Choosing to live in a world of pre-supposed rules, practices, and beliefs can be something that any one of us could go through a lifetime without questioning why we do what we do.
How do we even begin to challenge traditional norms, established social practices, and peer influence? If the goal is to live a fulfilling life, what does this mean if we are living through the pre-established prism of rules and norms established long before your arrival?
In many ways, we’re stuck living in a society that’s mindlessly running on autopilot, which lacks imagination towards collectively organizing the way we live our lives.
How do we begin to radically question and eventually even attack conventional rituals?
As Simon Sinek asserts in his book, Leaders Start with Why, we too should start with the same why? Why do we do what we do? And for what purpose? Can we challenge seemingly well-established paradigms and models and systems that have been built up around us like great walls designed to keep proverbial invaders out or to keep wisdom and light from penetrating those fortress walls.
So if we audaciously begin to question our societal or cultural practices, what would be revealed about how we live our lives and whether we are actually living at all?
In this TEDTalk, CEO Ricardo Semler asserts many bold challenges to established norms. In his company of thousands of employees, he and his team began questioning over two decades ago why do employees have to be in every morning at a set time and whether they even need to be present at all long before the work from home began trending. But if this ‘norm’ was not itself challenged, then we all would be like drones forced to work in offices and cubicles without the benefit of being allowed such freedom.
Is this humanity living or fulfilling its ultimate purpose or a true life fulfilled?
What societal or cultural practices to you think we are mindlessly living into and what ideas do you have on how we can re-imagine living better together while aligning our lifetimes towards our individuals, personal purposes in life?
Be bold. Think different.
