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Wanderful the podcast is created and hosted by arts-in-business innovator David Pearl to help you bring a bit of wonder to your walking. Inspired by David’s not-profit social movement Street Wisdom that brings free guided in-person and online walking workshops to city streets in 80 countries and counting. Each episode takes an entertaining and light- hearted look at an aspect of life we all secretly struggle with or want to get better at: optimism, creativity, relationships, wealth, direction… you get the idea. We’ll start the walks by exploring the everyday challenge in the company of an entertaining and refreshingly, imperfectly human, guest. Then, following simple instructions provided by David, the walk becomes a way to get clarity, insight and learn new skills you can use every day to help you find answers to your life questions. All you need is some headphones and a phone so you can get outside and walk whilst listening, but if you are tuning in at home then walking (slowly) inside your house, also works well too. You can dig deeper into the power of wandering and getting off the beaten track in David’s book Wanderful: Human Navigation for a Complex World available at leading bookstores. Follow @streetwisdom_ @davidpearlhere for more ideas and inspiration on leading a Wanderful life https://wanderfulpodcast.com/
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Tuesday Sep 21, 2021
Tuesday Sep 21, 2021
"I am completely turned on by being a frog kisser."
Sir Tim Smit KBE is one of the most recognisable and respected characters in the field of environment and sustainability. He is probably best known for his achievements in Cornwall where he ‘discovered’ and then restored The Lost Gardens of Heligan with John Nelson, which is now one of the UK’s best-loved gardens.
Tim is Executive Vice-Chair and Co-founder of the multi-award-winning Eden Project in Cornwall. Since its opening in 2001, over 22 million people have come to see a once sterile pit, turned into a cradle of life containing world-class horticulture and startling architecture symbolic of human endeavour. Tim is also Executive Co-Chair for Eden Project International which aims to have an Eden Project on every inhabited continent by 2025.
In this warm and engaging episode of Wanderful, David gets to have a meandering talk with one of his heroes exploring the inspiration behind Tim’s projects and what makes them magnetic to the thousands of people who keep them vibrant and alive.
Tim touches upon the problem of male vanity & ego at a time when there is a need for more collaboration and ensemble-working as we turn our attention to the challenges of climate change.
The conversation ends with a gentle analysis of the word ‘community’ and the importance of gifting and relationship building.
Full episode https://linktr.ee/DavidPearl
Timeline
0.00 – 00.45
Theme / Introduction
00.45
Introducing Sir Tim Smit
04.16
The word ‘sustainability’ versus the word ‘nature’
06.47
How does Sir Tim get so much done?
The people who are drawn to Eden
11.17
The biggest barrier to resolving climate change is male vanity
12.50
How is the Tim of today compared to the Tim of the early days?
15.35
Ensembles need leaders
17.33
The Eden Project allows people to find meaning
18.56
The Big Lunch – local connections & true community
25.21
The meaning of community
26.21
Identity & Violence by Amartya Sen
The polymathy that makes us
27.32
What is Sir Tim’s ‘verb?’
32.02
What does Tim do when he is wandering?
35.51
David sets up the ‘Wanderful’ exercise
38.27
What happened during the exercise
Resources Mentioned
The Lost Gardens of Heligan
The Eden Project
The Big Lunch
https://www.purpose-done-right.com/the-big-lunch
Identity & Violence by Amartya Sen
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/558/55882/identity-and-violence/9780141027807.html
Ulysses by Lord Tennyson
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45392/ulysses
Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31463.Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd
Standout Quotes
“Almost everybody who comes towards or who is drawn to Eden is a slightly square peg looking for a square hole.” (Sir Tim Smit)
“The biggest barrier to resolving climate change is male vanity” (David Pearl attributed to Sir Tim Smit)
‘Vanity leads you to not listening enough. Nobody ever learnt anything by talking” (Sir Tim Smit)
“True genius is generally a construct of many different people” (Sir Tim Smit)
“The key code to you is noticing that a whole bunch of people needed you and valued you.” (Sir Tim Smit)
“The thing about the Big Lunch is not the day that’s important, it’s all the socialising and organising before.” (Sir Tim Smit)
“People are basically good. They don’t know how to be given permission to do good things sometimes.” (Sir Tim Smit)
“The origin of community is ‘comm' meaning together and ‘munos’, meaning gift. It’s about the relationships of the people. You can’t be in a community if its passive” (Sir Tim Smit)
“Can I have a verb which is to kiss frogs? I am completely turned on by being a frog kisser. I love putting things into good heart. (Sir Tim Smit)
“You can’t always re-build but you can if you are thoughtful, gentle and kind, make things content again.” (Sir Tim Smit)
“Contentment is a deeper running river.” (Sir Tim Smit)
“We take water as a simple thing at our peril.” (Sir Tim Smit)
Street Wisdom is an everyday creative practise founded by David Pearl which you use as you walk to help you unblock your mind to find clarity and inspiration.
You can download our simple audio guides on Spotify – just search for Street Wisdom.
Connect
Sir Tim Smit KBE
Web - www.edenproject.com,
Twitter – edenproject
LinkedIn – eden-project
Facebook- theedenproject
Instagram –edenprojectcornwall
David Pearl
Twitter @davidpearlhere
Instagram @davidpearl_here
Andrew Paine (Producer)
Twitter @ItPainesMe
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