Daniel Priestley

You reflect on what's going on.

You try and zoom out to the bigger picture.

You do some journaling and you do some dot connecting where you say, what are some of the dots that have happened in the last five years?

What are some of the bigger picture impacts that I've made?

What are some of the problems that I've struggled with?

What if this was possible?

What if that was possible?

We live in this incredible fast-paced world where the one thing that no one allows themselves to do is to pause, reflect, document with a pen and paper.

And those people who I know who are doing incredibly well are doing more and more of this.

Which means you were up late thinking.

Yeah.

You were thinking clearly, and that was what you were really doing.

A great question I want people to reflect on, I want them to think about the last five years and ask the question, when did I do something special?

that impacted a certain type of person, I can explain how I did it step by step and how it felt, and it would be of interest to plenty of people, all right?

And that question contains what we talked about earlier, which is lived experience, feelings, playbooks,

and connecting the dots looking backwards and actually coming up with some things that only I can do, things that only I can say.

So that particular prompt, that particular question to sit in nature and think clearly and memo and document and write a memo about it, you know, I see so many people, and you and I have done this over the last couple of hours, we think so much about the future and the uncertainty of the future, but a lot of value comes from just looking backwards and connecting the dots.

And then thinking, what is it that I now know that I want to take forward and add value to others?

He stumbled into a calligraphy class at university and loved calligraphy.

And he was the first company to ever have fonts.