A Pyramid Of Hate Or A Vortex Of Love: It Starts With Us

After sitting with clients this week, I am struck by how much what seems to be the rise in hate and cruelty in the world is affecting people—myself included.  It elicits a deep sadness in me that the most natural gift of being human— to love and be loved—is thwarted by fear and ignorance.  Last year had the highest tally of reported hate crime incidents since 2008, when 7,783 incidents were reported to the FBI.

Gather The People To Create The Tipping

In our digital world, we are constantly being bombarded with new ideas and trends and even conspiracy theories that seek to take hold in the culture at large.  Gladwell did in-depth research spanning a number of different fields, industries, and scholarly disciplines, and identified three key factors that each play a role in determining whether a particular trend will “tip” into wide-scale popularity. Not so ironically, he calls these three variables, or “rules of epidemics”  the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, and the Power of Context.

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