Sally Kohn: A manifesto is a living document. She says it's less about the product, the manifesto itself, but much more about the process. It allows you to engage with your values in intentional and deliberate ways that then allow you to create shortcuts for yourself when faced with difficult decisions or moments of difficulty. How do you best communicate your manifesto? The old Marshall McLuhan quote, the medium is the message is very much a play here," she says.
“If you're not living life according to your own values, you're most likely living them according to someone else's,” says Charlotte Burgess-Auburn.
Burgess-Auburn is a designer, artist, educator, and the Director of Community at the d.school. With her recently published guide, You Need A Manifesto: How To Craft Your Convictions And Put Them To Work, she aims to help people identify their core values and then codify them to chart a course of meaning and purpose.
“A manifesto is a statement of purpose and a script for action,” she says, “a compass [and] navigation tool to help you find your way.” As she and Matt Abrahams discuss on this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, a personal manifesto can help us communicate our deepest values — first to ourselves, and then to the world.
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