Shining Eyes

The following presentation by Benjamin Zander was produced at a big conference on vision, leadership and innovation. It is meant to dazzle and inspire. I believe it does. It is a presentation that speaks to us on many levels and I believe that some of the most important thoughts in the presentation are not stated in words. What does it mean in my community?

I've had some challenging conversations this week, that confirmed to me that our human condition is still inherently one of alienation. Like the illustration in the video we often become lost in the details. We tend to narrow our vision to look at what we can see now. We want to change the quality of our lives incrementally from one percentage point to the next. This causes great agony and suffering and like the illustration of the 10 year old in the video, we often face the impulse to give up.

I'm not convinced that it is easy to escape this reality of our lives. And yet the presenter has again inspired me with the hope that there is something more to how we experience life right now. This is something that we would do well to search for and try to capture, even if only fleetingly from time to time.