Creativity Is Connection with poet IN-Q

A Bit of Optimism

The Optimism Company from Simon Sinek

Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Management, Education

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Business and poetry usually don't mix. But vulnerability has the power to bring teams together.

Poet IN-Q has found an unlikely audience in business. A slam poetry veteran and accomplished songwriter, companies invite IN-Q to help strengthen their cultures. He works with teams to connect on a deeper level, using poetry to share something human. As he'll tell you, winning over crowds of skeptical businesspeople is an art.

In this conversation, IN-Q takes me through a powerful exercise in vulnerability. He shares some deeply personal poems and walks me through writing my own, and I learn that to truly connect with someone else, you must offer something of yourself first.

This...is A Bit of Optimism.

To learn more about IN-Q and his work, check out:

The Never Ending Now poetry journal

IN-Q.com

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Why would a corporation ever hire a poet?
0:03.4	I mean, what could reading poetry do to improve a company's performance?
0:07.1	The answer may surprise you.
0:09.4	In the same way, it surprised me.
0:11.8	Stay tuned. It started with a backpack at the
0:16.1	with a backpack at the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games,
0:20.3	a backpack that contain a bomb.
0:23.0	While the authorities focused on the wrong suspect,
0:26.0	a serial bomber planned his next attacks,
0:29.0	two abortion clinics and a lesbian bar. But this isn't his story, it's a human story, one that I've become
0:39.2	entangled with. I saw, as soon as I turned the corner, basically someone bleeding out.
0:44.0	The victims of these brutal attacks were left to pick up the pieces, forced to explore the gray
0:48.4	areas between right and wrong, life and death.
0:51.7	Their once ordinary lives and mine changed forever. life and life,
0:53.0	their once ordinary lives and mine change forever.
0:55.0	It kind of gave me a feeling of pending doom.
0:58.0	And all the while,
1:00.0	our country found itself facing down a long and ugly reckoning with a growing threat.
1:04.8	Far right, homegrown, religious terrorism.
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1:14.6	Hi, I'm Katie Lowe's.
1:17.6	And I'm Guillermo Diaz.
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