New ideas and creative thought are what make our hearts skip a beat and I believe that in our culture of busyness as identity that learning the art of embracing boredom will allow our minds to harness the “what if” questions that in the end push us on our pursuit to that ever elusive something more meaningful. At around the age of 40 it hit me that although I loved my vocation and the non-profit sector I was averting the restlessness and looming boredom I was sensing within by doing and being more rather than raising my antennae enough to just allow boredom to do what it’s supposed to do when you’re in it. Research has shown that boredom fulfills a very important function: it makes people desire to engage in something they find more meaningful than what they are currently experiencing and my own boredom precipitated the creation of my business, my handcraft and the start of something I truly love. Dr. Scott Hofert is the founder and head leathersmith of ColsenKeane Leather based in Charlotte, NC and co-founder and co-pastor of the non-denominational church, Watershed, in Plaza Midwood in Charlotte. A self-confessed leather goods junkie, father of two sons, husband, former world traveler turned homebody, aspiring but still novice yogi and semi-reluctant vintage Airstream restorer, Scott spent his twenties working in humanitarian aid in over forty countries, his thirties starting a family and a spiritual community in an urban setting and began his American made leather goods company at age forty. Obsessed with entrepreneurship, transformation, creating and implementing new initiatives, cultivating spirituality in community, empowering the marginalized and co-leadership, his greatest joys are found in building the kind of family, community and goods that are made to last the long haul. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
29 ноя 2017
