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Love as a practical force in how we lead, hold power, and build what lasts. Home of The Love Summit. Essays & conversations below.

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In 2017, John Perkins opened the second day of the Love Summit with a story from the Amazon. An Achuar hunter raised his blowgun toward a bird, then lowered it. The bird was in its mating season, and however hungry his children were that day, its young needed to be born.

“I won’t kill anything that doesn’t give me permission,” he told John.

Decades earlier, the Achuar had told John to go home and help his people change the dream. That’s where the name Dream Change came from, and where the Love Summit began.

Read it on Substack, link in bio.

@jperkinsauthor by @justchooselove

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Imagine a greater intelligence looking down at us, asking what on earth we’re doing here. John Perkins asked a room at the 2017 Love Summit to picture just that. Nine years later, we’re building those intelligences ourselves, teaching them from everything we’ve written and done.

The record isn’t finished. Every choice we make, in how we lead and build and treat one another, is part of what we leave for those who follow.

From Change the Dream, the final essay from the Love Summit archives. Link in bio.

@jperkinsauthor by @justchooselove

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New on Substack: “The Greatest Love Story Ever Written,” ninth in our series from the Love Summit archives.

At the first Love Summit in 2015, David Howitt promised a room at @wiedenkennedy the greatest love story ever written, and told them up front that it wasn’t about two people.

He told it through The Wizard of Oz: the voice that tells us to stick to the safe road, the abyss we fall into after we leave it, and the guides who walk beside us once we’re willing to be helped. By the end, the destination was never Dorothy. It was all of us, and a teaching David learned as a boy, tikkun olam, the repair of the world.

Without David, so much of that first Summit wouldn’t have been possible. Thank you, David, and everyone at @meriwethergroup.

Read it on Substack, link in bio. by @justchooselove

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9 days ago

When enough of us live from that spark inside us, we repair the world.

David Howitt closed his talk at the first Love Summit with a teaching he learned as a boy: tikkun olam, the repair of the world. He found it paired with ruach Elohim, the breath of God, and took from it the idea that this breath lives in each of us.

The words that matter most in his line are “enough of us.” He spent seventeen minutes on one girl in one pair of shoes, and the destination was never Dorothy. Loving ourselves is what lets us show up for one another, and the repair only happens when many of us do it together.

From “The Greatest Love Story Ever Written,” new on Substack. Link in bio. by @justchooselove

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New on Substack: The Like Summit, the eighth essay in our series from the Love Summit archives.

Before Dan Wieden agreed to host the first Love Summit at @wiedenkennedy in 2015, he asked one question: “Are you sure you want to call it the Love Summit?”

Then he stood up in his own building and told a room of leaders why the agency behind @nike’s “Just Do It” had always run on love. Four years after his death, his talk still holds up.

Read it on Substack, link in bio. by @justchooselove

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16 days ago

Dan Wieden built @wiedenkennedy out of people who’d been fired from other agencies and kids straight out of school. The stronger the bonds between very different people, he told us, the healthier the agency.

So here’s the question I’d ask you: who do you work beside, shoulder to shoulder, who is nothing like you? What might change for them, and for everything you make together, if they knew what they meant to you?

Read the full piece on Substack, link in bio. by @justchooselove

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Someone painted HANG MANDELA on a wall outside Johannesburg. Months later a second hand added two letters and it read HANG ON MANDELA. By the time Andrew Sykes passed it for the last time, a third hand had been at work: HANG ONLY MANDELA.

He was twelve, and it was a wall, and he went back to daydreaming.

Fifteen years passed before he learned what had happened twenty miles from that wall, on a June morning in 1976.

His Love Summit talk moves from a country that talked itself out of a war down to one man at a lunch table with a beer he shouldn’t have ordered, and the same thing is happening the whole way down. People saying the true thing first, before they know what it will do.

Hang On Mandela, the seventh essay from the Love Summit archives, is on Substack now. Link in bio. by @justchooselove

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Andrew Sykes went twenty-five years without speaking to his father. In 2007, at a seminar in Chicago, he worked out why, and called South Africa that night, which meant waking him at six in the morning.

His father was quiet for what felt like three days and was probably thirty seconds. He had been waiting through every one of those twenty-five years.

They got five more.

Hang On Mandela, the seventh essay from the Love Summit archives, is on Substack now. Link in bio. by @justchooselove

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New on Substack: Love With a Vengeance.

In October 2017, Nathan Hendricks opened the second morning of the second Love Summit by telling the room how the next half hour would go. He’d explain how the world works, and we weren’t going to like it. Then he’d raise the stakes, and we’d hate that.

Nathan is the chief creative officer of @lpkdesign, the agency that hosted us, and he spent the first half of his talk on the four desires he thinks run business: status, wealth, vengeance, power.

Then he put up a slide he said had nearly killed him to design. It read: I believe in love.

Sixth in a series from the Love Summit archives. Read it on Substack, link in bio. by @justchooselove

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An idea rarely fails because someone disagrees with it.

It gets rescheduled. The person you pitched agreed with you in the room and meant it, then did the arithmetic on the walk back to his own boss’s office, and the arithmetic didn’t come out.

So the ideals that last are the ones built into something that outlives whoever carried them in: an agreement, a legal structure, a room where the affected people are present.

Nathan Hendricks, at the second Love Summit. New on Substack, link in bio. by @justchooselove

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Two people can want the same thing and still spend years talking past each other.

Sarah Severn and Darcy Winslow gave Nike forty-two years between them. They spent seven of those years doing it to each other. It wasn’t the idea that stood between them. It was the way it was being said, and one word in particular that Darcy couldn’t hear past.

Years later, Sarah found a different way to say the same thing, and this time Darcy could hear it.

The Words We Carry, the fifth essay from the Love Summit archives, is on Substack now. Link in bio. by @justchooselove

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Darcy Winslow agreed with Sarah Severn. She had agreed all along.

Sarah would walk into her office and say, ‘This stuff that you’re making.’ Darcy had built her whole career making products for some of the best athletes in the world, and that word landed as a verdict on all of it. She couldn’t hear the message through the word.

Years later, Sarah said the same thing differently, and Darcy could take it in. Nothing about the truth had changed. Only the way it arrived.

The Words We Carry, the fifth essay from the Love Summit archives, is on Substack now. Link in bio. by @justchooselove

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