016. FRONTIER

What kind of leadership is required for navigating the frontier?

According to the dictionary, one definition of the frontier is a region that forms the edge of a part of a settled country. Even for those of us who may have never experienced an actual frontier, our imagination is shaped by the idea of it: that some wild place out there where danger and possibility meet. 

Today we're continuing to push the boundaries of our human experience further into the wilds of space. More locally, we keep pushing the edges of science, technology, innovation, or engineering. 

There's also our personal frontier Poet David Whyte says, "Just put yourself at that frontier, at that edge, and our originality should take care of itself." 

A few questions I'm asking myself about kindness: What does the frontier mean for our day and time? What frontiers are worth pushing toward and when do we say "that's far enough"? What kind of leadership is required for navigating the frontier? How might we find our own inner frontier?


Here are a few things I’m reading about frontier:

Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry 

Being at the Frontier of Your Identity, David Whyte

The Final Ethical Frontier, Aeon

Into the Heart of Life, Brain Pickings

Where do Minds Belong?, Aeon