“Perspective is worth 50 points of I.Q.”

A friend told me that this week. I don’t know if it’s true, but I like the sentiment!

That’s the theme of this note: perspective. The Neue Geo team has been hard at work to bring Members new ways to gain those 50 I.Q. points of fresh perspective.

Here are two unique invitations for you to gain uncommon perspective on how the rest of the world thinks.

• First, do you want to bring Unsettling Questions into a gathering of Chinese, Russian and Pakistani thought leaders this week?
• Second, do you want to take part in a global human “Signal Network” video series?

Coming soon: even more fun and challenging invitations to think together. I’m really looking forward to the Weak Signals BaseCamp on May 31…Details to follow.

🙏Chris

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Where do non-Western thinkers
think the world is headed?

On Wednesday, May 25, a trio of influential thinkers from Russia, China and Pakistan is getting together to rethink geopolitics in the wake of the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Want to shape their conversation? Here’s your chance.

Our Society has been exclusively invited by the moderator to supply them with “Unsettling Questions” to inspire new thinking and provoke deep learning.

This is an experiment. It may go badly! But it feels worth trying. Can we do “new thinking together”? Or is the gap between civilizations too great?

Let’s find out. Submit your One Question here, and help shape new global narratives.

(Society Members: You’ll get some exclusive footage from their video roundtable that no one else will get to see.)

The roundtable participants will be:

• From Pakistan – Professor Ejaz Akram, Advisor to former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan
• From Russia – Professor Aleksandr Dugin, considered by some to be “Putin’s philosopher”
• (Moderator) From China – Professor Zhang Weiwei, Advisor to Chinese President Xi Jinping

Their theme is “Convergence of Civilizations” and they plan to talk about:

• An end to globalization? Is the global economy going to break into two rival blocs?
• A new global financial system? What are Russia and China doing to weaken the power of future sanctions against them?
• A new global narrative? Does the non-Western world have a shared story to tell? What is it?

What One Question would you ask them, to help their conversation get somewhere new?

(If you're not a Member, join the Society to get the exclusive clips after the event.)

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Help launch a global human Signal Network.

Neue Geo is developing Signals, a video series of interviews co-produced by a global alliance of Society Members, who ask the same question to “people on the street” wherever they live. Each episode, we’ll all learn how the same questions get heard differently in different parts of the world.

Some of the details are still TBD, but if you'd like to “signal” your interest (ha ha) , you can do that here. (You don’t need to be a seasoned video-journalist to take part; in fact, it’s a fun chance to dabble in the field.)

(If you do ultimately join the Signal Network, you'll be expected to become a Member of Neue Geo – if you’re not one already.)