Episode 2: Code Switching with Aithan Shapira

In the world of art, Aithan Shapira would be considered Picasso’s grandson. He is an internationally acclaimed artist and Lecturer at MIT Sloan. Facilitator, executive coach, and founder of Making to Think, a pedagogy for change that is enabling global organizations, governments, and Fortune 100 leaders to create conditions—strategic, structural, behavioral—for enduring cultures of innovation.

True to his lineage, Aithan invites you into worlds of white canvases, leadership in the face of uncertainty, and into the practice of “Code Switching” or “Folding” - bridging or communicating across difference to show sameness and the places where we can support each other and complement our uniqueness. “The underlying challenge we are facing as a culture is our ability to change. Can we become more able and grow our capacity to change, change our perspectives, and work with things that are different? The beginning of any sort of creativity is destruction. Can we learn to destroy in order to create?”

You’re built to change. You’re not made to become more of the same. But we spend a lot of time becoming more of the same. You can't change situations but you can change yourself. Knowing that you're able to change doesn’t make it easier but helps you be more adaptable to change.

Let the exterior world in and respond to it. That's what adaptability is. It works in both directions. “Love what you’re seeing and love seeing it all”.
Until soon! Be curious, be inspired, simplify the way…

Aithan Shapira
http://aithanshapira.com/
https://www.makingtothink.com/
Uncertainty, Aithan Shapira TEDx Berkley Valencia