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For more than half a century, in such books as The Art of Joy and The Dalai Lama's Little Publication of Inner Tranquility, the Dalai Lama has guided us along the road to compassion and trained us how to improve our inner lives. In A Push for Good, with the help of his longtime good friend Daniel Goleman, the New York Times best-selling writer of Emotional Cleverness, the Dalai Lama clarifies how to turn our compassionate energy outward. This revelatory and inspiring work provides a singular perspective for transforming the world in practical and positive ways. Much more than simply the most dominant exponent of Tibetan Buddhism, the 14th Dalai Lama is also a futurist who owns a profound knowledge of current occurrences and a exceptional canniness for modern sociable issues. When he takes the level worldwide, people listen. A Push for Good combines the central ideas of the Dalai Lama, empirical data that supports them, and true reports of individuals who are adding his ideas into action - showing how harnessing positive energies and directing them outward has long-term and meaningful effects. Goleman details the technology of compassion and how this singular guiding motivation has the capacity to:
- Period of time such destructive sociable forces as problem, collusion, and bias
- Heal the planet by refocusing our concerns toward our impact on the systems that support all life
- Opposite the trend toward systemic inequity through transparency and accountability
- Replace violence with dialogue
- Counter us-and-them thinking by recognizing real human oneness
- Create new financial systems that work for everybody, not only the powerful and wealthy
- Design schooling that shows empathy, self-mastery, and ethics
