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Changing the World by Changing Yourself

If we mean what we say, we will inevitably change the world. The world is made from interconnected and interrelated people, ideas, and places. Communication is the glue and the interface of what it is that you call the world. Moments of belonging, inspiration, and collaboration are moments of communication. When we offer an abstract idea, we offer an opportunity for a better future and seek the space to meet someone else in thinking. It is an interpersonal moment, as it is an economic one. The promise of a better future, which happens in tandem with self-actualization (of myself and the people around me), embodies generative value and organic (sustainable) system change.

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