97. Some organizations that do really cool stuff

What this episode covers

SCRIPT Have you heard of something called the “flow state”? The brilliant psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi coined the term flow state to describe that feeling when you get *COMPLETELY* absorbed in what you’re doing, to the point where nothing else matters, and space and time disappear. Incidentally, according to Dr. Csikszentmihalyi, we never feel happier than when we’re in the flow state. Those rare and precious times when I find flow like that, whether I’m writing or practicing music or whatever, I emerge with this sense that I must be a genius. This, of course, is nonsense. But something that ISN’T nonsense, is that when I find the flow I’m able to take whatever shred of creativity and insight I have and synthesize it with OTHER people’s genius, and come up with something that’s a little bit new – at least to me. And so this episode is where I give a shout out to some organizations with amazing people in them that are doing things that push me to think about corporate governance in new ways, and hopefully to also have a slightly more positive impact on the world. FYI, none of them are paying me. In some cases they don’t even know me, and certainly never asked for my help. I’m just hoping you might take a second and check them out, and try to see through my eyes why they’re important to the future of corporate governance. Have a look at the links in the description of this episode and do some clicking. It’s just a tiny list based on what’s been on my mind lately. There are at least a million other organizations you should look at, or that that I don’t know about or forgot to include – if you know of any, send them my way. I’m always looking for that flow state…