Release of THE AUDACITY OF HUMANITY ebook (cf. Seth Godin's What Matters Now)
Audacity augments courage, hesitation, fear. –- Publilius Syrus
In December of 2009, Seth Godin released What Matters Now featuring 70 big thinkers sharing an idea for the coming year. On March 7, 2010, Lianne Raymond released a women of wisdom version, What’s Dying to Be Born, on International Women’s Day. I was one of its 30 contributors. That project inspired me to create a book about who-are-we-NOW that matters the next day. This seems like a new kind of chain-mail but its collaboration and inclusion.
The Audacity of Humanity features almost 40 authors, ages 10 to 63, from 5 continents representing multiple ethnicities, sexualities and belief systems with different abilities and limitations. We are ONE people, the human race, courageously up-ending stereotypes and generalizations. It lives inside the Charter for Compassion with a twist.
Each contributor offers their story as a radical transformation of what leadership can be. We are not contained by description (check out our bios). We all can agree to be offended and stay connected. From A to Zed, we are a collective testament to the audacity of humanity.
This journey began for me on March 8th. In less than a month, from start to finish, I have been AMAZED and delighted by who each one of these contributors are, and what's possible in the world because of what they are sharing what they share.
I release The Audacity of Humanity on April 2nd, 2010
- in honor of the religious holidays today and this weekend in various faiths;
- in honor the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (April 4th 1968);
- in honor of the fast that cleanses the body and spirit;
- in honor of full self expression--the verbal cleanse;
- in honor of the courage that ordinary people take everyday to risk living life audaciously.
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Share this ebook with someone new; with someone you don’t know or don’t necessarily like. Share it with young people (17 and under); with those who seem alone, disenfranchised, or left out. Share it with folks who seem to have it all. Today, your “moral jazz” (nod to the TED Talk by Barry Schwartz), your willingness to be audacious, no matter how small, unrehearsed, or honestly upset and bitter, is that what matters now.
Be the audacity of that!
