The Cirque du Soleil Model!

Posted on | March 28, 2009 | No Comments

Why doesn’t every activity we participate in have the same impact as Cirque du Soleil?

Why is it that everything we do does not embody the spirit of Cirque du Soleil?

In particular, but not exclusively, I am thinking about how I teach at Zayed University or broadcast at Dubai Eye.

Wait a second why can’t everything be like Cirque?

And I mean everything!

My children saw Alegria recently and my wife and I did not prepare them for the experience we just let it happen.

My 2 sons summed the experience up in one word, WOW!

Maybe that is the problem with the way we construct and interact with the environments we touch daily.

And I do believe we have our own environments and then we nudge the environments of others on a regular basis.

The environmental issue for Cirque du Soleil is they create a complete experience!

And what you and I do is pay little attention to the experience thinking more in terms of content and not the coexistance of the two.

How can you separate content and experience anyway?

You cannot BUT we do our best to try and I think successfully sabotage our endeavours!

So if it is thinking 100% about experience that makes Cirque du Soleil work, and TED as well for that matter, where do we get trained to do this?

Why is experience conceptualisation absent from our education?

Why is planning for experience the last thing we think about when it comes to meetings, activities, business, politics and education in general?

1. takes to much thought

2. requires a team effort

3. requires extreme optimism

4.requires being willing to suspend reality

5.needs the acceptance that things might fail

6.cost

7.we work too slow

8.we change things when they work too often

9.trust

10. we strive, and are happy, for mediocrity and not the exceptional every time we do something

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