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Keith Ferrazzi: Who's Got Your Back: The Breakthrough Program to Build Deep, Trusting Relationships That Create Success--and Won't Let You Fail
Started to read this in the bookstore, and got hooked. The 1st business book I've read in probably 4 years.
Adyashanti: The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
Re-reading as I found my copy left behind at my Mom's. Really grok it much deeper than I did two years ago. Priceless if you think you are "struggling" in non-abiding awakening.
M. Scott Peck: The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace
Just started, but compelled by the model of moving from pseudo-community (where everyone is fake nice) to a true community where no one is trying to change anyone else; and collaboration truly flourishes.
Michael Scott: The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
Just checked out of library. Adore fantasy, fairy tales, and myth. And when the jacket said that Michael Scott was an authority on mythology and folklore, I was hooked. Plus I still have designs on writing my own mythic tale down soon.
Steven Johnson: Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
Really intrigued by the title. Fabulously diverse in examples. If you ever felt like a square in round world, this book will make you sing for joy because that's what life is about--growing, moving, evolving.... The book is much stronger for being in Science section and not restricted to business innovation alone.

"The Founding Fathers didn't believe in the future. They believed it in. You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem[?] . . . I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe a thing in, in love, in all else." - Robert Frost, from letter in The Robert Frost Reader: Poetry and Prose

Small group round table workshops on authoring and crystallizing unfettered, original personal legends and global epics into fruition, and "believing the future in."

SPRING 2014: Innovating to Your Heart's Delight 'Fruiting Vision' workshops held within the fertile The Valley of Heart's Delight -- the poetic name for the fruit-producing horizon upon horizon of orchards era of Santa Clara Valley that evolved into today's Silicon Valley, California.... "this near mythical garden became the place where anyone could pursue and achieve his or her heart's delight."

SUMMER 2014: May/June six-week program seeding and cultivating a vision with the soil of imagination and the waters of inspiration with base hub in Andalusia, Spain.

July/August six-week program seeding and cultivating a vision of the future geared for international, young at heart creators with a base hub in Silicon Valley, CA.

Recommended reading: The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho.

PEOPLE: Intentional cross-fertilization between "disaffected" youth, uncollegers, students, artists, entrepreneurs, jesters, chefs, journalists, monks, farmers, coders, wranglers, poets, engineers, and folks of all stripes.

"Ironically, the greatest economic value is created in transactions between people who are the most different from one another." - Victor Hwang, venture capitalist and author of The Rainforest: Creating the Next Silicon Valley

AD HOC SPACES & SALONS OF ART, GRACE, EXPERIMENTATION & INNOVATION: Blossoming of innovation spheres ala the collaborative, collegiate environment of the "fourth quadrant" ala WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson.

LOCATIONS:

Berkeley Botanical Gardens, Berkeley CA