We have so much more influence than we think. In fact, I can’t even imagine how much people I can possibly impact with my behaviours every day. It is often ignored but, we all have this influential and dangerous power of contagion. The problem is that the effects are not always obvious. Whether the effects are positive or insidiously negative, their impacts can easily be missed or completely out of sight. This explains why we have so little occasions to notice our careless attitudes and so many reasons to give up our goodwill. One way to keep being mindful about it, despite this frustrating reality, is to see yourself as a societal node. You’re contagious, use this power for what you care for. When I realised that, I understood how powerful this idea is for large scale behavioural shift.
Our attention is money. Some people earn money to build systems that allow other people to get paid for the amount of attention they are able to get. This leads to an insane scramble for attention that is becoming very unhealthy because you’ll never have enough of it. Worse, if your creativity is driven by the desire to get attention you have much more chance to be unhappy. In his Ted Talk, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, smartly underlines this risk and points out a simple solution: paying more attention. In fact, some studies claim that focusing our attention on one single thing can help us to be more happy. It’s called the Flow. If you wish to be more creative and fulfilled, focus on sharing what you’re good at paying attention to.
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1. Societal nodes
We have so much more influence than we think. In fact, I can’t even imagine how much people I can possibly impact with my behaviours every day. It is often ignored but, we all have this influential and dangerous power of contagion. The problem is that the effects are not always obvious. Whether the effects are positive or insidiously negative, their impacts can easily be missed or completely out of sight. This explains why we have so little occasions to notice our careless attitudes and so many reasons to give up our goodwill. One way to keep being mindful about it, despite this frustrating reality, is to see yourself as a societal node. You’re contagious, use this power for what you care for. When I realised that, I understood how powerful this idea is for large scale behavioural shift.