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Our Truths Are Based On Internal Beliefs That Are Too Often Wrong

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Here’ an important message to our leaders and decision makers:

Assume that your truths and beliefs are an Illusion.

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Consider how our brain works …
Watch what happens to your belief system as you stare at this image.

1-Follow the moving pink dot: What do you see?
2-Look at the middle black cross. Now what do you see?
3-Now star for a few seconds at the black cross. What happens?

This should be proof enough that we don’t always see what we think we see.


If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, the dots will remain only one color, pink. However if you stare at the black ” +” in the centre, the moving dot turns to green. Now, concentrate on the black ” + ” in the centre of the picture. After a short period, all the pink dots will slowly disappear, and you will only see only a single green dot rotating. It’s amazing how our brain works. There really is no green dot , and the pink ones really don’t disappear.


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Social Innovation in Action: Vic Applies for the Bucky Fuller Design Challenge Award

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InGENuity Vision And Guiding PrinciplesBuckyFuller Design Science Challenge:

How to shift innovation’s intent from creating intellectual widgets to forming intelligent societies.

I want to share that last week I applied for the Bucky Fuller Challenge Award. Hoping you will wish the inGENuity team and me lots of luck. Learn more at links to the story below. Vic 🙂
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Awakening to Social Dark Truths is how Bright Futures Begin

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Batman-Arkham-City-Joker-Heath-Ledger-460x470As a student of truth, I have become the ‘cynical optimist’. I have allowed myself to go down forbidden rabbit holes, and there faced information that I did not want to deal with. It has been an emotional roller coaster for me to not only have horrific truths revealed to me. But then to also be pushed aside by most people, not wanting to address it. That has been even tougher. I watch how they shut down to what I am saying, and then quickly paint over it with ‘think positive’ brushes. This is a sham.

Screen Shot 2013-08-28 at 3.57.27 PMMy work is about positive transformation and change. What I learned however, is that creating a world that is truly wonderful for all to live in, means standing face to face with humanity’s dark nature. Paradise not a pipe dream. It’s a very real possibility. But not until many more of us wake up to the enslaved society we live in and then consciously act to change it.

Watch this video as an example of another agent of change slides down a rabbit hole, only to find out truths about our money and political systems that 99% of us refuse to address, calling it conspiracy. As if saying that somehow makes the fact that its happening disappear. Watch with your eyes wide open, allow yourself to take it in, and don’t let words like fascism stop you from going down this rabbit hole to see for yourself. Then decide what’s true for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE8RtL3azDg
In a time of deceit telling, the truth is a revolutionary act ~ George Orwell
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” ~Goethe

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Days of the “Sage on Stage” are Over

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Experiment: A test was given to physics students all over the world. Results showed that students only comprehend 14% more its basic concepts over a quarter.

Outcome: Listening someone to talk is not an effective way for humans to learn. However, if small group discussions are used to learn the same material, it was found that comprehension gains triple by the end of a semester.

The days of the ‘sage on stage’ are over. It is no longer enough to just have information. Teachers today have to be facilitators of a process that enables their students to self-learn through interactive conversations and activity. This is what I like to call “Collaborative Design”. Listen to this great interview from NPR news on how our antiquated lecture framework, an educational model that’s been used for centuries, is no longer enough.

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