To take a journey through several companies is one old dream of mine. The last few days, I noted down several ideas on turning this project into a multi-side win:win situation.
However, performing this journey..this project, embedding that journey, might be nothing less but fulfilling a prophecy my geeration was confronted with in childhood days – and, as I am after getting free of these shadows and demons, I think it might be wrong to yield the prophecy by doing the journey at all.
The prophecy was: “One day everyone of you, you will have to and go to work, doing boring tasks, task you won’t, don’t like to do. But you will do it, just because you have to. There’s no way out, no way of getting around of this.”
But I am believing – whatever they say, there is an alternative to this, nevertheless.
So, I doubt it would be right to follow this track.
However, I recognized how I became creative in planning to make this project accomplishable. I asked myself, what dream might be worth to actually be done – and I came up with MOM. Unfortunately, my interest in that, until now, was research primarily, not creating any multi-sided win:win situations using MOM. So, I didn’t go creative so far.
But I had some ideas what to do creatively alternatively:
- Commuting in the train, take a book from a co-commuter, give them one of mine, ask them to read a page… or do this with a group of co-commuters, swapping books with each other. – I don’t yet have any idea how to put the fun into that, but there might be some, and at least that’d give a lot of subjects to talk about. So, everyone involved might learn to know about some (then ex-)strangers’ interests. – We might improve this by reading the stuff aloud, and only a paragraph or two, so everyone immediately would learn something about the others of the group.
- I might want to learn about the dozens of city districts – either of the big city nearby or where I work. I could advertise and ask for someone who knows somewhere deeply involved in that destrict – an district native one, for example. I’d take an hour for an express sight-seeing tour with them. Getting a chance to learn about the city, its districts and their inhabitants very well. Also, I’d meet some strangers, so the city might become less strange to me and more familiarly, as I go on with this process/project. In the end, all the strangers I met in the meantime and me, we could have a party – although until now, I don’t have the least idea where to party and how to finance that, but maybe someone will have an idea i nthe meantime. This would be a win for them – to be involved in this project, to meet the others involved, to meet me, to show me around, to learn a bit more about their destrict. – This also would be a benefit for me, as I’ll become more familiar with the city, and I learn to know about people. .. Maybe, it might be an idea to have a cooking party with one of the city guides at the end of each week, so I could network already while still in the middle of the ongoing project. – And a third benefit it could bear if I’d blog about it – it’d entertain the audience and might gain us – everyone taking live part in the project – some ideas how to improve the experience.
- And what I thought about too, was to join to people waiting somewhere, e.g. for a bus, and then blind-date them, pretending to been waiting for a blind-date match and I’d think they were them…. probably not that much fun at all, plus it’d demand a lot of courage to really pretend that, without the least hint on that it’s being fake.
But the city guide project, I might want to perform. – And it might already be about time to schedule the first meetings, as not everyone might instantly know someone who’s entrenched to their certain district – and willing to ‘play’ city guide and join performing the project.
Their win of taking part could be improved by networking them, bringing them in touch with people who match them – or non-matches, but at least people to meet who they might want to find out semselves whether they’re matches or not.