Becoming Supermindful with Eliza Lay Ryan
b'Eliza Lay Ryan is the author of Supermindful: How to Tap into Your Creativity. She is also the founder of a business that shares the same name as her book. Her work promotes the cultivation of curiosity for more resilience, better collaborations, and more creativity. She has worked with leaders in neuroscience, business, and wellness to learn from the practices that actors use in their craft. Her goal is to use these findings so that anyone become more present, authentic, flexible, and empathetic in their own life.\\n\\nLEADERSHIP INSIGHTS\\n\\n- \\u201cSupermindfulness\\u201d is a marriage between rooting down into our own perspectives while also expanding to others\\u2019 perspectives, being flexible, and seeing things in new ways.\\n- The more we look at and inquire into our discomfort, the less frightening it is and the stronger we feel\\u2014both for ourselves and others.\\n- As a way to understand people better, try to embody their physicality.\\n- Most people\\u2019s default is judgement and defensiveness. Instead, work to develop an orientation of curiosity and collaboration.\\n- The act of play\\u2014living in a posture of wonder (i.e. being in a place of not knowing without being afraid and not limiting your expectations)\\u2014allows you to be in a space where you can hold all of the benefits of any experience that you\\u2019re engaged with.\\n- Being present in a moment means you have a gap between what\\u2019s happening and your reaction to it.\\n- Practicing mindfulness helps to build new neural connections. This happens most effectively through experience and engaging your whole self.\\n- Instead of stopping behaviors, start doing new behaviors. Using the imagination can help in the process of building new neural pathways to help us become the person we intend to be rather than the person we are habituated to be.\\n\\nQUESTIONS TO INSPIRE US TO ACTION\\n\\n\\u2013 What is some lesson, saying, or experience that continues to influence your leadership to this day? Writing a play and having someone else direct it, which taught the power of collaboration and the possibility of a group\\u2019s product being better than an individual\\u2019s work. Also, the development of curiosity (especially in moments of conflict\\u2014taking time to think about how others are experiencing it).\\n- Use three descriptors to finish this sentence: \\u201cA leader is\\u2026\\u201d Open, supportive, and visioning.\\n- What is a question that leaders should be asking either themselves or others? What is needed in this moment, with this people, on this project?\\n- What book would you recommend to leaders? Daring Greatly by Bren\\xe9 Brown\\n- If you could get every listener to start doing something THIS week to help them be a better leader, what would it be? Ask \\u201cwhy?\\u201d about the wants and actions of others.\\n- As a general life principle, is it better to ask \\u201cwhy?\\u201d or \\u201cwhy not?\\u201d\\n\\u201cWhy?\\u201d (but for a different reason than above) because it places people in a beginner\\u2019s mind.\\n\\nWebsite:\\nhttps://www.supermindful.co/\\n\\nContact:\\ninfo@supermindful.co\\n\\nFind Eliza on social media:\\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/supermindfulness/ (@supermindfulness)'