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Public benefit, social-political interactions, change management, critical thinking, discourse analysis, international affairs, security studies, brain research, healthy lifestyle, crossing mountains

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Environmentaliy... problems cannot be solved with the same level of thinking that created them

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  A reply on Talk: Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action

  May 8 2010: Asher, I agree with you that people "buy" both "why and "what".But what Simon Sinek is saying with the second part of the talk (11min on) is that it is those 25% (who buy the "why") who are the tipping point that can make a product immensely successful when competition has the same (or even better) conditions.
  
  The industry examples are definitely biased and would not necessarily agree with his conclusions about mass consumer behaviour, before asking more questions. However, I "bought" his argument, especially when applied to small groups of people (think about employees' motivation for instance). This may be enough to buy his book.

• A comment on Talk: Mike deGruy: Hooked by an octopus

  Apr 17 2010: So much love and passion from this Talk - amazing !
  As a political scientist, I find the last 2 mins particularly powerful. Empowering local communities and individuals, giving them the tools to go out and fix wrongdoings in their immediate environments is a very noble cause. Nothing is stronger than a well-informed local grass-root community guided by the love for the neighbour and the vision how to make things better.
  I think environemntal movements are another chance for democracy in a decade when democracy is continuously experiencing downfalls and failures even in Western Europe and the US.
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  A reply on Talk: James Geary, metaphorically speaking

  Mar 26 2010: dont whether it was exactly budhist, but to me it seemed like a history movie about colonization or some recent resource wars in a different settings
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  A comment on Talk: Gordon Brown on global ethic vs. national interest

  Feb 28 2010: apart from all said so far, it seems to me, there is underlying logic in what Brown is saying: EUROCENTRISM. The ideas he discusses (and he made a good point indeed) are so truly European and expansionist. Applying our own logic elsewhere and calling our logic universal.
  
  There is hardly anything more humane than helping people that you are in no way related to, and it that sense we all have a tremendous responsibility to act consciously at all times and at all costs. But creating institutions like IMF, UN, WB and so one which skew the balance of power so ruthlessly is something completely different.
  
  Brown talks about technology, but technology itself does not change the euro-centric way of thinking that has governed our foreign affairs in the past centuries. Centuries of oppression, empires, total control and brainwashing propaganda.
  
  His ideas are Nobel, but dressed in a truly European and (i believe) profoundly mistaken way to think about the world.