Maeda's SIMPLICITY

And the Winner is ...

All I got was a cookie.

I emcee-ed the National Design Awards last night. It was quite a glamorous affair that was a quintessential "New York evening." Perhaps the most exciting moment was before the ceremony when I spent some time with Martha Stewart whose daughter Alexis was one of the awards presenters. I oddly felt like my hands had pushed past the glass facade of the television screen.

Awards ceremonies are complex because there is the perception that if there are winners, there are losers. Winning is fun; losing is hard. Win too much and your head gets fat; lose too much and your heart goes flat. Winning and losing aside, by far the hardest thing to do is show up for the game at all. We who choose to compete, in life and happiness, are all winners.

Posted by maeda at October 21, 2005 01:31 PM