Alan Watkins > Quotes

“the reason we are so focused on time management as opposed to energy management is because it’s easier.”
― Alan Watkins, Coherence: The Secret Science of Brilliant Leadership

“Any complex system that has a repeating signal, pattern, beat or rhythm will always synchronize to the strongest and most powerful ‘pendulum’ or beat.”
― Alan Watkins, Coherence: The Secret Science of Brilliant Leadership

“Wicked problems are social problems. Global warming requires individuals to change what they are ‘doing’ in enough numbers to reverse the damage. But they won’t do that unless their ‘being’ can be changed and they can be connected with enough like-minded individuals through ‘relating’ to push through the change that alters the ‘doing’ and the actual interacting.”
― Alan Watkins, Wicked & Wise: How to solve the world's toughest problems

“from an energy perspective we peak at 25 years old and, if left unchecked, our energy levels decline at roughly 3 per cent every year”
― Alan Watkins, Coherence: The Secret Science of Brilliant Leadership

“The problem of course is that the link between IQ and performance is ‘distinctly underwhelming’ (Gladwell, 2010).”
― Alan Watkins, Coherence: The Secret Science of Brilliant Leadership

“Mismanaged emotion is the ‘superhighway’ to disease and distress. Your emotions not only determine whether you are likely to become ill and how happy you feel but also determine whether you will do a good job and get promoted.”
― Alan Watkins, Coherence: The Secret Science of Brilliant Leadership

“People don’t buy things because they think they want them; they buy them because they feel they need them!”
― Alan Watkins, Coherence: The Secret Science of Brilliant Leadership

“We are rendered powerless; our voice is silenced by whatever form of elitism is working through a political system that gives us virtually no say while appearing to allow us to participate. As French philosopher Paul Valéry suggested, ‘Politics is the art of preventing people from becoming involved in affairs which concern them.’3”
― Alan Watkins, Crowdocracy: The End of Politics

“Crowdocracy is based on this fundamental Integral principle that ‘everybody is right’ (or ‘true but partial’), and it is simply a putting into action of that principle in as many places as possible when we want truly ‘full-spectrum’ solutions to our problems – particularly our ‘wicked problems’ – where one of the reasons they are ‘wicked’ is that not a wide enough range of developmental and Integral diversity has been taken into account to produce real solutions.”
― Alan Watkins, Crowdocracy: The End of Politics

“a wicked problem: 1. Is multi-dimensional 2. Has multiple stakeholders 3. Has multiple causes 4. Has multiple symptoms 5. Has multiple solutions, and 6. Is constantly evolving”
― Alan Watkins, Crowdocracy: The End of Politics

“Many people spend their life stuck in this ‘meaningless’ swamp of early transpersonal awareness without realizing that it’s just a developmental stage. Instead of moving on to higher levels of consciousness, they wrongly believe it’s something they have to live with and set out on a quest to dull the pain. The two most popular strategies to dull the pain are: anaesthetic; distraction.”
― Alan Watkins, Coherence: The Secret Science of Brilliant Leadership

“What seems apparent, from what we already know, is that the application of this smart crowd principle will increasingly be applied to more and more areas across the societal board, and will end up being a truly evolutionary advancement in culture and consciousness driven by the evolutionary imperative of more and more recognised individuals having more and more say and actual participation in their own affairs. If you want to get really metaphysical about it, a virtually unanimous tenet of the world’s great Wisdom Traditions is that every human being has, not only a relative, conventional, finite Self, but an real, true, ultimate, and infinite Self (which is universally said to be one with God or Spirit). And evolution is, in one of its deepest aspects, the unfolding of more and more individuals as God-realised, as being a genuine manifestation of Spirit here on earth. With each stage of evolution, more and more individuals are accorded the dignity and integrity of being realised as a true manifestation of God – and this is directly manifested in the numbers of individuals that, at each stage of governance, are allowed to have a hand in the actual running of that governing process. This evolutionary unfolding is accompanied by greater and greater degrees of education, of higher ethical capacities, higher capacities for love, care, and compassion; and higher and wider degrees of consciousness and awareness – as their ultimate Spiritual nature comes more to the fore via evolutionary unfolding. Every”
― Alan Watkins, Crowdocracy: The End of Politics