#153 Swimming with Dolphins - Passion - conversations with Paul Kordis,part 16

We are continuing our Swimming with Dolphins series of conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis. Check back to the complete series.

Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.

His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a best seller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.

Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:

• How do I know what my gift is?
• What is the story that we are moving into?
  • Each world view has its own mythology
  • Moving from one world to the next through the narrative
• Myths for each of the value systems
• Surprises

#152 Swimming with Dolphins - Passion - conversations with Paul Kordis,part 15

We are continuing our Swimming with Dolphins series of conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis. Check back to the complete series.

Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.

His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a best seller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.

Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:

• Passion
  • Doing what you love
  • Doing the way you love to do it – a good context
  • Need to do it where it is needed – finding the right place
  • “If you feel good at work, you are not doing your work” – the social myth to overcome
• “The Secret” fad
  • Envisioning is only half the story, you have to take action
  • “I love a good breakfast, but I don’t like to make it”. Try lying in bed manifesting it.
• Attributes of the winners – people who have successively lived being on purpose
• Bigger than self

#151 Swimming with Dolphins - Power - conversations with Paul Kordis,part 14

We are continuing our Swimming with Dolphins series of conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis. Check back to the complete series.

Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.

His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a best seller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.

Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:

• Conscious consumption & investment
  • Let’s all agree to work less
• Cooperation
  • Punishing the non-punisher
• Manipulation of symbols
  • Any codification and shorthand is a gross overgeneralization
  • Breaking the power of symbols – going to process thinking
• Linear & Systemic Thinking
  • Majoring in minor things
• Decision making & decision systems
  • Cannot make a true transformation without entering the people’s map first
• Knowing your board of directors
  • Life is more complex than we would like it to be

#150 Swimming with Dolphins - Power - conversations with Paul Kordis,part 13

We are continuing our Swimming with Dolphins series of conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis. Check back to the complete series.

Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.

His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a best seller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.

Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:

• Value Systems & Power
• Architecture & Power
  • The tallest building indicates the prevailing power
• Motivation for Transition
  • It has to be painful enough where you are, and the pleasure of where you want to go must be high enough in order to motivate you to endure the pain of the transition
  • Learned helplessness – after some point, people give up
• Power of Narrative

#149 Swimming with Dolphins - Power - conversations with Paul Kordis,part 12

We are continuing our Swimming with Dolphins series of conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis. Check back to the complete series.

Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.

His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a best seller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.

Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:

• Religion – Fundamentalism
• Corporate and Military
• Media

#148 Swimming with Dolphins - Power - conversations with Paul Kordis,part 11

We are continuing our Swimming with Dolphins series of conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis. Check back to the complete series.

Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.

His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a best seller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.

Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:

• Economy
  • If we work less, we may have higher quality of life
  • From deadlines to lifelines
  • From maximizing profit to maximizing value
  • Spreading ideas
• Power
• Holy and Unholy Trinity: Economy, Religion, Politics

#147 Swimming with Dolphins - Mirror Neurons & Social Capital -conversations with Paul Kordis, part 10

We are continuing our Swimming with Dolphins series of conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis. Check back to the complete series.

Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.

His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a best seller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.

Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:

• Social Capital
  • Economic ladder
  • Social capital – doing business is a social process
  • Context and environment is important
• Mirror Neurons
  • Empathy – mixing rich and poor makes rich want to help, if only not to feel the poor’s pain
• Rapport, Brain and Autism
  • Rapport – maching & mirroring – it’s a tool, the difference in application
  • Autism – a disfunction of mirror neurons
  • Monkey moving the cursor
• Disconnect of empathy in our society
  • Manipulation is not always bad

#94 Swimming with Dolphins - Learning to Learn - conversations withPaul Kordis, part 9

We are continuing our Swimming with Dolphins series of conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis. Check back to the previous episode (#93) of the series, or start with the first episode (#52) , if you haven’t heard it yet.

Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.

His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a best seller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.

Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:

• Choosing the change
  • At level 7, change becomes autogenic and conscious
• Learning to learn
• Solutions at one level are the problems of the next
  • Or, as Joseph Campbell put it, “Gods of one level are demons of the next”
• Progress and Regress
  • Transitions may happen backwards, to the lower levels
  • Previous value systems are necessary for the higher ones to emerge

#93 Swimming with Dolphins - Systemic Consciousness - conversationswith Paul Kordis, part 8

We are continuing our Swimming with Dolphins series of conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis. Check back to the previous episode (#90) of the series, or start with the first episode (#52) , if you haven’t heard it yet.

Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.

His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a best seller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.

Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:

• Systemic Consciousness
• Interconnectedness of the modern age
• Break-through to level 7
  • Bigger than all the previous levels combined
• Neurological changes
  • Level transitions are reflected by physical, neurological brain changes

#90 Swimming with Dolphins - Meet the Dolphin- conversations with PaulKordis, part 7

We are continuing our Swimming with Dolphins series of conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis. Check back to the previous episode (#89) of the series, or start with the first episode (#52) , if you haven’t heard it yet.

Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.

His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a best seller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.

Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:

• Team dynamics model
• Ideas for the sequel to the Dolphins book
• Dolphin behavious & attributes
  • Levels 6 through 8

#89 Swimming with Dolphins - Emotions of Change - conversations withPaul Kordis, part 6

We are continuing our Swimming with Dolphins series of conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis. Check back to the previous episode (#88) of the series, or start with the first episode (#52) , if you haven’t heard it yet.

Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.

His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a best seller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.

Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:

• Emotions of Change
  • Dolphin book – written in late 80s
  • Win-win concept
  • Dolphin metaphor
  • Sharks and Carps
  • Types of behavior: sacrificial, selfish, compromise, collaboration
  • Emotion cycles for each side of the wave
• Decision strategies
  • Accelerating rate of change
  • Openness to change, ability to see it coming
  • How much involvement you have in decision making
• Purpose
  • Why are we here?
  • Context for the decisions

#88 Swimming with Dolphins - Value Systems - conversations with PaulKordis, part 5

We are continuing our Swimming with Dolphins series of conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis. Check back to the previous episode (#64) of the series, or start with the first episode (#52) , if you haven’t heard it yet.

Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.

His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a best seller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.

Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:

• Graves model
• The basic value systems
  1. Autistic (right now)
  2. Tribal (family, clan, blood relationship)
  3. The loner (motocycle biker, leave me alone)
  4. The loyalist
  5. The achiever
  6. Egalitarian
  7. Dedication to what works. Negative side: arrogance.
  8. Global
• Movement from one system to the other
  • It’s a Hero’s Journey
• The rule of fours
  • Freedom and Structure
  • Task and Relationship
• Importance of all systems

#85 Transformational Leadership - conversations with Paul Kordis, part 3

This episode concludes our series of conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis on the transformational leadership. Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.

His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a best seller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.

Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:

• Resistance to Change
• Taking Responsibility
• Head, Heart, and Hand
• Emotional “Proud Flesh”
• Through Suffering to Joy
• Poetry – David Whyte

#84 Transformational Leadership - conversations with Paul Kordis, part 2

We are continuing our series of conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis on the transformational leadership. Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.

His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a bestseller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.

Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:

• The Dark Side of the US Politics
• The Dark Side of Business and Organizations
• Blindness to the pattern
• Emotions of change (see the article at Human Capital Sustainability)
• As above, so below
  • From system level to personal level
• Why acknowledging the dark side is importart?

#83 Transformational Leadership - conversations with Paul Kordis, part 1

Today, we are bringing you another series of conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis, this time on the transformational leadership. Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.

His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a best seller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.

Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:

• Dark and Light Side of Leadership
  • The two extremes, and the middle – the transactional nature of leadership.
• The 3-legged stool
  • The Seat: Doing the right thing
  • The legs:
    • Do you want to do it? Motivation, intrinsic and extrinsic
    • Can you do it? (Skills, abilities, etc)
    • The Resources – that’s where the leadership really falls into (tangible, intangible, etc.)
  • The “Race Car Driver” model
• Transformational Leadership
  • Considering the emotional and spiritual aspects of leadership, in addition to the transactional aspect.
  • Comes difficult in the business environments where the main idea is that the only purpose of business is profit. Yet when implemented, transformational leadership brings lots of profit.
  • Ethics
• The Dark Side of Leadership
  • How it’s been ignored for too long, and what it cost us. A good leader should lead people to confront the dark side.

Radix Omnium Malorum Avaritia

Originally on my Web site I posted something similar to the following:

Whereas an interest in one’s philosophical foundation seems these days to surrender to sound bites, simple rhetoric, and ideology, it is still an imperative when discussing human capital sustainability. Therefore, I shall divide the issue into three axes, each with diametric opposites at either end. These axes are love – greed, connection – isolation, and life – death, and are illustrated in the figure below:

#64 Swimming with Dolphins - The Inter-Dependence - conversations withPaul Kordis, part 4

We are continuing our conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis. Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.

His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a best seller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.

Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:

• Wave 4 – relationships and inter-dependency
  • Wave 5 will be about spiritual and ethical
• On “normal” distribution and the Gini coefficient
  • Mutation – punctuated evolution
  • Our society is far from “normal”
  • Changes the entire economics
• Leveling the playfield
• Revamping Economics
  • Rather than predicting, the economists should give us goals
  • Normal distribution of wealth could be one measure / goal
  • Cybernetic loop between me and the environment; continuous feedback-correction mechanism
  • Quality of the feedback
  • European Union is investing in the future by sacrificing something now. In the US, we are sacrificing the future to maintain (not even improve) our current level.

