Massimo Redaelli shares his experiences, emphasizing the importance of creativity, intuition, and emotion for professional growth. He recounts his career journey, from being a manager to becoming an entrepreneur, highlighting how leaving his company led him to seek new opportunities and gain confidence.

Massimo discusses his time in Hollywood, the challenges he faced, and the lessons he learned. He reflects on his experiences at Singularity University, where he explored fast-growing technologies and innovation, learning from influential figures like Ray Kurzweil, Peter Diamandis, and Salim Ismail. These teachings shaped his view of technology and its potential.

He explains his realization that his career should focus on emotion rather than just technology, stressing the unique qualities of the heart—passion, intuition, and instinct—as crucial for innovation and creativity.

Massimo shares his struggles in Silicon Valley to find acceptance for his ideas about emotion and creativity, noting support from Ivy Ross at Google and Sandra Lopez at Intel, who recognized the importance of emotion in design and innovation.

He also discusses the value of failure as a learning experience, contrasting European and US attitudes toward failure, and emphasizes learning from mistakes as growth opportunities. Massimo addresses the challenges of being an outsider and a generalist in a world that often values specialists, advocating for diverse perspectives and blending skills to find complete solutions.

In closing, he offers advice to the younger generation to follow their hearts, trust their instincts, share their journey with like-minded people, and be open to learning from failures while listening to their inner voice to find their true mission in life.

Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction
01:01 Becoming an Entrepreneur
06:01 Hollywood Experience
10:01 Singularity University
15:01 Embracing Emotion
20:01 Challenges in Silicon Valley
23:01 Importance of Failure
27:01 The Outsider Perspective
31:01 Advice for the Younger Generation

Connect with Massimo: LinkedIn

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