“In 1974, I found it difficult to teach elegant theories of economics in the university classroom, in the backdrop of a terrible famine in Bangladesh. Suddenly, I felt the emptiness of those theories in the face of crushing hunger and poverty. I wanted to do something immediate to help people around me, even if it was just one human being, to get through another day with a little more...
Read MoreListen to this conversation with Kevin Koym, a visionary entrepreneur here in Austin, who believes that entrepreneurs are the revolutionaries who will solve the world’s problems. This is the first in a series of conversations we’ll be having with Austin visionaries, who are coming together to create a radically different future than the one we’re headed towards now. A future...
Read MoreThere’s something special about music… the way it can pull you into a whole new world, a new paradigm, a new context–instantly! Musical artists have always been at the forefront of change, evolution and revolution, painting a view of past, present and future that calls people to take the actions necessary to create a new future. On my trip to Kenya last summer, the kids in a...
Read More“In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.” – Eric Hoffer The Visionary Mind is not just a continually learning mind, but a mind not organized around psychological positions. Anyone can continually learn within the walls of their positions. The Nazi, the Roman...
Read MoreTalk, talk, talk and more talk. Everyone talks about change. Like the armchair quarterbacks, they’re usually talking from the sidelines of life, gossipping, criticizing and complaining about what everyone else is doing or not doing. Yet there are two main differences between the armchair quarterback watching football and a well-meaning person being a spectator in today’s world. 1)...
Read MoreWill you be in the Austin, TX area this coming weekend? Then come join us, Sunday afternoon, January 14th. Details are here.
Read MoreHow can you see what your “enemy” is saying at such a level that you have the power to call them to stand with you? This seemingly impossible task is not only possible, it’s quite simple…
Read MoreA First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army has taken a stand. Ehren Watada, a 28-year-old Hawaii native, faces a court martial next month and up to 6 years in prison. He is the first commissioned officer in U.S. to publicly refuse deployment to Iraq.
Many of his peers call him a traitor and a coward. Others think he’s anything but that. It’s easy to take a position on this young man’s decision, and that’s one of the fundamental problems with the world we live in. Actually, the problem lies within our methods of thinking, our consciousness. Yesterday’s consciousness is insufficient for…
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