Brett A McCall

Athlete, Business leader, Consultant, Filmmaker, Idea generator, Parent, Producer, Sales specialist, Technologist, World traveler, Writer/Editor

🐙👾 I navigate the world in ways that other people might call strange, or nonconformist, or even risky. 👽🤖 Through years of studying how other people meet their desires, I’ve found that my mind runs in patterns that are... different. It is easy for me to think of this as a handicap. But once I began to embrace what I call my “chaotic magical awareness,” I realized that my natural aptitude for wonder and play can benefit both individuals and organizations — simply by my ability to bring out “weirdo” qualities in others. This is why they call me: Abundance Magician✨. Chaos Weaver🌻. Muscle Mover💪🏽. Game Keeper🕹️. Redesigning Communication → A lot of the problems that plague people and organizations are also crippling to me. For example, when I’m under stress I gravitate towards a results-focused approach (an attempt to control or predict outcomes) rather than remaining connected. In other words, I stop listening. Learning to recognize and manage this tendency in myself led me to a problem that many people believe is impossible to solve: How can one remain present while under stress? It can be done. Through wonder and play. The Play Solution → When I am with others, exploring the world from a lens of play, anything seems possible. Unfortunately, the world doesn’t work that way all or even most of the time. We live in an age in which functionality and hard work are placed at such a premium that `work’ often becomes bad work, and functionality itself suffers. (This paradox is lost on much of the business world. Organizations and corporations are only slowly waking up to the idea that “functionality” may not always look like a person working on a spreadsheet.) I realized long ago that almost anything that brings me back into the present moment will help return me to a creative and cooperative flow. A game🎱, hacky sack🦶🏼, throwing a disc🥏, making music🎹 — all of these are much more powerful tools than one might think. In addition to conventional play, for many years I have been using game design to solve “real-world” problems (be they individual, relational, societal, or environmental). My version of game design does not mean writing code. It means figuring out, preferably in a group, how to turn a problem into a puzzle, and then into a game. If this works, then overwhelment vanishes, and “players” (a.k.a people) are empowered enough to feel around the rough edges of a problem, perhaps for the first time. They’re on their way to making actual change. 🎲I play every day, it keeps my brain from the numb.. join me in game as "sheepsknuckles".🎲

Discovery and Peace through Authentic Stories Nuerodiversity!

for a while now i've been dreaming up a movement—a daily pause to remember where we stand… here on this ground—at 8:28 am and pm, connecting with the moment fully and bringing ourselves to the land together... (in our case the 828 areacode but this is intended to be inclusive). calling it the 828movement—a simple connecting the pattern between time and areacode. t}{e movement is all about resilience, strength, community. its a ritual–celebration–remembering of all things 828... #828strong #828presence #828resilience #828isgreat #828movement t}{e ritual takes place at 8:28am and 8:28pm—wherever you are—grounding yourself with the earth beneath your feet, taking a deep breath—finding yourself being there—and remembering where you are...on the ground together we stand! in this pause we fill our attention with more and more of whats right here 828 right now 828 in these special moments of presents. #828movement [original post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DA88pdxRQZk/] shape this with me! how you imagine this could create the change we see and want to manifest?

Business & Technology, Business Development, Game and Film Design, Innovation, Metaverse, Methods and Techniques, Networking and Relationship Building, Sales and Marketing Strategy, Storytelling, Technolgy Education, Virtual Reality

It started with my friend Dallas who used to live here in Asheville. He told me about Jill Bolte Taylor's talk on TED right after he set up my Mac with all kinds of cool bells and whistles. Dallas has since moved to Austin, TX but I continue to call him for technical insight and new ideas!! After watching Jill's speech I searched and began the discovery of all the amazing ideas at TED.com In the winter of 2009, Jennifer Saylor contacted me through Twitter to find out if I would help with the production of the first TEDxAsheville. It was a quick response because of my interest in TED and my commitment to contributing to productions that actually cause change in the world!! One day, I would like to communicate my ideas worth sharing on a TED stage.

Handstands, cooking, massage, soccer, rapidly learning new skills, life drawing, and designing ideas for better living.