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Sunday Lecture – 8 Principles for Successful Optimists

4th November 2012 · 11:00am - 11:00am

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 Sunday Lecture – 8 Principles for Successful Optimists

As the philosopher Mark Bedau says “Change will happen and we can either try to influence it in a constructive way or we can try to stop it from happening or we can ignore it. Trying to stop it from happening is I think futile. Ignoring it seems irresponsible.” Which means there is really only one game in town: trying to steer things in a positive direction. But how do you do that? In this talk Mark Stevenson explores the way successful optimists get things done and how we can all learn from them.; Mark Stevenson is an entrepreneur futurologist and author of “An Optimist’s Tour of the Future”. He is co-founder of learning agency Flow Associates futurologist-in-residence at Primary Energy Research and on the advisory board of Richard Branson’s Virgin Earth Challenge. He is a fellow of the RSA Nibmaster General at the Ministry of Stories and founder of The League of Pragmatic Optimists. “Stevenson wears no blindfold. His tools are curiosity open-mindedness clarity and reason.” – Chris Anderson TED Curator; Open to all. No need to book in advance.

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