Tom Atlee: Six Paths to Greater Empathy
Six Paths to Greater Empathy In one word: CONNECT. Six Paths List: 1. Listening 2. Self-Awareness 3. Narrative Arts 4. Immersion 5. Sciences 6. Responsive Caring Read full essay.
Tom Atlee: Child’s Vow of Silence Until World Leaders Act on Climate Change
A remarkable 11 year old’s vow of silence I have been deeply moved by the action of an 11 year old – Itzcuauhtli (Eat-Squat-Lee) Roske-Martinez who stopped talking October 27, 2014 “until world leaders take action on Climate Change”. Itzcuauhtli makes it clear that he thinks all of us are at least as important as …
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Tom Atlee: Beyond Blocks to Caring
The social systems we live in – cultural, economic, political, and the rest – often make it difficult to effectively care. Understanding better the systemic realities that block our caring can help clarify how we need to change our lives and our societies. Here I explore some of the dynamics involved with money, time, distraction, …
Tom Atlee: Climate and Democracy
The two most important issues? Climate and democracy. Climate and democracy are what I call meta-issues – issues which impact virtually every other issue and therefore, I believe, have priority over all other issues. This is a controversial assertion. But I want to stress that it comes not from denial of the importance of other …
Tom Atlee: Factors Supporting Collective Stupidity, Collective Guesstimation, Collective Intelligence, and Collective Wisdom
Factors that support collective intelligence and wisdom Many factors play a role in how collectively intelligent or wise a group, system, or situation is. Here I offer tentative lists of factors that enhance collective stupidity, collective guesstimations (the “wisdom of crowds” phenomenon), collective intelligence, and collective wisdom. I invite readers to add their own thoughts …
Tom Atlee: Flawed Wisdom of the Crowds — Neglects Conversation & Role of Interaction
Research has just shown that “The Wisdom of Crowds” phenomena can be biased – a bias that can be avoided by focusing on the responses of “confident” responders and ignoring everyone else. While this is interesting, it neglects a number of important points, such as (a) how the whole process is limited to questions that …
Tom Atlee: Co-Intelligent Need Satisfaction
The co-intelligent satisfaction of needs All the activities of life can be viewed as efforts to satisfy fundamental needs. The specific things we think we want or desire are actually best viewed as attempts to satisfy those more fundamental needs that are universal and can be satisfied in so many different ways. However, some “satisfiers” …
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