Latest Unthinking - February

Welcome to the Latest Unthinking newsletter, February edition!🤘🏼

614 words, 3 parts and 2.5 mins of your time.🚀

1. Tell me something new!

2. Dirt track mindset

3. Highlights

Chat GPTs quick summary of today’s newsletter:

“Dr. Adrienne Milner, The DEI Doc, invites you to F*ck Up Friday’s on March 8th to share your cringey DEI moments. It's like therapy, but funnier and with less judgment. In a quest for candy fame, Oliver Chase ditched his lozenge dreams to become America's first candy man. Now, in the midst of relationship chaos, his love hearts are adapting to Gen Z's 'situationships’”

Enjoy!

Tell me something new

F*ck up Fridays: Erasing the DEI fear.

We all have our own F*ck Ups.

They’re like mental scars.

Memories that you just can’t shake.

Like where you stalled the car when learning to drive, or that ropey hotel you booked because it was cheap.

F*ck ups go into that category. Cringey to think about, embarrassing to share, but you only make that mistake once.

F*ck up Friday’s exist to extract the learning from those awkward memories. On 8th March, Dr Adrienne Milner (Unthink’s Director of DEI & Insights, or as we call her, The DEI Doc), will be joined by a special guest to share their biggest DEI F*ck Ups…

It’s 45 mins, hosted on Zoom and you can register your attendance here.

You’re welcome to join, and even share your F*ck ups too. The more shared, the more we learn.

Who do you know that might be interested to join?

Dirt track mindset

It’s a love story.

The story of tomorrow’s most popular confectionary. The love heart.

In 1847, Oliver Chase was desperate for a way to make Lozenges. The medicinal sweets were becoming incredibly popular to cure sore throats and bad breath, and he wanted a slice of the pie.

The process was laborious and time consuming, and Chase was determined to find a better way. He designed a machine that rolled the lozenge dough and pressed sheets into perfect discs. This was to be America’s first candy making machine.

Realising the potential to make mass market sweets, Chase ditched the Lozenge dream and went all in on sweets.

In 1866 he figured out how to print messages on sweets using vegetable dye. In 1902 the heart shapes were created, albeit with slightly more direct messages:

“How long shall I have to wait? Please be considerate.”

This year, the candy maker is keeping up with trends and releasing ‘situationship’ hearts.

For those non-Gen-Z readers, that’s a relationships without exclusivity, boundaries or labels. Think Love Island.

Highlights

⚡We’re having some fun planning our Unthink summer Experience… It will be even better than the last one 🤯

⚡Our Spring Women’s Leadership Experience (WLX) begins at the end of April and we still have spaces… You can reply directly to this email to pick up a conversation about it.

⚡Not like Unthink to poke fun at the big 4 is it?

⚡Fancy following Unthink on ANOTHER platform? Yeah, of course you do. Check out some more BTS content on our Instagram page including a reel on our latest team day.

🔄 ICYMI: Our last five Unthinking Thursdays 💡:

💡Communication, the richest art of all?

💡Dismiss mediocrity and pursue the spectacular.

💡Vulnerability: when does it just become outright narcissism? If we're going to emotionally vomit, let's cut the BS and just own it.

💡Flexible work is a competitive necessity: Why and how to bend your rules.

💡Everyone is obsessed with counting, and it’s become really, really, boring.

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See you again in March!

Team Unthink 🫶