How to find “your thing” (or your many things) – (w/ Constance Hockaday)
Apr 1, 2024
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TED Fellow Constance Hockaday discusses how to navigate and voice our deepest hopes and desires, redefining success and leadership. She shares insights on exploring multiple passions, pursuing liberation by following your passion, and embracing authenticity in art and identity.
Embrace multiple passions and identities to redefine success and leadership.
Identify authentic desires to navigate personal growth and aspirations.
Deep dives
Finding Identity Through Multiple Roles
Many of us juggle various identities simultaneously, unlike those singularly focused on one passion. Guest Constance Hakkade helps redefine leadership and success, inspiring a broader view of personal identity. She emphasizes that personal identity constantly evolves, reflecting her own multifaceted roles as an artist, facilitator, and leader, navigating through diverse professional and personal aspects.
Captain Betsy's Influence and Three Deepest Desires
Captain Betsy profoundly impacted Constance by teaching her the concept of the three deepest desires. This exercise involves identifying authentic desires guiding one's life path. Its goal is to prevent being hindered by singular or binary thinking, encouraging a balanced approach to decision-making and personal orientation. Constance's desires evolved from basic wishes like seeing waterfalls to embodying values like fostering community, showing the significance of personal growth and aspirations.
Artistic Expression and Corporate World Integration
Constance's art projects, inspired by the floating neutrinos, reflect a deep connection to water as a transformative public space. She creatively challenges societal norms, such as perceived access to natural environments, through her installations like floating hotels and the disaster furniture showroom. The intersection of her artistry and organizational development showcases the shared principles of world and culture building, emphasizing communication, vision, and group alignment in both art and corporate settings.
Authenticity in Identity Expression
Constance underscores the importance of owning one's authentic self amidst societal pressures to conform to predefined identities. She discusses the masks or roles people adopt across different aspects of life and how straying from these predetermined personas can lead to true self-revelation. By embracing authenticity, individuals like Constance and others can align their true desires with their actions, fostering genuine self-expression and fulfillment across various roles and identities.
Some people are born knowing exactly what they want to do with their life – and because of that, they’re able to get to the top of their field. But most of us have multiple passions and identities, making it difficult to visualize our own unique paths.. So, how do we explore who we are and what we love to do in our careers and in our lives? This week, guest & TED Fellow Constance Hockaday helps us navigate and voice our deepest hopes and desires. She walks us through her perspective as an artist, what she’s learned from immersing herself into small and sometimes very isolated communities, and gives tips on how to find liberation by pursuing your passion. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts