"Treating different things the same can generate as much inequality as treating the same things differently." - Kimberle Crenshaw Last nights call was centered around the idea of each of our unique Loves and Loathes, our Red Thread. I was introduced to Red Threads very recently reading the book "Love + Work" by Marcus Buckingham. The books key theme is how do we bring doing what we love back into our lives, especially when it comes to our work. Major institutions like high school, college, and corporate structures are built to distract your attention from your unique loves and loathes and instead try to convince you that there is nothing unique about you. These institutions a purpose-built to make you believe you are an empty vessel whose only goal is to fill yourself up with skills, knowledge, grades, and degrees required to climb to the next rung on the ladder. A Red Thread represents a recurring pattern of thought or behavior that brings joy, excitement, and fulfillment when engaged in specific activities. These are not just skills or talents, but rather deep-seated patterns that make us feel most alive and in flow. Highly personal and unique to each individual. They appear early in life and remain relatively constant, serving as reliable indicators of what activities will bring satisfaction and excellence in work. Red Threads will: - Make time fly by - Energize rather than drain you - Make you feel most like yourself - Be your best performances A Love Note to Yourself As society we try to generalize everything we are good at. "Krystal loves a challenge" implies that Krystal loves all types of challenges, when in reality if we dig deeper there are only certain types of challenges Krystal enjoys. Last night, we took one of these generalized statements abour ourselves and dug deeper with 5 "Does it matter..." questions. Start by writing down something you love. "I love it when..." Now to go deeper as yourself these 5 questions one at a time and write down the answer: