#137 Buckminster Fuller - Conversations with David Neenan, part 2

We are continuing our conversation with David Neenan about Buckminster Fuller.

David Neenan is the creator of the pioneering Archistruction(R) process for planning, designing, and managing building construction projects. As president of The Neenan Company, he has combined leading-edge information processing and design methods and innovative “people” approaches to reengineer how the construction process works from conception to completion. His company uses the Archistruction methods to design and costruct office, medical, retail, and light industrial buildings for clients throughout the Rocky Mountain region from offices in Fort Collins, Denver, and Colorado Springs. David is also a nationally recognized seminar leader, keynode speaker, business consultant, and the author of books such as “Evergreen” and “No Excuses: be the hero of your own life”. He has produced his “Business & You” and other seminars in Colorado, Hawaii, California, Texas, Vermont, Taiwan, Sweden, Moscow, and Siberia. He and his wife, Sharon, live in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Topics covered in this episode:

• The Lake Michigan Dialogue
  • Not everyone can learn from hard experiences
  • The only way to learn is to hang in there. Resilience is the key.
  • You don’t belong to you, you belong to the Universe
  • The “Guinea Pig B”: what can one pennyless person do on behalf of the humanity?
  • Best technology was used for “killingry”, instead of for “livingry”
  • The Universe is a perfect balance of tension and compression
• Bucky’s principles in Business – Synergistics
• Excuses and responsibility
  • What can I do about?
  • I didn’t do it
  • Everybody else is doing it
  • I couldn’t help it, I had no choice
  • God told me to do it
  • I couldn’t help it, I was afraid
• How Bucky died
  • “Call me trimtab”

Paul Ekman’s Taxonomy of Compassion -

Paul Ekman’s Taxonomy of Compassion

By Paul Ekman | June 21, 2010 | 0 comments

The renowned psychologist offers a lesson in emotional intelligence.

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This month, Greater Good features videos of a presentation by renowned psychologist Paul Ekman on “Darwin, Compassion, and the Dalai Lama.” In his talk, Ekman reveals the similarities between Darwin’s and the Dalai Lama’s perspectives on compassion, and he provides an overview of different forms of compassion, ranging from the most elementary to the most exceptional and heroic. Many writers group these phenomena together, explains Ekman, without realizing they’re talking about different things.

Below is a guide to understanding what these varying forms of compassion are and why they’re so important.

Resources

Click here to watch videos from Paul Ekman’s talk on “Darwin, Compassion, and the Dalai Lama.”

Also check out this articleabout research into why people display compassion in the midst of war.

• Emotion Recognition is the easiest—the sine qua non. It’s knowing how another person is feeling. Most people don’t need to be taught it, though people with Asperger’s, autism, or schizoprenia do. Realize that the torturer needs emotion recognition: to know how you feel doesn’t imply whether I’m going to try to relieve your suffering or inflict it, or just have no concern. But if I don’t know how you’re feeling, everything else just falls by the wayside.
• Emotional Resonance is what Bill Clinton does: “I feel your pain.” I distinguish between two types of resonance: Identical Resonance is when you realize that someone is in pain and you actually physically experience that same feeling yourself. But when you say, “Oh, you poor baby! I’m so sorry you’re feeling that way. What can I do to help you?”—that’s Reactive Resonance.

  Everybody loves people who resonate; resonance is crucial to our relationships with our loved ones. But if you’re like my daughter, an emergency room worker in San Francisco’s only trauma center, if you feel other people’s pain for 8 or 12 hours a day, you’ll burn out. The Dalai Lama says he feels others’ pain, but just very slightly and just for a few seconds, then it passes.

  Not everyone resonates: There’s reason to believe that people with anti-social personalities don’t resonate, but they’re able to act as if they resonate, because they know other people like it, and that allows them to manipulate others.

Nadia Zwierzchowska
• Familial Compassionis the seed of compassion, planted through the caregiver-offspring bond. It raises very interesting questions about people who were brought up without a single caregiver, or were brought up with a parent who had a very distant attachment. What is their capacity for compassion? Both the Dalai Lama and Darwin would say that they’re going to have problems—without the seed, the flower won’t grow.
• Global Compassion was exemplified by the response to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. People around the world extended assistance to strangers, of different races and skin colors. Now, we know that not everybody has it—a lot of people acted, and a lot of people didn’t. How do we cultivate global compassion? I consider this one of the most crucial questions for the survival of our children and grandchildren, because the planet won’t survive without global compassion. We’ve got to try to see what we can learn from those who have it without training.
• Sentient Compassion is when you extend feelings of compassion toward cockroaches, toward any living being. We don’t know whether people who have global compassion have sentient compassion. But my hunch is that if you’ve got sentient, you’ve got global. The Dalai Lama and Darwin agree that sentient is the highest moral virtue.
United States Navy/Petty Officer 2nd Class Timothy Smith
• Heroic Compassionis like altruism with a risk. It has two forms: Immediate Heroic Compassionis when, without thought, you jump onto the subway tracks to rescue someone. It’s impulsive.

  Considered Heroic Compassion isn’t done impulsively; it’s done with thought, and it can be maintained for many years.

  Kristen Monroe, a political scientist at the University of California, Irvine, has done a study of people with heroic compassion, and here are her criteria for it: 1) you must act—not just think about how good it would be to act; 2) your goal is the welfare of the other person; 3) your action has consequences for that person; 4) there’s a good possibility your actions will diminish your own welfare—you’re putting yourself at risk; 5) and you have no anticipation of reward or recognition.

