Thank you Gino Marckx
With an interesting link between stress and cuddling. They create the same hormone.
People who spend time caring for others (while under stress), showed absolute no increase in dying. Caring created resilience.
Chasing meaning is better for your health then trying to avoid discomfort
Ale is one of these amazing conferences.
(XPDay Benelux, AgileEE, AYE are some of the others)
I am sitting in an aiport, alone, like I will be for the next 9 hours before I will be home, were I will arrive in a dark quite home as my loving family will be asleep.
I feel lonely, I feel sad: I know this feeling. I’m in what Jim McCarthy calls recoil.
Recoil is technically the word that describes what you get when you fire a weapon.
You get a push back. And every time you achieve or experience something amazing, you will get this feeling. I think it’s a feeling that creates adrenaline junkies. They go for their next shot of adrenaline, to avoid recoil.
The better way, is to accept recoil, as it’s a message that your body sends you that you experienced something great.
Will I go to a small little corner of the airport and cry? I sure feel like it.
yet luckily I have a better solution. What I learned from the core protocol bootcamps. Is that to deal with recoil, I should go on adventure. Go out and do something new.
To something crazy, let my life be guided by serendipity. In an aiport, I don’t have much options for that. I could think of passing security as an adventure, yet I have done this already many times and that is also behind me.
The best adventure I can think, is to sink myself in a book.
To what adventure has #ALE13 inspired you?
Hug
yves
PS Here is some inspiration how you can spread the spirit from ALE and make the world resemble that better place ALE is.
The 9 nana’s
PPS If you want to follow my idea and our out of books:
1) Buy The Agile leanpub bundle. 12 books related to agile for 50 dollar. A lot of authors were at #ALE
2) Buy any of the books suggested by ALE13 participants.