@daverendall
What makes us weirdalso makes us wonderful.
What makes us weakalso makes us strong.
Deviance will always generate external pressures to conform.
If you perform beyond the norms, the systems will adjust and try to make you normal.
Robert Quinn, Deep Change
AWAKENINGeverything we’ve learned about weakness is wrong
Excellence is a form of deviance.
The way to achieve and maintainexcellence is to deviate from the norm.
You become excellent because you are doing things that normal people do not want to do.
Robert Quinn, Deep Change
What makes us weirdalso makes us wonderful.
What makes us weakalso makes us strong.
- Eleventh biggest US city- Third fastest growing US city- Best city for jobs- Best city for growing businesses
- #3 travel hotspot in 2014
- Top ten best places to retire - Second greenest city in the world
- Most bike-friendly city in the US
- Second most liked city in the US
- New Freak Capital of the US- Top ten places to reinvent your life- Top ten most beautiful places in the US
- Top 25 best places for business & careers
What makes places weirdalso makes them wonderful.
AWARENESSweaknesses are clues to our strengths
Canada – Maple Syrup & Asteroid Impacts Australia – Deadly Animals & MelanomaChina – CO2 Emissions & Renewable EnergyGreenland – Personal SpaceRussia – Raspberries and Nuclear WarheadsNetherlands – Tall PeopleNew Zealand – Sheep & RugbyUSA – Lawnmower Deaths & Nobel Laureates
We are led to truth by our weaknesses
as well as our strengths.PARKER PALMER, Let Your Life Speak
ACCEPTANCEweaknesses are strengths in disguise
Easy Going . . . . IrresponsibleAdventurous . . . . DangerousSpontaneous . . . . Impulsive
Structured . . . . InflexibleResponsible . . . . ControllingCautious . . . . Fearful
strength AND weakness
Strong people always have strong weaknesses too. Where there are peaks,
there are valleys.Peter Drucker
HurricanesTornadoes
FloodsMudslidesBlizzards
AvalanchesDrought
MonsoonsDust Storms
Wildfires
APPRECIATIONwe succeed because of our
weaknessesnot in spite of them
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
George Eliot
Strangely, I think my dyslexia has helped.
Richard Branson
AMPLIFICATIONexaggerate weaknesses
instead of eliminating them
There is no great genius without a touch of madness.
Seneca
If you can’t fix it, feature it.
Gerald Weinberg, Secrets of Consulting
how could you AMPLIFY
your weaknesses?
ALIGNMENTdon’t try to fit infind the right fit
how could you FIND THE RIGHT FIT?
AVOIDANCEto be the best (at some things)
we have to be the worst (at other things)
what should you STOP DOING?
AFFILIATIONpartner with people
who are strong where you are weak
who is STRONG where you are WEAK?
What makes places weirdalso makes them wonderful.
What makes places weakalso makes them strong.
- The best place to live in Canada
(2013)
- 5th best place to live in the world
- World’s cleanest city
- 9th of the top 10 travel hotspots in
2014
- Extremely low unemployment (Alberta)
- 10th best Canadian city for zombie
apocalypse
- 8th best place to live in Canada
- St. Albert is the best place to live in
Canada
- One of Canada’s sunniest cities
- Largest living history museum in
Canada
- Biggest mall in North America
- 3rd best Canadian city for zombie
apocalypse
- 16th worst traffic in North America
(Calgary)
- 23rd worst traffic in North America
(Edmonton)
- Higher than average violent crime
(Edmonton)
- Labor shortages (Alberta)
- Dependence on oil & gas (Alberta)
Peaceful . . . . BoringLively . . . . ChaoticOpen . . . . SprawlDense . . . . CrowdedHistoric . . . .OutdatedCutting-Edge . . . .Unproven
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the tower has been the object of very special attention.
It is important to keep the current tilt, due to the vital role that this element played in promoting the tourism industry of Pisa.
Dav!d Rendall drendall.com