I thought, hey, I'll bet Shanna and I could get on the subject of being a catalyst, or the scarcity and value of confidence, or any of a number of subjects. Compile the brilliance, edit and publish. Real live book. (I've got 5 in the works; one more is only an increase in effort of 20%.)
And Shanna said
Oh, lawdy, could we ever riff off .... well, anything, really. Fun! I don't know what you're looking for in terms of commitment, but I always have more ideas than I can use, and very little inclination to put them into a coherent form. I'm kicking around a couple e-book drafts, but if I can have conversations instead of writing alone...well, it's no contest, really.
Why is confidence so scarce, anyways? I feel like a freak sometimes, when people go on about how then just don't know if they can survive whatever trial they're experiencing, how they would do this or that, but they don't know how, or, especially, this deep-seated conviction that they'll never possess anything that isn't sort of...dropped in their path. For me, the struggle is not whether I can achieve my goals, it's whether they're worth the effort. For everything you choose there are multitudes you reject. What do I really want?
. . . and so, watch for Why We Lead: Conversations on the Scarcity of Confidence and the Nature of Leadership, being released 11/11/11 in Philadelphia.
Hope your launch went well!
It did indeed. As they say, a good time was had by all.