Bottom-Up: Tapping the Power of the Connection Revolution - Softcover

Kall, Rob

9781590794692: Bottom-Up: Tapping the Power of the Connection Revolution

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ISBN 10: 1590794699 ISBN 13: 9781590794692

Publisher: SelectBooks, 2018

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The biggest, most powerful trend since humans existed, explosively re-emerged about 20 years ago. It’s taken down dictatorships, elected presidents, destroyed industries and has created trillions of dollars in new industries and opportunities. It has literally altered the brain functioning of people born after 1980. Yet most people are clueless about it, like fish in water. It is the Bottom up connection consciousness revolution. It deeply affects every person, every relationship, every business, every government and the way power is exercised. It's affecting you, your parents, children, relationships and communities. You absolutely cannot avoid it, because Bottom up’s long dormant seeds, evolutionally baked deeply over millions of years into your DNA and neurophysiological systems have, like the phoenix, begun to rise again. Bernie Sanders, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and George Bush have all said, “Change happens from the Bottom up.” Bottom up has become one of the most powerful memes of the 21st century. But what does it mean and how do you do Bottom up better and smarter? Bottom up is a cooperative, interdependent, sharing, caring, empathic, egalitarian, generative, transparent, local, and--though small--incredibly powerful way of seeing, being, relating, of doing community, activism, child rearing, practicing religion and doing business. This book, Bottom Up: The Connection Revolution, picks up where Malcolm Gladwell’s Tipping Point left off. It is a how-to book for businesses, leaders, organizations, activists and individuals, cracking wide-open humankind’s biggest trend in seven million years. It does for Bottom up what the Eskimo language does for snow―expanding how you see and know it. By understanding the roots and implications of Bottom up and Top down (the opposite of Bottom up) you’ll be better able to tap the incredible power of this trend, as the billionaire founders of Google, Facebook, Craigslist and Twitter have done.

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About the Author

Rob Kall is an award-winning journalist, inventor, software architect, connector and visionary. Articles by and about him have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffPost, Success, Discover and other media. He’s given talks and workshops to Fortune 500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and Story. He hosts some of the world’s smartest, most interesting and powerful people on his Bottom up Radio Show. Rob founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and opinion sites, OpEdNews.com

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Introduction; Bottom up and Top down Basics: Bottom Up Connection Consciousness and Why You Should Care about It Intro to the Bottom up Revolution, Bottom up Connection Consciousness The biggest, most powerful trend, not in human history, but in human existence, exploded about 20 years ago. This trend has caused massive shifts in culture, business and the way we relate to each other. It has disrupted, even destroyed older industries and business models, taken down dictatorships, elected presidents and has created trillions of dollars in new industries and opportunities. It has literally altered the brain functioning of people born after 1980, yet most people are clueless about what it is. It is the Bottom up connection consciousness revolution. It deeply affects every person, every relationship, every business and every government and is changing the way people communicate, the way history is taught and the way power is exercised. It's affecting you, your parents your children, your relationships and communities. You absolutely cannot avoid it, because the long dormant seeds, baked deeply into our DNA and our neurophysiological systems are, like the phoenix, beginning to rise again. Craigslist founder Craig Newmark told me, “We are going to see a Bottom up change in tremendous amount-- in politics, commerce, just people socializing.” Bernie Sanders, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and George Bush have all said, “Change happens from the Bottom up.” Bottom up has become one of the most powerful memes of the century. But what does it mean and how do you do Bottom up more and better? What is Bottom up? It’s a way of seeing, being, relating, of doing community, activism, child rearing, practicing religion and, of course, doing business. It is cooperative, interdependent, sharing, caring, empathic, egalitarian, transparent, networked, fractal, local, and--though small--incredibly powerful. My book, BOTTOM UP: The Connection Revolution, picks up where Malcolm Gladwell’s TIPPING POINT left off. It is a how-to book for businesses, leaders, organizations, activists and individuals, cracking wide-open humanity’s biggest trend in over seven million years. Understanding the roots and implications of Bottom up and Top down (the opposite of Bottom up) will enable you, the reader, to tap the incredible power of this trend, as the billionaire founders of Google, Facebook, Craigslist and Twitter have done. A few years ago, I wrote an article about a U.S. senator, hoping to put pressure on him. Within two hours, one of his aides contacted me, assuring me the senator would be acting shortly. I’d used my knowledge of how legislative staffers use Bottom up media tracking to get a response. It’s a Bottom up technique for getting past phone-call and email screeners that not many people, not even media-savvy people, know about. In the movie Lucy, a drug increases Scarlett Johansson’s brain efficiency from 10% to 100%, giving her extraordinary abilities. Imagine something momentous happening which dumbs down a key dimension of intelligence, diminishing some of the best aspects of being human. Then imagine another development raises it back higher. This is the reality today, yet this revolution is a huge blind spot for most people and businesses, even those making billions from it. It’s a blind spot because even many of the most successful Bottom up visionaries are like fish in the water, not realizing water exists. When people like Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, Google’s Sergei Brin and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg came up with their breakthrough ideas, they were building Bottom up tools which re-awakened the expression of long dormant and repressed Bottom up epigenetic potentials. This Bottom up tsunami of change is bigger than the creation of writing or the Gutenberg paradigm shift because we’ve been genetically primed by millions of years of human evolution to re-awaken our “Bottom up-ness” and the connection consciousness that is its hallmark. The earthshaking, disruptive shifts signify a worldwide transition from a predominantly Top down world back to the more Bottom up way of our predecessors. Bottom up connection consciousness is encoded in our DNA. Humans and our predecessors evolved, for millions of years, living Bottom up lives in hunter-gatherer bands. For 99% of the five to seven million years of hominid existence we lived Bottom up lives in Bottom up cultures, raising Bottom up children to have Bottom up brains, cultures and ecosystems. We enjoyed high levels of Bottom up intelligence, which includes interdependence, empathy, cooperation, connection, caring, sharing, localization and seeing with connection consciousness, a way of knowing and responding based on a deep, reflexive awareness and knowledge that we are connected to one another and to all of nature. Bottom up living produced a system of metaphoric filters through which humans perceived the world, guiding their way of living, being and relating. Humans evolved Bottom up intelligence long before schools existed, and developed Bottom up morals long before modern day religions existed. The Bottom up Connection Revolution is re-awakening these deep, core aspects of what it is to be human― an intelligence repressed and dormant since civilization and industrialization began. It’s like a reunion with a lost piece of our soul. Between eight and twelve thousand years ago, humans began farming and domesticating animals, becoming dominators of the animals and land, creating the need for police or soldiers to protect crops and surplus food stores. That development quickly produced a Top down world ruled by hierarchy, centralized control, domination and patriarchy, leading to slavery serfdom and feudalism. Civilized, agrarian humanity flipped from living predominantly Bottom up lives to living with and seeing through a primarily Top Down metaphoric filter. Previous hunter-gatherers’ lives depended upon equality, interdependence, cooperation, compassion, openness and small, moderate, local culture. The shift to Top down repressed this Bottom up heritage and spawned hierarchy, centralization, inequality, patriarchal domination, secrecy and unrestrained, unsustainable growth. Bottom up intelligence and morals were dumbed down and replaced with narcissism and diminished emotional and social intelligence. Humanity’s experiment in civilization unfolded gradually and unevenly around the world. For most of humanity, it’s relatively recent. Just 200-500 years ago, a significant percentage of the human race was still living in Bottom up indigenous cultures. Even today, several hundred million people continue to live in indigenous, Bottom up cultures. A confluence of forces catalyzed the return to Bottom up intelligence, starting with the Women’s suffrage and Civil rights movements then kicked into high gear by the rise of the Internet, smart phones, smart screens. This re-activation of Bottom up potentials has gone global, already touching billions of people. Two hundred million years of mammalian evolution and seven million years of human evolutionary programming have produced hundreds of neurobiological factors associated with Bottom up aspects of being human. When we see, act or engage in Bottom up ways, we push our Bottom up epigenetic buttons. This stimulates epigenetic factors to unfold, blossoming into new ways of seeing, being and doing. Today, that re-awakening is well under way, radically changing the way we live, relate to people, do business and make change happen. Bottom up parenting and epigenetic potentiation: the way humans evolved. Psychologist Darcia Narvaez, author of Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality, argues persuasively that humans, before civilization, developed in Bottom up, hunter-gatherer bands that engaged in ancestral parenting. Children were raised by the entire group. You didn’t put a baby in a separate part of the cave. She stayed with the parents, just as today, attachment parenting encourages baby-led-weaning and keeping baby in the parental bed. Top down parenting puts babies in separate rooms and lets them cry themselves to sleep, practices which indigenous peoples would have seen as life-threatening and stupid. Such parenting potentiated hundreds of epigenetic neurobiological factors, meaning that it allowed the developing child to experience the full, optimal blossoming of hundreds of different brain and neurophysiological elements, producing a good, moral human who was deeply “connection-conscious” (my words). The brain, at birth, is 25% of full adult size, with much growing yet to unfold. Narvaez warns that if the child is not optimally cared for, she develops with impaired moral functioning―meaning damaged relating to others, self and nature. I’ve found most people are familiar with epigenetics. The following example explains why this trend is so powerful. Put a Redwood tree seed, loaded with genetic potential in a cup of sand. What happens? Nothing. Add water and a stunted plant will grow. But plant it in a mature forest, with adequate light and water and the seed can reach its full genetic Redwood potential. Epigenetics explains how genetic programming is repressed or environmentally stimulated to fully blossom. Like the Redwood seed, we each have thousands of epigenetic “seeds” waiting for the right environment to fully blossom. The Bottom up connection revolution is catalyzing your long dormant potentialities. If even a few of your repressed Bottom up epigenetic potentials are unleashed, this book will have done its job. Top down, powerful elites are also tapping this revolution, to further consolidate their power. Top down authoritarian interests will also exploit the ideas and strategies described in this book, because it’s essential, today, to deal knowledgeably with emerging Bottom up changes and trends. Fortunately, there are natural checks and balances. Simply using Bottom up strategies and thinking changes the way your brain works and the way you filter the world, so you become more Bottom up as you “wake up” Bottom up epigenetic neurobiological programming. In order to probe the meaning and potential of Bottom up from every angle, I've interviewed hundreds of leading thinkers on the subject. They include the founders of Twitter, Huffpost, Craigslist and Zipcars; thought leaders like Bernie Sanders, Clay Shirky, Douglas Rushkoff, Joseph Nye and Howard Gardner; and leading whistleblowers, activists, diplomats, marketers, anthropologists and psychologists. All added valuable perspectives relating to three broad areas of inquiry: 1. The roots and science of Bottom up and Top down―civilization, centralization, hierarchy, patriarchy, systems theory, chaos theory, psychology, neurobiology, anthropology, economics, physics (chapter 1) 2. The ways Bottom up is changing our world, and how 3. How to make the most of the Bottom up revolution NYU professor Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, told me that the technologies catalyzing the Bottom up revolution matter, “not just because they change the way people can coordinate with one another... they also matter because they let people imagine that their lives are different from the lives of their parents, from the lives of previous generations. And it lets them imagine that they can do things that previous generations couldn’t do... People have a different sense of themselves and what is possible.” Hopefully, after reading just a small portion of this book you'll begin filtering through Bottom up eyes. You'll better: � understand and tackle challenges � able to tap into the rising tide of connection powering this revolution � understand and use tools for creating new relationships and deepening existing ones. You’ll see your work, customers, employees and bosses in an array of new ways that will change how you work, do government, activism, business, market and create. Some definitions for Top down and Bottom up. The Merriam Webster dictionary website defines “Bottom up” as "progressing upward from the lowest levels (as of a stratified organization or system.)" Dictionary.com defines “Bottom up” as "of, pertaining to, or originating with the common people, nonprofessionals, or the lower ranks of an organization." The Merriam Webster website defines “Top down” as "controlled, directed, or instituted from the top level." These simplified definitions don’t go deep enough. Bottom up and Top down are used in economics, many sciences, programming, civic development―the lists goes on and on. Just as far-north indigenous peoples use over fifty words for snow, understanding the Bottom up connection revolution requires a comparable, nuanced vocabulary. This book will build your Bottom up vocabulary, starting with the chart below.

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