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What does it mean?
Ideas for a better world are created through living in it, not just planned beforehand.
In plain terms
You create good ideas by living your life, not just by planning them first.
What can you take from it?
Live your values to manifest them in the world.

Where it applies

  • leadership
  • personal development
  • social change

Putting it to work

  • act on values now
  • learn from lived experience

Questions to consider

  • How do you live your ideas?
  • Can theory ever replace practice?

Another view

Some strategic planning is still needed for complex goals.

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