One Apple A Day #773 - walk and talk
I've discovered the creative power of walking more than ten years ago.
It was a tough moment in my life. At that time, I was living near a river, and I learned the soothing power of long walks along the stream of water.
It became my way of dealing with tough choices, unsolvable problems and scary questions.
Years later, my friend Luca came to Valencia to talk and create ideas to evolve our collaboration. It was a lovely warm day, so we went out for a walk. And we quickly realize that our brainstormings were far more creative when we were walking. Without our computers to search and check stuff, and with no notepad to stop the stream of consciousness, ideas kept flowing and flowing.
So, instead of sitting in a café, we spent the rest of our time together walking, talking and ideating.
After I moved back to Italy, we deiced to meet every month for at least a one-day walking session. But after the first one, this pandemic happened.
Stuck in our home, we naturally began to have a walking meeting over the phone every morning; Luca walking in his hills, myself walking around the house.
Some mornings I walk in circles inside my living room.
Only one simple rule; walking while talking.
It is now one of the most powerful practices in my life. Even when I want to have a creative conversation with myself.
To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, wheteher we write it down or not.
Mark Nepo