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Positive emotions Dr. Barbara Fredrickson explains how positivity affects us in our behavior, and why it is so important and effective to have these emotions heartfelt. Fredrickson is Distinguished Professor of Psychology (University of North Carolina).

Erin Gruwell’s Freedom Writers Educator Gruwell had many ‘unteachable’ students coming from violent backgrounds. She managed to transform them into critical thinkers and citizens for change by fostering an educational philosophy valuing and promoting diversity. Her TEDx talk.

Yousef Erakat and his parents Yousef Erakat uses comedy to beat down the stereotypes world wide trough his comedy. Check him out on FouseyTube.net. In this episode he dressed up as his parents.

Americans have higher rates of teenage pregnancy than the French, why? What makes the Swedish thinner than the Australians? The answer is: inequality. Societies with a bigger gap between rich and poor are bad for everyone in them – including the well-off. The book offers a new way of thinking about ourselves and our communities. It changes the way you see the world.

Neither war nor peace are the way to solve our issues at group, community or society level. To create lasting change we have to learn to work fluidly with two distinct, fundamental drives that are in tension: power the single-minded desire to achieve one’s solitary purpose; and love the drive towards unity.