David Hood

Deborah Frieze explains the “two loops,” Berkana Institute’s perspective on systems change.

We believe that the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better is by making it fun to do. We call it The fun theory. http://www.thefuntheory.com

This is the Game of We.

Top 10 Mistakes in Behavior Change

from Stanford Persuasive Tech Lab

The Living Principles for Design framework is a catalyst for driving positive cultural change. It distills the four streams of sustainability – environment, people, economy, and culture – into a roadmap that is understandable, integrated, and most importantly, actionable. Designers, business leaders, and educators can use The Living Principles to guide every decision, every day.

Every revolution begins from the bottom up. Fed up with the status quo? Tired of the 20th century? Then don’t just talk about it. Reject it and refuse it. Build a better 21st century instead.

Real change doesn’t begin with governments, presidents, or prime ministers. It begins with each of us. In the 20th century, never-ending mass-marketing, monopoly, and mega-politics came together to convince us, each and every one, that we’re not really free: just free enough to choose between different flavors of the same old toxic junk. It was a trick, a ploy, a television hallucination. We’re the freest people in history. It’s time to use it like we meant it.

One of history’s greatest builders once said: “be the change you want to see in the world”. Let me update Gandhi’s wisdom for the next decade. Want a revolution? Be the revolution you want to see in the world.

So what can you do? Here are eight ways to kick start betterness:…

The complete Betterness Manifesto, by Umair Haque at the Harvard Business Review.

From Human Ventures

Manifesto

we are compassionate
we are diverse
we are creative
we are purposeful
we are hopeful
we are enquiring

we are advocates
we are innovators
we are enablers
we are custodians

we are connected

we are HUMAN.

We live in a time, more than any other time in history, with broad prosperity and longevity of life.
We live in a time, more than any other time in history, where people have access to the tools and resources to have a voice and to be heard.

We live in an age of global information and communication, yet people are increasingly more isolated, and family breakdown is on the rise.

People are working longer hours and face increasing rates of depression, and poor mental health.
Faceless entities and globalisation deliver products and services on demand, yet little is being invested back into communities and there is limited connection with the people and ecosystems that ensure our standards of living are maintained.

Our environment and natural resources are under significant strain.
The rich are getting richer, yet the poor remain very poor.

We need positive change.

“The biggest disease today is… the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for, and deserted by everybody. The greatest evil is the lack of love and charity, the terrible indifference toward one’s neighbour.”¹

By diminishing others, we diminish ourselves.
It is not enough to be tolerant.
It is not enough to do no harm.

In 2008, researchers proved the theory that on average we are bound to everyone on this planet by a trail of little more than 6 people.² This understanding exists as more than a gimmick or a social experiment.

We realise we are part of something bigger than ourselves and that “the only way we can ever be human is together”.³

We strive for a new paradigm that considers and encourages social, economic, cultural and environmental benefits in all human activity.
We actively uphold and seek to realise the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Convention on the Rights of the Child.

We take our passion, skills and networks and give them expression in all areas of our life.

We use our creativity to challenge, to question, to reinvent, to discover new solutions to old and emerging problems.

We use our powers for good, not evil (or indifference).

We work to equip and empower the vulnerable, poor, unheard, and under-valued.

We share the stories that need to be told.
Not the syndicated and dehumanizing violence, mayhem, crime and objectification fed to us through ‘popular’ media. Rather, the stories that dispel myths, communicate ideas, educate, enlighten, heal and unite.

We harness the power of creativity to positively change people’s lives.
Not just to sell more stuff to more people.

We harness the power of entrepreneurship as an agent of community benefit and to redress disadvantage.

We actively promote and equip people, initiatives and services that enrich humanity and create a better future for all.

We endorse this manifesto and seek to share its desire for peace and hope.

Footnotes:
¹ Mother Teresa
² The Guardian, 3 August 2008
³ The Most Reverend Desmond M. Tutu

How cognitive surplus will change the world

Clay Shirky believes that new technologies enabling loose ­collaboration — and taking advantage of “spare” brainpower — will change the way society works.

Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us ~ Dan Pink

How complexity leads to simplicity…

In just three-and-a-half minutes Eric Berlow illustrates perfectly that “complex doesn’t always equal complicated” and that with the right approach to data, patterns, insights and solutions can emerge to issues previously regarded as complicated.

What is Thrivability?

In early 2010, seventy authors submitted their perspectives on the values, qualities, cycles, and actions that comprise Thrivability.

RSA Animate: The Empathic Civilisation ~ Jeremy Rifkin

Bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society.

Within a single generation, digital media and the World Wide Web have transformed virtually every aspect of modern culture, from the way we learn and work to the ways in which we socialize and even conduct war. But is the technology moving faster than we can adapt to it? And is our 24/7 wired world causing us to lose as much as we’ve gained?

In Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier, FRONTLINE presents an in-depth exploration of what it means to be human in a 21st-century digital world. 

With Douglas Rushkoff.

Psychologists have been studying how we try to influence each other for many years. I’ve been covering some highlights of this research, which are collected here.

dheydon:

3 simple rules

One day. Imagine… :)

do. fail. learn. expand into greater possibility…

from icanread.tumblr.com

Nice. :)

karmaplus:

“Our story is the story of the universe. Every piece of everyone, of everything you love and everything you hate, of the thing you hold most precious, was assembled by the forces of nature in the first few minutes of the life of the universe, transformed in the hearts of the stars or created in their fiery deaths.

And when you die, those pieces will be returned to the universe in the endless cycle of death and rebirth. What a wonderful thing it is to be part of that universe. And what a story, what a majestic story.”

Professor Brian Cox, Wonders of the Universe.

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life…..” ~ Steve Jobs

Original post

This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.

Walt Whitman (via girlwithoutwings)

Our evolving sense of self (connecting the dots with data) - Gary Wolf [TEDTalk]

“The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.”

~ Henry Ford

10knotes:

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“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.” ~ Mark Twain

The Heart of Innovation: 21 Awesome Quotes on Intuition
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“It is through sci­ence that we prove, but through intu­ition that we discover.” - Henri Poin­care

“Intu­ition becomes increas­ing­ly valu­able in the new infor­ma­tion soci­ety pre­cise­ly because there is so much data.” - John…

Got a feeling you’ll like this one… ;)