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Brene Brown: The Power Of Vulnerability

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/15/brene-brown-vulnerability_n_1150976.html In this special year-end collaboration, TED and The Huffington Post are excited to count down 18 great ideas of 2011, featuring the full TEDTalk with original blog posts that we think will shape 2012. Watch, engage and share these groundbreaking ideas as they are unveiled one-by-one, including never-seen-before TEDTalk premieres.
http://www.switchconsulting.fr/blog/2011/08/01/nattendez-pas-pour-etre-un-heros-mark-bezos/ Après la vente de son agence de publicité, Mark Bezos est devenu le Responsable du développement, de la communication et des évènements de Robin Hood , l’une des plus importante association caritative luttant contre la pauvreté à New York. A ses heures perdues, il est aussi l’assistant du Capitaine d’une compagnie de pompiers volontaires du Comté de Westchester (N.Y) où il vit avec sa femme et ses quatre enfants. Il nous explique au travers du récit d’un acte héroïque pour le moins inattendu – et drôle !

« N’attendez pas pour être un héros ! » – Mark Bezos « SWiTCH

Jeremy Rifkin - Empathie/prospective/énergie

We find it easier to empathise with people who are socially and emotionally close to us, of course we do. Research has even shown how the sight of a loved one in pain triggers a kind of simulation of their agony in the pain network of our own brain. http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2011/04/how-feeling-socially-connected-can-make.html

How feeling socially connected can make strangers' hearts beat together

i Rate This In the last few days, I came across a couple of unrelated quotations on human nature and our internal tug-of-war between cooperation and conflict.

On Optimism and ‘Human Nature’ « Patrick F. Clarkin, Ph.D.

http://kevishere.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/on-optimism-and-human-nature/
“SuperCooperators” (written with Roger Highfield, editor of New Scientist magazine) is an absorbing, accessible book about the power of mathematics.

SuperCooperators - By Martin A. Nowak

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/books/review/book-review-supercooperators-by-martin-a-nowak.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all
Martin A. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Nowak

Martin Nowak

http://alaingrandjean.fr/2011/04/08/l%e2%80%99age-de-l%e2%80%99empathie/ Frans de Waal 1 était spécialiste de l’agression animale quand il a vu mourir son chimpanzé préféré Luit, des suites de luttes de pouvoir.

L’âge de l’empathie