SIT #332-2026 Mar 24 – Shells Mix it Up Awww

Office Day.  Today the DC was all about outgrowing the shell that you created.  Like a lobster, the shell you live in, that protects you, gives you security and comfort gets outgrown.  Where you are pushed up against it but don’t bust out of it because of all the things it offers.  This practice puts you in the headspace that allows you to look at that shell and visualize the benefits of outgrowing your shell; without consequence and with the perspective of growth in mind.  The DT today was about being aware of your surroundings and the incredible things going on around us in the environment that we mostly don’t take in.  For instance stopping at a giant hemlock tree 100′ tall.  Looking at it.  Taking the time to look at it and appreciate that it is there and what it’s gone through and how present it is right now.  The massive weight of that realization of how amazing something like that is, being hundreds of years tall and starting at nothing, is incredible.  It gives you mind a piece of wonderment while calming your thoughts from distractions.  It grows your gratitude muscles.  I like this practice.  The DJ was all about mixing it up and communicating with groups outside your own.  Talking to people of completely different circles in life about their life and your life.  There is a building at MIT called building 20 and it was built to be temporary and to house the growing populus after the war.  It became permanent.  It also became the catalyst for innovation because it was so poorly designed.  The poor design led to mass confusion inside and led to the interaction between occupants who would have never interacted unless this mess was causing it.  They were people of different disciplines and social circles with differing expertise.  However, the interactions gave people perspectives that they wouldn’t normally receive and because so, innovation blossomed.  Google and Facebook incorporate this idea now in to all their buildings; a structure that supports and pushes for mixing of minds.