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Cécile M Profile picture
Cécile M
@cecile_mcm
renewal of self, organisations and society • building a better future • on sabbatical from the business world • strategy • visual thinking • neuroscience •
Nov 12, 2022 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
I’ve just finished @david_perell’s online writing course Write of Passage

imo this course sets a new standard on what good teaching looks like: the quality, thoughtfulness and energy with which the course was designed and delivered blew my mind

here’s what worked well for me 1/ excellent stories and writing frameworks

the team has been iterating on those stories and frameworks for years now, using student feedback as a driver for improvement—and it shows!

I’ll share the POP framework here as a teaser:
perell.com/note/pop-writi…
Nov 3, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
I feel really excited by this idea

I’m strongly considering writing a mini e-book (10-15,000 words) on my sabbatical, linking up ideas I’ve already shared and adding some more in there that I haven’t shared yet

is this something some of you would want to read? the early signs that I was bound to end up going on a sabbatical (despite not consciously seeing it as something I might do just yet)

how I made the decision (the battle between my head and my heart)
Sep 5, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
i’ve been on sabbatical from the corporate world for a bit more than 7 months now (out of 12) and I clocked a couple of weeks ago that I had changed so much that I wouldn’t be able to go back to doing exactly what I was doing before

the person I used to be doesn’t exist anymore for the past 2 months, I’ve gone to sleep at 22:00 (latest), woken up at 06:00 and started every single day with an hour of exercise and a swim in the pool (Bali 🙏)

very different from my old morning routine which I had shortened to just 30 mins to maximise sleep
May 13, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Turns out that taking a break from your job and uprooting yourself from your home to 'go figure out what you want to do next' will not magically tell you what your next step should be. How surprising.

I'm almost 4 months in now, and I'm nowhere near having a useful answer. One thing I have learned though is that making space for new thoughts and feelings to emerge is not enough for new thoughts and feelings to actually emerge in me.

Nothing emerges if I am not consciously creating a structured and relaxed environment for myself to live in...
Apr 24, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I started a year-long sabbatical last Feb after a decade of (intense) work. No plans apart from a few months in Mexico; the aim was to see what would emerge from having more time and energy to use on things other than work.

I’ll be collecting thoughts on the experience here 🌱 1/ Making the decision to go on a sabbatical was a journey in itself.