Teddy Zareva

"Explore how much you can tolerate people who are different from you. Remind each other not to confude feeling strongly with being right."

"Most people do not #listen with the intent to #understand; they listen with the intent to reply." - Steven Covey If we truly want to hear another person, we need to focus all our attention on them; what they say, what they feel and need at that moment. #ListenLoudly

A new democratic institution in action - the world's first permanent Citizen's Assembly!

“To have high self-esteem is to feel *confidently appropriate to life*. Competent to cope with the basic challenges of life and worthy of happiness.” - Nathaniel Branden

Want to feel a little more connected with humanity? Follow the link. You'll see the entire earth. Each green dot is a local radio station. Touch the dot, hear what locals are hearing right now. It's oddly overwhelming. radio.garden/live #radiogarden @clever_together

"For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment, and to call each thing by its right name. By its right name." - Christopher McCandless quoting Boris Pasternak

Soul food.

Digital for Deliberation: new article w/ @ClaudiaChwalisz on main questions to explore. 1. How can digital tools support deliberative processes? 2. What are the limits of using digital tools? 3. In what other contexts could these learnings be applied? medium.com/participo/how-…

Beautiful and heartbreaking video. An incredibly meaningful project: vimeo.com/396225186

Reminded of this today... In search of #truth

"Everybody’s income was affected by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.... but men’s income returned to what they had made pre-outbreak faster than women’s income.” The distorting effects of an epidemic can last for years. theatlantic.com/international/…

"The dominant groups always tend to be conservative and always tend to define the existing inequality as being natural ... But, in practice, what you see is something very different." Thomas Piketty on his latest book 'Capital and Ideology' ces.fas.harvard.edu/news/2020/03/h…

Reading "Eastern Body, Western Mind", where Anodea Judith interestingly observes that across Western Culture, our prevailing relational myth is that of the broken home. On a mythological, archetypal level, we are children of divorce:

Seriously, what would you ask and who?

@clever_together How would you redefine what a just world looks like?

If you could host a massive conversation with thousands of people, right now, what BIG QUESTION would you ask and why?

Word.

Everybody should watch this youtube.com/watch?v=gxAaO2…

Let's hope we have the right ideas lying around.

‘Helping someone through difficulty is where civilization starts’ said Mead. We are at our best when we serve others. Be civilized.” -

Lack of unity, cooperation, trust and leadership on a global level - the most pressing problems to solve if we want a resilient humanity without authoritarian regimes. edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2020…