Most people have the innate wanting to be apart of something larger than themselves. A way to give back and improve quality of life for themselves as well as those around them.
I find myself at this point right now! I want to be apart of something large than I. Not in a bragging fashion I know that I’m a fairly bright individual with so many ideas on topics such as business, education, and how to improve my community/world. I’ve been reading a fabulous little book, "We Are Smarter Than Me" by Barry Libert & Jon Spector
I’ve realized a couple of issues there with me having ideas…
First, I am only one person. As a single unit, an individual, I am limited to what I can do in the time I am awake in a days.
Second, there are millions of people out there like me! People around the world have absolutely brilliant ideas, but like me they run into an issue they are one single individual. Its difficult, not impossible, to get your voice heard as an individuals, but now imagine get 10 people shouting the same thing. That reaches out to another 5 people. Now there are 15 people shouting. Naturally the more people shouting the louder they will be heard.
Third, I am a smart fellow, but not the smartest. This was humbling, but in the same sense extremely encouraging! While I may not be the smartest, I still have value ideas and I come from a different viewpoint that some other people because of my upraising, technical background, friends, personal experiences, place I’ve visited, etc… Think of it as everyone has a story, some similar and others totally opposite. Different places, characters, timeframes, education, but thus everyone still has a story. This story affects the way they approach problem solving.
THIS IS THE POWER OF A COMMUNITY. A community can makes social changed faster that any one individual.
This has provoked me to start planning a community of contagious discussion to hopefully impact the world’s food issues, medicals problems, energy crisis, and the faulty educational systems.
I , myself , can’t do this myself, but WE can! If you are interested in helping please leave a comment hear and we will connect and we can discuss how we are going to do this.
I have known Barry for many years, both personally and professionally. While I was not at the conference (in fact have not actually heard him speak in about 8 or 9 years) I know that this core message of his was there long before there what we now know as social networks. Barry’s take has always been that Business IS Personal. New technologies just make the power of the individual and an individual’s ability to network, much more powerful.
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