When I was a young businessman from Oklahoma, I used to yearn to talk with someone starkly different from me.  Maybe, it was that I was raised in a small town where you run into every type of person at the grocery store.  Maybe, it was the vanilla-ness of everyone seeming the same -- the same suit, the same education, the same viewpoints...
In a gasp for some contrast, I joined a group promoting local art.  This was a reach.  My fine business degree at Oklahoma State was not a grand introduction to liberal arts nor art.  Nevertheless, with some degree of initial awkwardness, I learned to chat with artists.  It was marvelously refreshing to visit with someone inhabiting such a different life than mine.
Not long ago, I was a speaker at a First Tee event in Salt Lake City.  At the silent auction, I bought a lunch with Utah's Poet Laureate.  And, yes, I was the ONLY one to bid on that particular item...  It reminded me of those early days. 
Each week, I try to visit with someone from a particular industry that I want to learn about.  Most say yes when I ask.  Some are too busy with urgent matters.  Some think it a bit odd that someone wants to visit with them without selling them something.  Yet, from these conversation, I meet the poets of "composites" or areospace or fabrication or motocross or monetizing sports brands.  
I always want to be thinking, "When is the last time, I visited with someone different..."
Now at Bellallura, we ask, "When was the last time that you took a Bold & Audacious New Step...