Imagine you are Uffy and Muffy from planet Venus and are watching the Earth using binoculars.They ask each other the following questions:
Our challenge:
Redo the Uffy and Muffy roleplay with everyone close to us. A different dialogue with each particular person. Then, with the help of the respective person, identify the easiest change to Earth you’ve talked about and convince them not only to try and be that change themselves, but to carry out the roleplay with someone else. Our challenge is to create this process of constant dialogue and to make as many people as possible become the easiest change they can be, so that a gateway is opened towards increasingly meaningful and large-scale change. The way our club can help is to keep us motivated. Sharing stories of success and changing perspectives during club sessions helps everyone stay on track and keep up the challenge, the club can make the whole thing enjoyable through a powerful feeling of community, as any club should.
Tom’s challenge:
Tom, as someone who we’ve just tried to talk into joining into our challenge, we challenge you not to think of us as idealists. Because when you think idealist, you think of something bad, you think of impractical, you don’t even look at our face because our head is too far up in the clouds. It’s okay Tom, this is just because the world we live in is all about pragmatism, as we say here in Romania, “Ce-i în mână nu-i minciună” (It’s not a lie if you can hold it in your hand). We’re not idealists in this sense here. We’re just revolting. Innovating. Challenging the way things work. If you think the change we want is a good one, ignore terminology and help us out. Start challenging the status quo by challenging what you’d think of such an idea at first. Good luck, Tom!
- Do you think everything is all right with Earth?
- What do you think is wrong/great with Earth and why?
- What would you change on Earth to make it a better place from your perspective?
Our challenge:
Redo the Uffy and Muffy roleplay with everyone close to us. A different dialogue with each particular person. Then, with the help of the respective person, identify the easiest change to Earth you’ve talked about and convince them not only to try and be that change themselves, but to carry out the roleplay with someone else. Our challenge is to create this process of constant dialogue and to make as many people as possible become the easiest change they can be, so that a gateway is opened towards increasingly meaningful and large-scale change. The way our club can help is to keep us motivated. Sharing stories of success and changing perspectives during club sessions helps everyone stay on track and keep up the challenge, the club can make the whole thing enjoyable through a powerful feeling of community, as any club should.
Tom’s challenge:
Tom, as someone who we’ve just tried to talk into joining into our challenge, we challenge you not to think of us as idealists. Because when you think idealist, you think of something bad, you think of impractical, you don’t even look at our face because our head is too far up in the clouds. It’s okay Tom, this is just because the world we live in is all about pragmatism, as we say here in Romania, “Ce-i în mână nu-i minciună” (It’s not a lie if you can hold it in your hand). We’re not idealists in this sense here. We’re just revolting. Innovating. Challenging the way things work. If you think the change we want is a good one, ignore terminology and help us out. Start challenging the status quo by challenging what you’d think of such an idea at first. Good luck, Tom!