SYNERGY SECRET
2 IDEAS FROM ME
To synergize is to integrate and self-organize “inner” and “inter” consciousness creating a whole more significant than the sum of its parts. Cooking is an excellent metaphor. Each food ingredient has its unique, satisfying taste. For example, fresh mussels harvested from tide pools on the West Coast Trail in British Columbia and cooked over a driftwood fire in a sea cave are savory memories that last a lifetime. Synergy can take it to a new level and create life-changing culinary taste experiences beyond what you get with individual ingredients. One such artisan recipe is harissa spiced mussels. This recipe combines mussels, white wine, onions, butter, garlic, chorizo, harissa, Aleppo pepper flakes, chicken stock, and heavy cream with a fresh Dutch-oven apple-kamut-sourdough bread. This dish was life-changing for me and established an entirely new level of culinary experience along with a hollow-bones curiosity that would last the rest of my lifetime.
Like cooking, there’s an art to synergy. It’s more than simply integrating the ingredients into a bowl. Mindful expertise and experimentation are required to achieve the right balance, preparation, and sequencing of each component (signature strength and flywheel) to create a new experience more excellent than the sum of the parts. Everyone has different signature strengths. Tapping into each other’s signature strengths creates a new experience and capabilities more significant than the sum of the parts.
2 QUOTES FROM SAGES
“I can do things you cannot. You can do things I cannot. Together we can do great things.”—Mother Teresa
“Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people… Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, and almost daily in people’s lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness, and a spirit of adventure. ”—Stephen Covey.
1 QUESTION FOR YOU TO EXPLORE
What daily habit and mindset cultivates synergy toward the things that matter most in your life?
Namaste,
Duane Nelson
