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The inspiration that is Jane Evans said something recently that I keep coming back to 'even saying fight the patriarchy is patriarchal thinking'... the fact that we need new words and new methods is so important (or relearn those we used to have), but it's easy with our societal conditioning to fall back into familiar patterns of speech and behaviour, even though we know the systems they refer to aren't working well for our humanity, and definitely need change!!! This has also had me questioning everything about how we approach social change... are we exhausting ourselves trying to convince sceptics when we should be amplifying our choir instead? My new Substack essay explores themes like the 'exhaustion economy', why convincing one passionate advocate beats arguing with ten fence-sitters... plus fascinating research showing you only need 25% of people to adopt a new norm to tip an entire group (I was sure it needed to be at least 50%+) Jane starts it off, but shoutouts also in it to other brilliant voices shaping my thinking, those who are just getting on with building brilliant things... Susanna Hancock at #NONO, Alina Jingan at Women Love AI, and of course writing on this topic I couldn't miss out James Sills 🎤 Sills for showing us the transformative power of choirs! 💬 Who's in your choir? 🎶 ... what does a better and shiner community look like for you? Oh and my eternal gratitude to anyone better at AI image prompting than me who can make cartoon me look more like she's Madonna in the Like A Prayer video *grin* #ikigai #AI