparking that line of thought.

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