The first step of 30 doubling quest just happened! Are you the next one to take it?

On March of 2020, when the pandemic stopped the world and all of us were locked into our home for a long time, the meaning of the world "exponential" gained a different perspective for me. Since I first read the book Exponential Organizations, and learned that the human perception is linear, but the world around us is exponential.

I started to learning from the environment around me in such a way that never happened before. Staying at home, watching the news to try to understand what would come next, and what should the future look like tomorrow, next week, next month or whatever time we would have left. The perception of time accelerated in such a way, that one day looked like one week. The digital resources then contributed to increase the access to information, accelerating even more our lives. And space was not the same as well. Without moving out from home, we all traveled around the world in video conferences and messaging systems, which reduced the space to a near zero experience.

That said, imagine how much the humanity changed in the past 3 years!

I dare to say that we navigated 30 years or so into the future, and had the chance to do it for real, not science fiction like the movie Interstelar. Was it fiction by the way?

Along this compressed time, I had the pleasure to live intensively with a group of beautiful souls in a community called ExI - Exponential Individuals.

Out of many activities, conversations, knowledge sharing, writing, co-creations, deep reflections on how the human being causes the transformation around and inside, a book, which I have the honor to co-author with 17 brilliant friends, was collectively written and published on April 27th, 2023. The Exponential Individual Playbook, as the first outcome to the world on how to live the community's MTP, Massive Transformative Purpose:

Making self-awareness, human optimization and collective betterment universal.

Today, after reading the first book review posted on Amazon, I realized that the transformation toward ExI's moonshot of impacting 1 billion people by 2040 just started. For real!

If you want to be part of the group, either transforming yourself, or moving to the next step transforming others, which we call going from ME to WE, or from EGO to We-GO, take your time to read the book available HERE.

To save you some time an motivate you more, I just copied the first book review bellow. Enjoy the ride!!!

"After I read Exponential Organizations, I found a common theme throughout it that I could sum up with one word – growth. Simply put, by using its described principals and mindset an organization can experience exponential growth.

Based on that book and an organization that formed from it, OpenExO, a cohort of people from around the world formed their own organization centered on people. Exponential Individuals, or ExI, in my humble opinion is also about growth, but not exactly in the same way an organization would grow. An Exponential Individual grows more inward, deeper and outward.

The Exponential Individual Playbook was written by members of ExI and presents its own approach on how to be your best. In addition to the thoughtful advice throughout the book I also had some takeaways, including:

Put the oxygen mask on yourself first – This advice has been something I often tell others, whether on an airplane or not. It meant so much to the Playbook authors that they put it on the back cover. Doing so doesn’t make you selfish, and if anything, it strengthens you so that you can better help yourself and others.

MVS – Standing for Minimum Viable Standard, it was mentioned in the Playbook as the lower end of the range that defines you, with the high end being the ideal or optimal you. I thought this was a unique way of thinking about it – we always think the high-end but forget there is always a low-end that we may be starting from or may fall to. Compare this to MVP, or minimum viable product in the Agile/Scrum world, it is the least of you that you will accept. All things considered, the least in itself may not be all that bad.

Antifragile – This is defined as “representing things that benefit from disorder.” This is another phrase I am keeping in mind as I deal with disorder throughout my days.

Ego vs. We-Go – This reminded me of the expression that a rising tide lifts all boats. This is focus on the collective rather than on just yourself and is a theme throughout the book for making the best you and as a result the best of the world around you.

Eighteen authors – The Playbook was written by 18 different people which in my mind is a feat in itself! Each chapter lists its authors, which can range from 1 to many. To get them to write in a common approach and for each chapter to flow into the next as well as they did is an example in itself of being an Exponential Individual."

"The Exponential Individual Playbook is a motivating guide that centers around the “soft” skills and elements of life often we (ok, I) overlook. As you go through the book there are exercises to complete, which I am going to do on a second pass through the book, as it’s good to read it first cover-to-cover. If you’re interested in a holistic approach to making a better you, I recommend the Playbook."