$5…and Change

Inserting the coin in the machine to produce an accessible, inclusive future for all, no exceptions.

Abraham Lincoln observing modern American values.

I’ve known the magic $5 can unlock since I was a kid. At the time, that was my weekly allowance giving me the freedom to explore the world and purchase whatever caught my eye.

Now, many years later, I’ve discovered the $5 has even more potent magic.

As an example, this week it not only added to the total monetary investment into the Anti-Fragile Playbook Indiegogo campaign, it activated additional invisible, non-monetary capitals to organically deepen the story.

This single $5 donation has had a 5x effect, triggering the invisible capitals that deepen & strengthen our work and that of the future community.

What are the invisible capitals?

1. Identity — what we are — Kinship mind
2. Empathy — what others are — Story mind
3. Vision — what we can be together — Dreaming mind
4. History —what roots the potential — Ancestor mind
5. Engagement — what is the entry point to the larger pattern — Pattern mind

This multi-mind model shared by Dr. Tyson Yunkaporta in the book Sand Talk helps to illustrate how we identify, emerge & engage with these invisible capitals that…