Openness

Please see below selected recent change-related content about change itself.

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October 2018

• In our behaviour, we tend to be making an implicit distinction between two projects: getting other people to change - and changing ourselves. We know we may have to develop in certain ways, but for now, our focus is on altering others, notes The School of Life. However, this misses an important insight: changing how you behave to others can be the fastest way to alter how others behave towards you.

September 2018

Please see below recent freedom-related change.

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October 2018

• An IAI talk claimed that the poorest of humanity, McCloskey shows, will soon be joining the comparative riches of Japan and Sweden and Botswana. Drawing from her latest book Bourgeois Equality, debate speaker Deirdre McCloskey made the case that from 1840s Manchester to modern India, the market and the people thrive when free.

September 2018

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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspired by others' little secret acts of kindness, PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.

In the last months of his life, a physically weakened Christopher Hitchens travelled to the Texas Freethought Convention and while there, an eight-year-old girl asked Hitchens what books she should consider reading. Intrigued, Hitchens spent 15 minutes chatting with the youngster and sketching out a reading list (below). His last words to her? "Lots of love...remember the love bit..."

Sad to read of the passing of Colin Wilson, a truly open-minded polymath, whose books, exhaustive range of interests, freedom of expression and seemingly boundless productivity I long found inspiring.

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