Want to Change the World? Start by Sharing Your Knowledge
In October 1904, during a thirty-six-hour train journey from Johannesburg to Durban, Mahatma Gandhi read Unto This Last by John Ruskin, a book that would radically alter the course of his life.
Reflecting on that night, Gandhi said, “I could not get any sleep. I was determined to change my life by the ideals of the book.”That one book helped sow the seeds for the Phoenix Settlement, a community based on self-reliance and equality, and ultimately became the foundation for Gandhi’s philosophy of non-violence and Satyagraha, which led India to independence.
Remarkably, these now-famous principles were not born of Gandhi himself, but borrowed and refined from Ruskin’s writing. This chain of influence did not end there; leaders like Martin Luther King Jr.
and Nelson Mandela also drew from Gandhi’s legacy to spark powerful social change.The lesson? Ideas, when shared, tested, and embraced, can ripple outward in ways their originators may never imagine.Everyone has the capacity for great ideas, but not everyone shares them.
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