Il mio rapporto con Venezia è un po’ conflittuale devo dire la verità. Certo la città è meravigliosa, unica, preziosa, emozionante, coinvolgente. Ma non ho mai amato la confusione, la sensazione labirintica di una città nella quale perdersi è facilissimo, almeno per me, l’umidità estiva e quella invernale (sempre umido, cazzo). Questo weekend ho capito cos’è. Venezia è una città per chi vive la vita come un passaggio.
A Venezia non ci si ferma, non si aspetta, non si viene con delle certezze, anche se così fosse, la si lascia avendone qualcuna in meno. (Di fatto questo andrebbe spiegato a tutte le coppiette che vengono qui a fare la luna di miele).
Da un punto a un altro. E anche perdersi in questo dedalo di sestieri, calli, vicoli, diventa allora un godimento (soprattutto se si sono bevuti un po’ di spritz). I ponti servono a unire due punti non per fermarsi, perché a Venezia non ci si ferma mai. Ed è un continuo muoversi da un punto a un altro, da una sensazione a un’altra, dalla cupezza di alcuni punti all’estasi della scoperta di uno scorcio che non può non entrarti nel cuore per sempre. Un movimento tra la contemporaneità e la tradizione, tra la sciatteria di alcuni vicoli e l’eleganza dei palazzi, tra l’allegria dei turisti e dei gondolieri e un senso profondo di malinconia che ti prende mentre ci cammini attraverso. Niente però è statico, fermo, uguale a se stesso.
Sii gentile con le persone e ascoltale. Un giorno potresti avere bisogno di persone gentili che ti ascoltano.
Golden Gate (Lolo filtered) (Photo credit: alkatim)
Sii aperto alle idee degli altri e cerca di colmare le distanza geografiche e di pensiero. Il confronto con gli altri, specialmente se con un diverso background, sono l’elemento che più arricchirà la tua vita.
Risolvi le questioni più urgenti prima di partire. Potresti pentirti di non aver avuto la testa sufficientemente libera per goderti l’esperienza.
Copriti bene. Non prendere medicine sconosciute. Potresti pentirtene.
Fai attività fisica regolarmente anche se sei lontano da casa.
Tu sei la tua value proposition. Per presentarti a volte hai solo qualche minuto. In quel momento crei una prima impressione attraverso il tuo pitch.
Se usi un grabber forte conquisti qualche minuto in più. Altrimenti ciao.
Guardati dai competitor (ce ne sono un casino, più il territorio è fertile) e posizionati in modo chiaro e differenziato. Cerca di risolvere un problema in modo innovativo e unico, rispondi a bisogni concreti. E qui devi scegliere: non puoi essere everything for everyone. Scegli accuratamente il tuo target. Altrimenti, ciao.
Se riesci a convincere la persona di fronte a te del tuo valore, ne riceverai in cambio qualcosa. Altrimenti, ciao.
A quel punto le cose inizieranno a diventare più serie.
Tieni sempre conto che il ciclo di vita di tutto prevede una crescita, una maturità e infine il declino. Sta a te innovare per evitare la morte. Altrimenti, ciao.
Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and away!
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go.
You’ll look up and down streets. Look ‘em over with care. About some you will say, “I don’t choose to go there.” With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you’re too smart to go down any not-so-good street.
And you may not find any you’ll want to go down. In that case, of course, you’ll head straight out of town.
It’s opener there in the wide open air.
Out there things can happen and frequently do to people as brainy and footsy as you.
And when things start to happen, don’t worry. Don’t stew. Just go right along. You’ll start happening too.
OH! THE PLACES YOU’LL GO!
You’ll be on your way up! You’ll be seeing great sights! You’ll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.
You won’t lag behind, because you’ll have the speed. You’ll pass the whole gang and you’ll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you’ll be the best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.
Except when you don’ t Because, sometimes, you won’t.
I’m sorry to say so but, sadly, it’s true and Hang-ups can happen to you.
You can get all hung up in a prickle-ly perch. And your gang will fly on. You’ll be left in a Lurch.
You’ll come down from the Lurch with an unpleasant bump. And the chances are, then, that you’ll be in a Slump.
And when you’re in a Slump, you’re not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.
You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted. But mostly they’re darked. A place you could sprain both you elbow and chin! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win?
And IF you go in, should you turn left or right… or right-and-three-quarters? Or, maybe, not quite? Or go around back and sneak in from behind? Simple it’s not, I’m afraid you will find, for a mind-maker-upper to make up his mind.
You can get so confused that you’ll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place…
…for people just waiting. Waiting for a train to go or a bus to come, or a plane to go or the mail to come, or the rain to go or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow or waiting around for a Yes or a No or waiting for their hair to grow. Everyone is just waiting.
Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite or waiting around for Friday night or waiting, perhaps, for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil, or a Better Break or a sting of pearls, or a pair of pants or a wig with curls, or Another Chance. Everyone is just waiting.
NO! That’s not for you!
Somehow you’ll escape all that waiting and staying. You’ll find the bright places where Boom Bands are playing.
With banner flip-flapping, once more you’ll ride high! Ready for anything under the sky. Ready because you’re that kind of a guy!
Oh, the places you’ll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. there are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all. Fame! You’ll be famous as famous can be, with the whole wide world watching you win on TV.
Except when they don’t. Because, sometimes, they won’t.
I’m afraid that some times you’ll play lonely games too. Games you can’t win ’cause you’ll play against you.
All Alone! Whether you like it or not, Alone will be something you’ll be quite a lot.
And when you’re alone, there’s a very good chance you’ll meet things that scare you right out of your pants. There are some, down the road between hither and yon, that can scare you so much you won’t want to go on.
But on you will go though the weather be foul On you will go though your enemies prowl On you will go though the Hakken-Kraks howl Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak.
On and on you will hike and I know you’ll hike far and face up to your problems whatever they are.
You’ll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You’ll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left.
And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3 / 4 percent guaranteed.)
KID, YOU’LL MOVE MOUNTAINS!
So… be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O’Shea, you’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So…get on your way!
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
The comfort zone is a behavioural state within which a person operates in an anxiety-neutral condition, using a limited set of behaviours to deliver a steady level of performance, usually without a sense of risk (White 2009).[1] A person’s personality can be described by his or her comfort zones.
Highly successful persons may routinely step outside their comfort zones, to accomplish what they wish. A comfort zone is a type of mental conditioning that causes a person to create and operate mental boundaries. Such boundaries create an unfounded sense of security. Like inertia, a person who has established a comfort zone in a particular axis of his or her life, will tend to stay within that zone without stepping outside of it. To step outside a person’s comfort zone, they must experiment with new and different behaviours, and then experience the new and different responses that then occur within their environment.
Da un punto a un altro. E anche perdersi in questo dedalo di sestieri, calli, vicoli, diventa allora un godimento (soprattutto se si sono bevuti un po’ di spritz). I ponti servono a unire due punti non per fermarsi, perché a Venezia non ci si ferma mai. Ed è un continuo muoversi da un punto a un altro, da una sensazione a un’altra, dalla cupezza di alcuni punti all’estasi della scoperta di uno scorcio che non può non entrarti nel cuore per sempre. Un movimento tra la contemporaneità e la tradizione, tra la sciatteria di alcuni vicoli e l’eleganza dei palazzi, tra l’allegria dei turisti e dei gondolieri e un senso profondo di malinconia che ti prende mentre ci cammini attraverso. Niente però è statico, fermo, uguale a se stesso. 
