If I teach other people how to see the world my way, each one of them will be rich enough in human values to mutually-enrich all the others.Photo by: Ramunas Geciauskas
If I am a lizard and a fly lands on my extended tongue – a common reptilian “hunting” strategy – I got me some lunch. One munch, no share for you even if I was the sharing kind.
If I’m a predatory mammal, I may bring home the family-sized gazelle, but there is no possible way for me to feed more than a few.
But since ideas scale, if I am a human being, I can learn to feed millions, as many brilliant men have done again and again in human history.
But ideas scale yet again from even that cornucopian abundance: If I teach others what I know, they will feed billions.
And scaling yet again, if I teach other people how to see the world my way, each one of them will be rich enough in human values to mutually-enrich all the others.
I think that’s the most wonderful thing about us, and the fact that we are able to communicate abstract ideas at all, which no other organism can do, is proof of its wonderfulness.
I talked about the scalability of ideas, among a host of other other ideas about empathy, with Steve Mayeda in a podcast promoting The 21 Convention’s upcoming Tampa show, at which I will be speaking:
I was full to bursting with the empathy for the idea, with the result that I end up out-talking the normally very-loquacious Mayeda by about nine to one. I cover a lot of ground, if that’s any consolation.
I took up some of these ideas at Sunday’s Church of Splendor telecast under the theme of “Free the Earth Seven Billion.”
The Grand Unifying Theory of Human Motivation – as taught to me by a turtle, and by an eternally-outraged human reptile.To read more about empathy, see me, feel me, touch me, heal me at Amazon.com.
Don’t have a Kindle? You don’t need one. If you have a smartphone, a tablet or a desktop or laptop computer, there’s a free Kindle app for your hardware. Download and install it, and than you can snag the book for free.
I would love it if I could give away a million (or seven billion!) free books. I don’t do this for money, and there’s no money in it anyway. But I desperately want for people to do better with their lives, and the way that will happen is by engaging them with better ideas.
What can one person do? Take that question to Socrates. Here’s what you can do:
1. Snag the book while it’s free – and then read it.
2. Tell you friends to do likewise.
3. Review it at Amazon.com or Goodreads or on your own web site. Books live or die on buzz, so make some.
The change you’re looking for from the world starts within you: You will change the world, when you decide you want to, from the inside out. I’m eager to help. Nine empathies and The 21 Convention are good places to start.
