Our brain is designed to make sense of what it sees. To do so it employs a narrative. Narrative structures provide us with a progression that presents a particular logic to us. To test this I ran an experiment. To support the publication of my book “Intentional: How to Live, Love, Work and Play Meaningfully” I brought out, almost every day, a quote that was pulled directly from some of the neuroscientific studies I had used when I wrote it. Each quote is a representation of the links between actions and thoughts, values and beliefs. It reflects a tiny aspect of our behavior. I then shared those quotes across the social web. At last count those quotes, each of which came out in beautiful gold script in a totally black box was approaching three hundred. I dipped into them at random, picking out ten of them from a thumbnail view. The thumbnails were too small for me to read the text so that made it a totally random pick. I then arranged these ten, randomly picked quotes in an order that helps them make more sense. See if you can see your personal and professional journey reflected in them, as I did. Consider the narrative that each one unveils inside you and how it makes you feel.

1. Joining The Dots
Understanding The Value Of Your Personal Journey
A social experiment in just ten slides

2. From: “Auguries of Innocence”
TO SEE A WORLD IN A
GRAIN OF SAND
AND A HEAVEN IN A
WILD FLOWER
HOLD INFINITY IN THE
PALM OF YOUR HAND
AND ETERNITY IN AN
HOUR
- William Blake

3. • Is this possible? Can we see the world through a tiny slice of it?
• I ran an experiment. To support the publication of my book “Intentional: How to Live, Love,
Work and Play Meaningfully” I brought out, almost every day, a quote that was pulled directly
from some of the neuroscientific studies I had used when I wrote it.
• Each quote was a representation of the links between actions and thoughts, values and
beliefs. It reflected a tiny aspect of our behavior. I then shared those quotes across the social
web.
• At last count those quotes, each of which came out in beautiful gold script in a totally black
box was approaching three hundred. I dipped into them at random, picking out ten of them
from a thumbnail view. The thumbnails were too small for me to read the text so that made it
a totally random pick.
• I then arranged these ten, randomly picked quotes in an order that helps them make more
sense. See if you can see your personal and professional journey reflected in them, as I did.