[techtags: Paul Kordis, Dolphins, Economics, Gini Coefficient, Inter-Dependency, Waves of Change, Generosity, Purpose, Passion, Globalization, Localization, NLP]

#62 Swimming with Dolphins - The Waves of Change - conversations withPaul Kordis, part 3

We are continuing our conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis. Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.

His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a best seller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.

Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:

• Emergent phenomena – that enhances people’s life. It’s in the systems, institutions, organizations.
  • Developments in the economic, political and religious systems are leading towards bifurcation point.
  • Artifacts
• Waves of change
  • Take human history as a 30-day month
  • First 29 days – hunting and gathering
  • Wave 1: The agriculture came along – peaked in early 1900s
  • Wave 2: The Industrial wave – started in 1650s, peaked in 1950s in the US
  • Wave 3: Informational wave – peaked out in mid-1980s
  • Wave 4: approaching the bifurcation point. Characterized by 6 primary technologies
    • Bio-engineering
    • Nanotechnology
    • Robotics (macro)
    • Machine cognition
    • New material science
    • Exotic energy sources
• Key observation: in waves 1 & 2, change was slow, and we could adapt on the back of the wave. Wave 3 was faster, we had to adapt with the change. With wave 4, we may have to adapt before it happens.
• Wave 4 technologies
  • Car battery – building the capacitor with a virus
  • Water filtration plant “Slingshot” – by the guy who built the Segway. Runs on methane, produces about mega-watt of energy, and produces enough fresh water for the entire village.
• Betrayal of the technologies
  • They de-centralize power, hence less profit for the richest

[techtags: Paul Kordis, Dolphins, Waves of Change, Syntropy, Spheres of Human Influence, Generosity, Purpose, Passion, Globalization, Localization, NLP]

#53 Swimming with Dolphins with Paul Kordis, part 2

We are continuing our conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis. Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.

His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a best seller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.

Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:

• Spheres of human influence
  • Individual behavior
  • Social & organizational
  • Political & Economic
  • Spiritual / philosophical / ethical
  • Political has built a wall from spiritual, so it cannot influence other spheres. Ideally, our decisions have to be based on the common ethics, which now becomes hard. Example: US foreign policy.
• Spirituality is simple and practical
  • Leadership and organizational development
  • Know where you are, where you’re going, and how do you get there
  • US founding documents – we just forgot to follow the map
• Natural generosity and good will
  • We’ve unlearned basic values
  • We need to expand our sphere of perception. Need to know the problem first.
  • Our brains are preoccupied with commercials and other noise
  • Expand our view of time. Learn history.
  • Expand our sphere of influence.
  • Expanding one’s perception without expanding one’s sphere of influence quickly follows by depression
• Purpose and passion
  • Who do I want to become?
  • What are my core competencies?
  • Combining the two together, what opportunities present themselves for me to move forward?
  • Think future (or historically), act now. The axis of expanding perception runs both ways.
• Globalization and localization
• Understanding ourselves
  • Movie: Lars and the Real Girl
  • Transforming oneself while transforming something outside
  • Schizophrenia as a heroic journey
• Concepts across disciplines
  • If you study any discipline deep enough, you come to the same conclusions
  • We adapt to systemic views

[techtags: Paul Kordis, Dolphins, Social Norm Marketing, Syntropy, Spheres of Human Influence, Generosity, Purpose, Passion, Globalization, Localization, NLP]

#52 Swimming with Dolphins with Paul Kordis, part 1

Today we are going to introduce you to Dr. Paul Kordis. Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.

His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a best seller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.

Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:

• Spreading genes, memes, and phemes
  • Older and younger generations have been cut apart
• On existence of evil in the world
  • Default mode is entropy; it requires effort to go on syntropic way
• NLP
  • Looking for an edge over others
  • Direction of NLP: progression AND regression (standardization, certification)
  • Started out as modeling others. Presupposition – “I’m not good enough”.
  • Our approach – start out from my (individual) own uniqueness
• Social Norm Marketing
  • Book “Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness” by Richard H. Thaler (Author), Cass R. Sunstein
  • Small changes – healthy food closer to the entrance of the cafeteria, organ donors by default (unless opted out), publish your neighbors’ energy use in the bill. “Social norms marketing”.
  • Binge drinking reduction through social norm marketing (how much do you drink & how much do you think others drink)
  • False social norm marketing – providing distractions to people, making them think their opinion is in minority, and voicing it is dangerous. Example: gay rights and abortions in religious rights. People are making decisions out of fear.
• The “Little Bang” – Life.
  • Universe is entropic, but life is syntropic. See yodolphin.com for an article.
  • 3 axis: Entropy-Syntropy, Love-Fear (life-death), Isolation-Connectivity
  • The US in the last 40 years has been moving to entropy/fear/isolation. Not a good sign.
  • How one handles novelty determines other dimensions

[techtags: Paul Kordis, Dolphins, Strategy of The Dolphin, Code of the monarch, Social Norm Marketing, Little Bang, Syntropy, NLP]