3 Takeaways from a Global Gathering of Leaders

These insights might surprise you. Last week sixty-five men and women gathered at Moss Collective to listen to a Danish neuroscientist talk about adult development for ninety minutes. 

The energy in the room was palpable. 

The audience included doctors, photographers, actors, business owners, financial advisors, elite military service personnel, and anything else you can imagine. Nonetheless, here’s what I found surprising:

1. CURIOSITY IS KING!

I think about the kinds of folks who never would have come. When I run the mental exercise of a closed minded individual that maybe lacks the curiosity to attend something they don’t fully understand, I see a trait that could only hold someone back. Conversely, all of those who attended with such diverse backgrounds likely benefit in their day-to-day life from the part of them that let them sign up for a cryptic Saturday afternoon. 

1. “IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME.”

This isn’t business advice. It’s human connection advice. Set the constraints for incredible connection and people will come because we need it! Pick the time and the place and invite the people – it is important to human existence. 

1. THE GOAL IS TO INCREASE CONSCIOUSNESS TO YOUR UNCONSCIOUS.

Our guest speaker, Johan Traekjaer, spoke about physiological and psychological operating systems that are running our perceptions and decision making. Before you’re aware of them, they run you. Once you become aware of them, you can have more agency over your experience and behavior. Adult development, then, is largely making more of your subjective experience objective. 

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