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TITLE: How to Change the World AUTHOR: John-Paul Flintoff NUMBER OF PAGES: 134 READING TIME: 4 hours 12 minutes PRICE: $11.99 WHAT IT'S ABOUT: If you had the chance, would you
change the world? If your answer to that is NO, then this is a quick read – finish now! If on the other hand there are some changes you would make, then this little book has some ideas on how and where to start. Of course, there cannot be one course of action, and this can make the book seem confused at times. The Gandhi type solutions would say begin with yourself - “Be the change you want to see in the world”. At the same time, we are also told to put other people’s happiness first. “We may be alone in the realms of our private thoughts, perceptions and feelings, but the world we want to change consists of other people”. Holding both thoughts at once can be tricky.
WHO IT'S FOR: Everyone. You couldn’t stick with the
status quo now, no matter how much you might want to. And we are all going to be spending much more time at home, internet browsing on a faltering NBN. Old fashioned entertainment may come back in vogue!
WHY YOU SHOULD READ IT: Sometimes we back away
from change because we think it’s too big, too hard, or too difficult. And yet, the greatest changes in the history of the world will rarely, if ever, be one event - as the history books make it sound. They will be made up of hundreds, maybe thousands, of small steps. Every pandemic starts with one person – every solution the same.
NOTABLE QUOTES: “Each of us is the swing voter in a
bitter election battle now being waged between our best and our worst possibilities.” “The key thing is not to make despair convincing, but to make hope possible.” Review written by Tony Winwood
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