I love it when I learn something really fascinating and new, and particularly when I can take inspiration from what I have learned and apply it to the world of entrepreneurship. I recently attended a webinar by the renowned neuroscientist Daniel Levitin on the subject of The Changing Mind and Ageing Well. It was a really insightful session and I gained some interesting learnings - it certainly made me stop and think. But one particular example he used during his presentation really captured my imagination. He talked about an incredible creature I had never heard of before, the ‘Axoltl’ - do look it up, you will be fascinated too I am sure. It is an endangered species of salamander which has the extraordinary superpower of being able to regenerate itself, to literally regrow whole parts of its body that have been damaged, meaning it can go on to survive and thrive. As a result scientists are studying this creature very closely and have decoded its genome in 2018 (it was found to be 10 times larger than the human genome) in the hope that we may one day be able to harness this regenerative superpower for ourselves. This got me thinking about how, as women entrepreneurs, we need to tap into our own superpower of regeneration to rebuild, redesign, relaunch our businesses when we go through the inevitable difficult times. We also need to understand that such times may mean that we need to lose one part of the business in order to let another part thrive. So if you need a little inspiration, look no further than the little ‘Axoltl’.
Have yourself an inspired entrepreneurial day! — Melanie