Making a difference? ... some inspiration
Sometimes I feel that nothing I do can make a difference. Why bother! Chatting with David Boud, when he first arrived at SCEPTrE to work with us on the Immersive Experience conference, I was attempting to dump these feelings of helplessness on him - being a bit of a whinge-bag, I'm afraid. Paraphrasing, he said words to the effect that, 'There will always be those sorts of conditions and those barriers. Just do what you CAN do.' Please add your own encouragements and thoughts about the difference we (with commitment) can make.
Jo Tait
" Until one is committed, there is hesitating, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans. That the moment one definitely commits oneself, Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help on that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way."
Goethe (1749-1832) from Lazy way to success
"Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. It's the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead
I think we often never know about the impact we have made ... which sometimes can just be a phrase like "keep it meaningful and manageable". This was said by a consultant just before Xmas to our engineering faculty over a Hong Kong higher education initiative to embed outcomes-bases education. I think that phrase did more to get people moving forward positively than a lot of other things in the past 12 months! We often never know the subtleties and depth of the impact we can have/have had from even ther smallest of things. Look at the connections you have created Jo from SCEPTre's work and keep heart!
Nick Noakes
[Work as a cliff-edge] - a frontier where passion, belonging and need call for our presence, our powers, and our absolute commitment. ... It is astonishing how much of our everyday work has powerful life-or-death consequences: the firefighter on the fragile roof, the policeman on the street, the electrical engineer bringing power back to a darkened neighborhood. The teacher curses his way to school and then says exactly the right thing at the right time to the vulnerable, listening adolescent. All good work should have an edge of life and death to it, if not immediately apparent, then to be found by ardently exploring its greater context. Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.
David Whyte Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity
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