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What does it mean?
Human progress starts with individual thoughts and everyone shares this capacity.
In plain terms
Great ideas start in one mind and anyone can have them.
What can you take from it?
Your thoughts matter.

Where it applies

  • brainstorming
  • social change
  • personal goals

Putting it to work

  • voice ideas
  • trust intuition

Questions to consider

  • What thought do you have that could change things?

Another view

Systemic barriers can prevent individual ideas from becoming reality.

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