Rethinking Influence: Malcolm Gladwell

[lilac05]

I listened to this podcast the other night when anxiety had me up in the middle of the night. It gave me some extra hope about this election and where we are headed as a country. His book is coming out in November.

My biggest takeaway was when they talked about how you can seem so far from a switch, and then it hits a critical tipping point and a major cultural shift happens. He talked about same sex marriage and how Obama campaigned against it…but then a shift happened and pretty quickly, it became ridiculous to think that our government used to say certain people couldn’t get married. (I’m sure I’m butchering that…but that’s how I recall it.)

I have hope that this election is that turning point.

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I also keep coming back to what Jeff Jackson (NC congressman) said in a recent campaign event:

"We want you in the right head space. When we get through this, to seize this moment we have to broaden the appeal, to show people who were on the fence but chose to support us that they were right to trust us with their vote. ... I want us all to be on the right page with that, because I know how much outrage drives the current energy in politics, but we're going to have an opportunity to emotionally reset. Which means we have to start doing that now. And for people whose anxiety levels are super high? If you get home tomorrow and some poll comes out
and it spikes your anxiety, and you just can't handle it, I want you to give your anxiety to me. I will carry it for you, because I don't have anxiety, I have confidence. This isn't going to be the most important election of our lifetimes; it's going to be the best election of our lifetimes. Once we get through it, y'all, it's going to feel wonderful."

[babsbunny]

My hope for change is the numbers showing more women going to college then men. Need more women making decisions.