Xerox has launched an online journal, Chief Optimist, and invited Will Taylor, a co-founder of Fast Company and its managing editor, to write an article, "Why Optimists will Win the Future."

Read it here: Chief Optimist?Inaugural Issue - Why Optimists Will Win the Future

He posed 4 questions:

1. What ideas separate you from everyone else?
2. Do you and your people care more than anyone else?
3. Do you have customers who can't live without you?
4. Are you learning as fast as the world is changing?

I suppose each of us might find different questions, or re-write these in different ways to suit where we are now in our journeys.

For me, as an exercise, I might reword these as:

1. What is it I bring to living that no one else can ever exactly duplicate? In writing this is called finding ones voice. In Jazz, getting ones chops. To discover it may require time alone practicing, or traveling, or alone and sitting with the question. And when that gentle whisper of an answer responds, I want to be listening.
2. What do I care about more than anybody?
3. Am I showing up in a compelling way?
4. Am I focused on exactly what I need to learn and avoiding entertaining distractions?

Your thoughts?
Revu2