Chasing Water

At the Impossible Stories, we love people who fervently and determinedly chase their quests.

At a recent leadership event, surrounded by people living their impossibles, we came across Mina Guli, CEO of Thirst.

We were immediately struck by the intense, almost single-minded focus she had on her quest...

She didn’t just work to save water from 9-5 on weekdays, or when she was in the mood, but in every single moment of life. Many people can be passionate in advocating their opinions or their businesses or themselves, but Mina operates from an entirely different level of belief and obsessive commitment to her impossible: solving the water crisis.

And using this energy, she’s the first person we’ve come across who’s created a real social platform in a relatively short period of time with very little acknowledged expertise. In fact, Mina’s primary focus isn’t on being an expert or creating a solution, but on being the platform by which solutions, experts and the world can come together to solve the issue of water.

As at the Impossible, we are also a platform by which extraordinary stories are shared and celebrated, we connected deeply with Mina’s role. While at times such absolute, consuming focus can be frustrating or irritating for those not involved with a personal mission, as it can cause the quester to become single-minded to the point of detrimentally ignoring the potentially useful opinions of others, to do the impossible on the largest scale requires beyond 100% commitment and faith in the outcome.

And while Mina’s passion tended to dominate this panel discussion, to the disadvantage of perhaps hearing more about other dreams and loves, we can’t help but be inspired by such confidence in the impossible, and we hope you do to. Which is why we contacted Mina to be interviewed by the Impossible and to share some of the remarkable journeys she’s been on during her quest so far…

Aside from the usual questions we ask our impossibles, we’ve got a few more topics we’d like to discuss with Mina.

Firstly, we’d like to understand how she built her social platform and exactly how she manages to engage the global community in her own quest. For questers involved in community impossibles, we’re sure you’d love to know this too, as inspiring and influencing others can, at times, be both frustrating and challenging.

People don’t tend to share passions, which is a beautiful thing as it contributes to our uniqueness, but when you’d love some collaboration and collective movement, this can become a ginormous hurdle.

We’d also enjoy discovering whether her platform is actually creating real change in the water crisis. It’s one thing to zealously advocate and bring awareness to people, and another thing entirely to inspire those people to such a degree that they change their pre-existing, set habits. We wonder whether the solutions she recommends are actually taken up by the community or whether she finds that people just go home and forget all about water in the comfort of their hot showers and easy tap water.

We guess you’ll find her opinion on these topics after we interview her…

Until then, keep chasing and choosing the impossible, and don't forget to send us your stories!!

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