Episode 18: José Cotto - Creator, inspirer, and cultural entrepreneur across scales
- Author
- Ryan McGranaghan
- Published
- Wed 15 Apr 2020
- Episode Link
- None
Show Notes:
- Grew up knowing possibility and that people create things (8:30)
- Being around art, there was always another reality that could be made (9:00)
- How do you sit with tension? (10:00)
- The thing that allows me to maintain balance in the present - keep moving at the pace that feels most fulfilling and productive in the moment
- Find comfort in the tension
- Poetry is complex enough to hold the tension of human experience - pair with Brené Brown's thoughts (12:15)
- Love of poetry (12:30)
- "Where the sidewalk ends" and "Falling up” - Shel Silverstein
- Music - Nas (14:00)
- A love for how people are able to communicate narratives
- Pedagogy (20:15)
- "The way that you move is going to get you to where you need to get” (22:15)
- Community empowerment (24:30)
- Create. Inspire. Support.
- What is it about the physical environment that is preventing people from being about to leave?
- Community is everything (30:00)
- What do you tell people to help them embrace the moment? (31:00)
- Everything is designed and the built environment (31:00)
- Concept of scale (space and time) (32:15)
- The Bayou St. John, New Orleans (35:00)
- Human-level scale and humanizing things (35:30)
- Everything is interconnected
- Pair the discussion with David Krakauer thoughts on complexity
- Regaining lost focus (42:00)
- Taking long breaths and breathing practice
- “The thing that I value most is breathing” (42:30)
- Perspective on pandemics and COVID-19 (45:00)
- Lightning round (48:15)
- Book: "Where the sidewalk ends" and "Falling up” - Shel Silverstein
- Passion outside his work: proximity to social work
- Making his heart sing: new series of drawings called Ancestors
- Changed his mind about lately: “how much I need"
- “The fastest way to have more is to need less"
- Human beings not human doers (55:30)
- Find José online:
- Twitter @jccotto
- https://jccotto.com/
- Ancestors series of drawings
- 'Five-Cut Fridays’ series
