You Need a Manifesto by Charlotte Burgess-Auburn & Stanford d.school

Author:Charlotte Burgess-Auburn & Stanford d.school [Burgess-Auburn, Charlotte & Stanford d.school]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
Published: 2022-10-04T00:00:00+00:00

Sound It Out

Put your packet of printed materials in front of you. With your scissors at the ready, begin to read. As you read through your collected manifestos, missives, and mantras, notice the statements that you are attracted to. When you read something that you feel is true for you, collect it by cutting it out with your scissors. Put some time into this, but don’t overthink it. It should take less than an hour for you to look through your sources and collect a pile of statements that resonates with you.

Ring your bell

Think of your goals, values, and ethics as your bell. Use your System 1 thinking and pay attention to how you feel as you explore the works you’ve chosen. What rings true to you? When you find something on your frequency, capture it, copy it, cut it out, and put it into the collection pile.

You are looking for statements to which you have an emotional reaction. It could be positive (resonance) or negative (dissonance), but it should have some amplitude. No “meh” statements. Most of the statements you collect will have a positive resonance, which might feel like an affinity, a sense of rightness or truth, or an urge to remember or hold onto a statement or an idea. When it’s negative, it could feel like a provocation, an itch, anger, or an urge to amend, tweak, reframe, or change. Does it ring a sour note? Grapple with it, and see if you might want to counter it with a reaction of your own. If it engages you, capture it and keep it in your pile to work with later.

The act of collecting might be an affirmation of your experience, an aspiration to new behaviors, or a need to challenge accepted wisdom. The statements you harvest could be about process, actions, and behaviors or about mindsets, beliefs, and values. In fact, it’s great to capture a wide variety of types of statements. If you’ve got wisdom of your own, from a notebook or in your head, write it out on an empty patch of paper and cut it out.

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