[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Change]], [[Perspective]] - People: [[Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQo1NgQ-Yf0 --- ## Summary - Allow your dissatisfaction to give birth to change. - Transform that negative feeling of learned helplessness into the opportunity to help others and to help others. - [[Talk with people, not at people]]. Meet them where they are and share experiences, not the eventualities of far removed ideas. - [[Change must be socialized through humility and grace]]. - [[Think globally, act locally]], and scale from there. - Far too often when we think about scaling, we focus far too much on technology and not on people. People are what give technology meaning. ## Notes - "...You're feeling frustrated and dissatisfied and so often, we choose to live with it. **It's a negative that we tell ourselves we have to endure**." - [[We all have the ability to turn that negative feeling into a positive by allowing our dissatisfaction to give birth to change]] ### Perception of effectiveness - "The vagueness of those telephone conversations disappointed me. It felt like the people raising the money **seemed so removed from the crisis**." - At some level, we can sense the disconnectedness of things, which can be perceived as disingenuousness, manifesting into distrust. - Lived experience, true experience, is needed. - Conviction comes not from your words but from perceived experience. - "I wasn't convinced that the interventions they would eventually implement would actually have a level of impact that was so clearly needed." - [[The word "eventually" removes the urgency that some situations cannot afford]]. - "...I continually asked myself - 'What could I be doing? What should I be doing?'" ### Action - Be focused, intentional, and fast with your action. [[Think globally, act locally]], and scale from there. - [[Our collective sense of dissatisfaction at an unacceptable status quo kept us focused on getting things done]]. - "It's amazing what a dose of dissatisfaction can birth." ### Socializing change - "Beyond the tears, I started to feel again." - [[We won't succeed until we're talking to people under the mango tree]] - We need to [[Talk with people, not at people]]. - "We needed to be talking under the mango tree, **not through loud speakers**." - [[Change must be socialized through humility and grace]]. However, you can't just talk about action. You must do it, and teach others how they can help themselves and each other. - "I'm really grateful for the dissatisfaction that **opened up the space for me to serve**". - "...as infrastructure failed to keep up with the growth of the population." - Far too often when we think about scaling, we focus far too much on technology and not on people. People are what give technology meaning. ## Original ![[How to turn your dissatisfaction into action-1.jpg]] ![[How to turn your dissatisfaction into action-2.jpg]] ![[How to turn your dissatisfaction into action-3.jpg]]