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breakTHROUGHArts Thanks to all who have passed breakTHROUGHArts on to other artists! To share this newsletter with friends who want more creativity in their lives, use your e-mail Forward button. To subscribe or schedule your complimentary coaching hour click: connect@dianreardon.com. July
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“Here is a surprising point: recognizing our hypocrisy is a source of power. When we become willing to monitor our hypocrisy, we discover that intense personal shame drives us to close our integrity gaps. Accepting the truth about our hypocrisy helps us to transform ourselves and others” Quinn, p. 24, 2007. Building the Bridge as You Walk On It. |
The premise, bold for the corporate world, is that for change agents to be effective they must themselves change and change so that their behaviors more closely match their values. He retells the stories of many people who realized how what they say they value doesn’t match what they’re actually doing. In facing their inherent hypocrisies, they begin to come out of their comfort zone in a multitude of ways. His map of how to help people successfully change includes territories most artists already know: going into the unknown, risking career security, grounding a vision, taking reflective action, putting the good of the work ahead of your personal ego (and personal discomfort, Michelangelo reminds us, lying on his back up there on the scaffold).
Quinn’s ideas are radical and, when implemented, pretty much
guaranteed to improve your courage for change. If such technical
reading is not for you, his earlier book (see below), although still a
bit heavy on the research, is meant for ordinary people ready for
radical transformative change.
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“We all want to experience ourselves as a creative force. That’s when we are the most influential and happy. The problem is that the normalized world will always entice or threaten us into mindless choices.” Quinn, p. 65, 2000. Change the World. |
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Friends in Print and Image: When you feel like reading or a movie
Quinn, Robert. Change the World: How Ordinary People Can Accomplish
Extraordinary Results. 2000.
Quotes from Christ, Ghandi, and Martin Luther King highlight how
powerful change agents influence people deeply. He does not sugar coat
the courage it takes to follow in their paths, but presents many
stories of ordinary folks who, by being willing to risk negative
feedback from the world, have also changed the world.
Shadows in the Sun.
2005 Movie.
The
struggles of two writers, one famous but now blocked, the other a
beginner, takes us on a twisting walk on how each finds his way to
face creative doubts and fears. The fact that the scenery is a
panorama of Tuscan loveliness is only an added Italian benefit.
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Creative Links
www.deepchange.com It’s worth visiting Quinn’s site to explore
other directions his work has taken him, including his link with a
company that provides visual mapping tools to support change.
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