“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.” —Gandhi World change doesn’t come about because of a single person working alone. Period. It simply doesn’t happen. Individuals can share their visions, pioneer new ways of thinking or doing, act with […]
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Journalist and social activist Dorothy Day, along with Peter Maurin, started the newspaper The Catholic Worker in 1933. It sold it for a penny a copy, which still the price. With writers such as Thomas Merton and Daniel Berrigan the paper connected the church’s teachings with social justice issues, as it […]
By Tom Peterson Last week Cambridge, Mass., elementary school librarian Liz Phipps Soeiro returned 10 Dr. Seuss books to Melania Trump. To mark National Read a Book Day, the first lady had sent a set of books to one school in each state. Phipps Soeiro wrote the first lady that while she […]
Be clear about what you want people to do. By Tom Peterson Al Gore’s 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth gives an inside look at a presentation the former vice president made more than a thousand times. After two hours of information alerting the audience to the crisis of climate change, Gore ends with […]
By Tom Peterson Do you work in an unhappy place? Are people mean? Do you abandon hope as you enter? Do you ask yourself, “How did I get here?” Do you want to go home and rethink your life? Is the stress too damned high? Are you thinking don’t rock the boat? Just lay low? […]
By Tom Peterson On a Friday morning in August, some three dozen people gather in a large meeting room at the Forsyth County health department in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Down the halls are public clinics and offices for the staff who inspect restaurants, track diseases, or otherwise keep the […]
Mind Mapping, Part 2 To read Part 1 “Mind Maps: who, what when to use them” click HERE. By Tom Peterson Visually outlining through mind maps opens up creativity and helps you see structures and connections in fresh ways. It’s great for tasks like understanding complex issues or starting new enterprises. […]
By Tom Peterson Although we’re rarely conscious of it we use maps all the time. Every day we use mental maps to navigate the rooms of our home, get to school and work. Maps teach us as children about our strange and wonderful world—green is vegetation, tan is desert, bumps are mountains. And we learn […]
Click HERE for “Reframing” Portal at Cosmorock.org By Tom Peterson The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination […]
