Core Question
How do we create an environment where EVERYONE can engage meaningfully in dialogue to increase shared understanding and improve critical thinking?
Changes inspired by core question
- We need to hear and listen to things that make us profoundly uncomfortable
- We need to put ourselves more in other people’s shoes
- We need to make more of an effort to be less selfish, giving our time and intellect
- We need to come back to the core idea of community rather than individualism
- We need to radically change the way we approach education
- We need to help people become comfortable with uncertainty
- We need to stop rewarding only those who have the right answer and help people accept not knowing
Questions to disrupt thinking
- Do our ideals get in the way of our ability to live with reality?
- Do we want to get to the perfect political system?
- Are you sure that this is the right way forward? How do you know?
- What are you, personally, going to do to change the narrative?
- Is this for the benefit of everyone or for few?
- Are you trying to benefit you or the world?
- Is what you are about to do, worth the opportunity cost?
