Moment 138: The Power of Letting Go & Embracing the Unknown Bozoma Saint John
Dec 1, 2023
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Bozoma Saint John, American businessperson and marketing executive, discusses the power of letting go and embracing the unknown to find your destiny. She emphasizes the importance of listening to your intuition, making choices, and defining your own version of success.
Being open to the unknown can lead to unexpected and fulfilling paths in life.
Listening to and trusting your intuition is essential in creating your own destiny.
Deep dives
The importance of curiosity and being open to new opportunities
Curiosity prompted the speaker to move to New York after college without a solid plan. This decision led them to a significant career opportunity with Spike Lee's agency. They believe that being open to the unknown and letting go of preconceived ideas can lead to unexpected and fulfilling paths in life.
Trusting intuition and making choices aligned with personal destiny
The speaker emphasizes the significance of listening to intuition and trusting it as a guide. They describe how their intuition has led them to make important career decisions, even when faced with skepticism from others. They believe that constantly tuning into intuition and making choices aligned with personal growth and fulfillment is essential in creating one's own destiny.
Defining success and avoiding external influences
The speaker highlights the importance of defining success on one's own terms rather than letting others dictate it. They caution against allowing external voices, societal expectations, or social media to shape one's definition of success. By clarifying individual definitions of success, individuals can find greater fulfillment by pursuing paths that align with their own desires and values.
In this moment, the American businessperson and marketing executive, Bozoma Saint John discusses how to find your destiny. Bozoma says that too often people say that they just ‘fell into’ the job or industry they are in, when in fact she believes that this is destiny coming to find you and that we are constantly creating our destiny. She says that we underestimate the power of letting go of control (which is not the same as surrendering or giving up) as a way of opening up to different possibilities and routes to finding our destiny. As too often we bang our heads against closed doors, when instead there is an open door that is open on a different route. To realise this, she says we need to treat our powers of intuition like a muscle, ignoring external voices and opinions, training and growing your intuition to the point where you can have 100% faith in whatever it is telling you.