  Again, we know that some people demonstrate heroic compassion without training. How’d they get it? What can we learn from them that will allow us to help other people develop it?

THANK YOU !!!

We want to thank all of our listeners, and all of our collaborators today as we have kind of hit a major milestone today. We never thought this project would come as far as it has or take the shape  it has taken.

So we stand here somewhat proud, and yet very humbled that a small group, following its shared vision has managed to reach a goal far beyond its initial sights and its impact far greater than we had imagined.

Yes it feels great today for we have

1. Reached 500,000 downloads of our material
2. We have published 136 shows on various topics
3. Downloads from over 100 Countries
4. Our topics of exploration have spanned various streams including but not limited to Neuro Linguistic Programming, Spiral Dynamics, Gravesian Levels, Mythology, 8 Circuit Brain, Leadership, Martial Arts, Dance, Theater, Shamanism, Positive Deviance, Somatics, Buckminister Fuller………

And we want to thank all of you our listeners for helping us reach this with no marketing or push, but the growth has been completely by self discovery and word of mouth. We also want to thank all our collaborators in helping this project take shape.  Our thanks go to –

• Sensei Srini Sastri – Menkyo Kaiden, Kaze Arashi Ryu for “Way Of the Warrior” Series and so-so much more
• Late Paul Rebillot – For being such a wonderful mentor in our mythology studies and the “Embodied Mythology” series
• Late Richard Roberts – For bringing Joseph Cambell’s work even closer to us than we could have imagined
• Gabrielle Roth & Kathy Altman – who continue to teach us how to dance to our own beat and the “5 Rhythms” series
• Paul Kordis – Best selling author, Friend and collaborator, someone who writes and embodies the work of Clare Graves in the deepest possible ways and “Swimming With Dolphins” series
• Marshal Thurber – For sponsoring our initiation into the world of Bucky Fuller, Positive Deviance and Super Learning – and the “Positive Deviance” series
• David Neenan – Inviting us into his Business & You world, and unique mix of existential living and contribution and his series on “Bucky and Transformation”
• Antero Alli – For the multiple Paratheatre experiences, and the series on “8 Circuit Brain” and “Archetypes Crossing” Series
• Ismana Carney – For her graciousness at Esalen and the series on “Earth As Sacred Text”
• Maniko – For helping us see how voice and dance merge, and the series on “Alchemy of Voice” series
• And a few more Unnamed Mentors and friends who though remain behind curtains have helped shape us and our lives

And above all THANK YOU TO ALL OUR LISTENERS and all the emails and feedback you have sent to this project. We stand in awe, and with humility as we cross the milestone of HALF A MILLION DOWNLOADS!!!!!!!!!!

Amusing Ourselfves to death

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#136 Buckminster Fuller - Conversations with David Neenan, part 1

We are happy to have David Neenan again in our studio, this time talking about Buckminster Fuller – a truly renaissance man of the 20th century.

David Neenan is the creator of the pioneering Archistruction(R) process for planning, designing, and managing building construction projects. As president of The Neenan Company, he has combined leading-edge information processing and design methods and innovative “people” approaches to reengineer how the construction process works from conception to completion. His company uses the Archistruction methods to design and costruct office, medical, retail, and light industrial buildings for clients throughout the Rocky Mountain region from offices in Fort Collins, Denver, and Colorado Springs. David is also a nationally recognized seminar leader, keynode speaker, business consultant, and the author of books such as “Evergreen” and “No Excuses: be the hero of your own life”. He has produced his “Business & You” and other seminars in Colorado, Hawaii, California, Texas, Vermont, Taiwan, Sweden, Moscow, and Siberia. He and his wife, Sharon, live in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Topics covered in this episode:

• Introduction to Bucky
• Abundance
  • The collapsing dome story
  • Simple concepts, but they are not easy
  • If they are lost – help them, but if they are losers – don’t
  • Miopic kindness and wise kindness
• Communicating with mood
• The Four Points of Bucky
  • 1. Integrity
    • Human beings are patterns of integrity
    • Tell the truth – not the absolute Truth, but your own truth of the moment
  • 2. Daring
    • Dare not to go with the crowd, but go with your own ideas
    • Standing up against the crowd – one of the biggest principles
  • 3. Network
    • Acceleration of Technology towards Abundance
    • “You are network. Declare it, live it, learn to be with others, and grow from it”.
  • 4. Love
    • Stay with your integrity, dare to go with your own mind, network with other people of like minds, and love comprehensively.

#135 Positive Deviants 18 - Modeling Deviants, part 2

We are concluding our series of conversations on Positive Deviance (the first episode is podcast #118). In today’s episode we cover the following topics:

• Two Kinds of Modeling – Others and Self
• Three types of modeling others – an overview
• Indirect Modeling – Osho
• Direct Learning – Absorbtion – Sensei Sastri
• Eclectic Modeling – from many sources – RCG
• Modeling Self
• Concluding remarks

#134 Positive Deviants 17 - Modeling Deviants, part 1

We are continuing our series of conversations on Positive Deviance (the first episode is podcast #118). In today’s episode we cover the following topics:

• Modeling Deviants
• What is Modeling
• Why model deviants
• Unique challenges in modeling deviants
• When to Model Deviants