fear.less

October 13, 2011 in Uncategorized

I loved talking with Ishita Gupta. She called on a Saturday. We talked and laughed for a long time. I felt like I had known her before, but we had just met.

I’m exhausted by all the striving I see online. I don’t know where the line is drawn between striving to passionately say what you need to tell the world and striving to be cool or trend on Twitter.

What I take from death, along with how much I miss having the people in my life, is a sense of urgency. What do I do if this is the last year of my life? So my grief gives me a gift, it gives urgency to being really alive in the time that I have.

Her interview with me appears in fear.less today. I hope you'll enjoy reading it.

About Patti Digh

Patti Digh is an author, speaker, and educator who builds learning communities and gets to the heart of difficult topics. Her work over the last three decades has focused on diversity, inclusion, social justice, and living and working mindfully. She has developed diversity strategies and educational programming for major nonprofit and corporate organizations and has been a featured speaker at many national and international conferences.

5 comments to " fear.less "


Maureen

October 13, 2011 AT 1:31PM

Great post!

Mani

October 13, 2011 AT 5:01PM

I love this quote. My mother just died last week, and it is amazing to me how much my perspective has shifted. It has given a great sense of urgency towards things (mainly relationships) that I took for granted before, and things that used to seem urgent to me are no longer even registering on the priority radar.

Pam Hunter

October 14, 2011 AT 9:54AM

Love “fear less”. Being in my fifth decade of life, I think about this a lot. Also, reading/viewing the daily World Biggest Summit participants (and thank you for yours by the way) “savor” is a word that resonates with me. So now I have:

Fear.Less and Savor! Great combo!

Thank you for sharing your thoughts … savor your day!

~Pam

Joanna Paterson

October 14, 2011 AT 2:23PM

Patti, I love your words, and will follow your writing anywhere :-)

I wonder a bit about the idea of fear.less though – isn’t that another example of investment in a false narrative?

Why does the online world get so fixated on how to get past blocks and fears (other than to sell services to help you do just that)

Why don’t we all just… get on with it instead?

Effy Wild

October 19, 2011 AT 12:16PM

“I’m exhausted by all the striving…”

Oh, yes. This. Thank you for putting words to what I’m feeling.