The Legacy Mindset™
The Power of Reflecting on Mortality to Turn Fear of Failure Into the Courage to Create and Connect.
YOUR GOAL
We all want the courage to express and create, to connect and lead, so
our lives can have meaning.
YOUR PROBLEM
Held back by fear, we are blocked in our creativity and reaching for
connection.
- What will people think?
- What if I fail?
- I might be criticized
- And that’s enough to stop the flow. To never learn the language, make the friend at work, kiss the girl, go to the ball, travel to that place, raise that idea at work, write that book.
THE TRUTH
Nothing makes us grateful and fearless like a legacy mindset.
How will my future self feel about this? What choices would my future self want me to have made now?
It’s the perspective that time is short—and therefore precious.
When we remember this, we become freer to create, connect, reach out, and lead—both at home and at work.
And there are timeless tools to “remember”: as Steve Jobs put it, and as philosophers from Greek Stoic, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, and many other traditions have taught.
These are the ways we remind ourselves into perspective and gratitude.
THE CHANGE
Instead of worrying about all that could go wrong, we can train ourselves in the perspective of what our future selves would care about, in 20 years from now or even toward the end, and we can import that legacy mindset into the present so we can be bold and take action. It works!
ACTION
Cameron shares personal stories and draws from his experience building meaning for people at the end of life (and writing a book about walking his mother to the other side, in Ordinary Magic), his study and writings on the world’s wisdom traditions, science-backed tools of positivity, the resilience required to start (and often fail) in 12 startups, and 20 years of coaching people into their best selves to teach audiences the stories techniques of bravening – ways to remind ourselves into courage, perspective, and gratitude.
In The Bravening™, Cameron teaches audiences:
How to build their Legacy Mindset muscles
How to Turn Fear into Fuel, and transform hesitation into momentum.
How greater purpose can get us into the Flow state of innovation and productivity
How to build resilience against the little deaths of failure, rejection, and criticism – so they can innovate and play
Empowering a Legacy Mindset
Cameron's Bravening™ Toolkit
Cameron gives audiences tools tested by both science and the world’s wisdom traditions to empower them to toggle into a legacy mindset at will: in brief moments of reflecting on how short our time here really is, in the moments of clarity and gratitude for others and our lives and work that follow, and in visualizations of our future selves that thrust us into the higher perspective that bravens us against failure and rejection. The tools for courage and clarity Cameron shares are part of his Bravening™ Toolkit.
Why Cameron is the Man to Give
This Kind of Speech:
Cameron is prolific. Inhales information, ruminates on, muses on, and processes it, and thinks of ways of expressing it. In writing, speaking, posting, and during a phase some years ago, in karaoke. These strengths all make for better public speaking.
But for much of his career Cameron wasn’t willing to risk publishing most of the countless articles, essays, and other writings he researched and wrote. His fears limited his strengths.
His story of learning the ways to braven himself to our often paralyzing fear of being seen or criticized is central to his ability to show audiences how to braven themselves.
He also has invaluable experience coaching hundreds of people, one-on one, in how to go beyond their fears.
But he’s also helped other people with their sense of meaning at the end of life. He developed a passion for helping people make meaning: in their jobs, their career brands and their relationships, and as they grow into the wisdom that we don’t have all the time in the world. That it’s precisely because life is so short that we have no choice but to seize the day — if we can only keep reminding ourselves.
And in so many ways, Cameron’s life and work have shown us how to memento mori, or remember death, so that we may really live. Perhaps the most well-known and beloved example is his love story at the end of life, Ordinary Magic . . .