Lots of people (like the character in "Wicked", Elphaba) think HUGE and try so hard to make life better for so many people, but fail, and end up, at best, making no one's life better. Often they make many lives worse. Must big…
I would buy that the word "greed" was invented by a worn-out mother to keep her kids from asking for what they wanted. Want, greed, whatever you call it, is just a feeling. Leave it be. I'd much rather aim my rebellion at…
I've found it easier to be creative within absurd limits like "Use only five words; they all have to be adjectives". When you're denied all the conventional expressions, you can either shut up or invent new expressions...
What are the TRUE roots of sexuality, art, war, power, mental illness, political views, religion, racism, personality, talent, and all things human? What is real? What is illusory? What are we? Are we our thoughts, our actions, our personalities, our persons? I don't think so!
What other big thinkers do you find influential?
Jesus of Nazareth, Carol Gilligan, Alice Walker, Charles Darwin, Catullus, Vergil, Clodia/Lesbia, Cicero, Elizabeth I, Carl Jung, Joan of Arc, Charlotte Bronte, Bernadette of Lourdes, Sylvia Plath, the Buddha, Blessed Imelda, Maryam, Joyce Carol Oates, Hildegarde von Bingen, Rumi, Ayn Rand, Mary Magdalene, Kathleen Battle, William Shakespeare, liberals, conservatives, libertarians, everyone I've been in love with, all my friends, family, and teachers, all authors, artists, and performers, everyone I've argued with
How has the The Think Big Manifesto influenced you?
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