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Apr 13, 2009

[From a recent post on Twitter.]
Now ain’t that the truth…?
I guess the argument still remains, what does “Changing The World” actually mean?
Does it have to be something huge, like Bill Gates starting Microsoft, The Beatles releasing Sgt. Pepper, or Nixon bombing Cambodia?
Or can it be something more modest, like opening up a really cool independent bookstore in a small town in Far West Texas that really could use one?
There’s no right answer.
It all depends on what you truly, truly love. “Meaning Scales”.

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CommunityActionHeroDavid Yorka

15 years ago

Hugh,
Thanks for sharing the Twitter comment, your post and reminding me that my mundane is what it is — personal, ongoing and satisfying

Farhad

15 years ago

When they are young they say “I want to change the world”. When they get old, they wish they had changed themselves 🙂
I like your posts very much, especially “Ignore Everybody”. Good job.

Daniel Edlen

15 years ago

Can they be one and the same?
Peace.

kristo

15 years ago

nice, Hugh…
as always…
if we can just truly find ourselves…
that changes everything…

Pilotlight

15 years ago

What does “Changing The World” actually mean? – Interesting philosophical question and one which the Greeks, Chinese and other great thinkers have been searching for an answer to for a very long time. Guess it opens up many ideas on whose world you are looking to change – your own or someone else’s? And which of the two is more powerful?

RKR

15 years ago

I get the image of meteors (ideas) hitting the earth. Some burn up in the atmosphere, some make it to earth—and then a big one! 😉
I am sure I have not changed the world, but I have changed a few minds, and pissed a few people off.
…Probably no Nobel Prize in that.

Mayson Lancaster

15 years ago

James Fallowes had some good thoughts about this local/global world changing tradeoff recently, when his father died.
See http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/tiger_jim/ for those thoughts and more.

jenn

15 years ago

Makes me think of the opening line of The Departed, “I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a produce of me.”

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