Dear Reader,

Not good. Enough. Yet.

This is how I’ve felt over the past few weeks — in exactly this sequence.

First came the sting: not good. The voice in my head doesn’t whisper, it shouts. Tells me I’ll never be an author. Not a real one. I’m pretending, lacking integrity, originality. Just another hobby.

Then I breathe. Just long enough to revise it: not good enough.

Still harsh, but now it’s mine. My standards. My impossible inner ruler that only measures backwards, never forward.

And then — only after sitting with that for a while — comes the final word: yet.

Not good enough yet. A softening. A reminder. A choice.

I know this is the part I’ll look back on. When the book is nearly finished, I’ll surely feel a wave of nostalgia for these messy, doubt-ridden, emotionally exhausting days.

But let’s be honest. I’m not there. yet.

And because I’ve learned the hard way that we don’t have to suffer alone, I came to decide that I am not doing this part alone either.

Although I have an accountability buddy and my partner has been my emotional ballast and strategic compass, both haven't seen a written page. yet.

So today, I signed with a book writing coach.

Because there are people who’ve walked this path before. Who know what it feels like to doubt and still keep going. And right now, I need that kind of help. The kind that’s not ChatGPT (no offence, dear assistant).

By the end of the year, I know this will be the investment I’m most grateful for.

Today? It’s still just one word at a time.

🎙 Meanwhile, on the podcast…

When you think of an intelligent person, who do you imagine? Perhaps they’re scholarly, quick-thinking, or possess a rare ability to seemingly know all that there is to know.

But intelligence is infinitely more than this! As Daniel Susser teaches us this week, intelligence is greater than the sum of our cognitive parts: it is bodily, inter-connected and contextual. It is a tapestry of inherited, micro influences that makes us each see the macro world in different ways.

So if intelligence is collective, how can leaders unlock it from the organisational organism? Daniel shares all in this fascinating, wordly conversation that dances so beautifully between science, religion and ritual.

It will stretch your thinking and leave you with a whole host of practical tips to extract, celebrate and journey into the intelligence of your organisation!

Find out about:

• What it means to be an Intelligent Team - and how we can create them
• Why organisations must reject their implicit assumptions about what ‘intelligence’ means
• What macrocognition means in organisations
• Introducing organisational rituals for collaboration, belonging and shared purpose
• How leaders can identify imbalances in their organisations using opponent processing

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That’s it from my side! I hope you enjoy the content and find inspiration in the struggles we don’t have to go through alone. I’ll see you next week!

Myriam

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