Spiral Dynamics Stage Yellow Examples Mega-Thread

[Key Elements]

 

 

 

 

 

[legendary]

Reality is a Strange Loop

[Bobby]

@Leo Gura have you watched any of Patterson in Pursuit? It's a goldmine.  

 

^ VERY VERY COOL

Edited July 8, 2018 by Bobby
vid didn't embed first time

[Bobby]

amazing interview of Bernardo Kastrup: highly reccomend

showcases yellow & late yellow/ early turquoise

[Viking]

I feel like simon sinek is very yellow, the way he analyzes stuff and presents it.

in this point of the video he explains why people get angry at CEO's, he seems pretty neutral about it and he gets to the root.

 

[art]

8 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Hey, ya'll, I need your help!

I want to create a comprehensive list of video examples of prototypical stage Yellow thinking.

This is not meant to humiliate or demonize stage Yellow. It's meant to be an educational tool for people learning about Spiral Dynamics.

So towards that end, scour Youtube and find all the videos you can which exhibit stage Yellow thinking. Try to find videos which are short and sweet. The more diversity we can display here, the better. Try to find examples from various cultures: Europe, Middle East, Asia, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, Africa, South America, etc.

We will create a mega-thread like this for every stage in the Spiral, from Red to Turquoise. But here, let's just focus on Yellow. Each week I will start a new mega-thread topic for the next stage.

Do not start a political debate in this thread! It is not our goal here to defend our personal political positions or to judge any stage, but simply to compile examples.

Thanks for your help! I'm excited to see what kind of juicy stuff you dig up. Try to be selective with your choices.

This can turn into a really cool list.

Stage Yellow Values:

• Nuance & complexity
• Openmindedness
• Perspective
• Novel concepts & POVs
• Generating fresh insights
• Understanding
• Systems thinking
• Nonlinear dynamics
• Sustainability, long time frames
• Going meta
• Big picture vs technical analysis
  • Holistic analysis
  • Synthesis
• Connecting the dots
• Penetrating to the core of an issue
  • Identifying & solving root problems
• A multi-disciplinary approach
  • Mixing hard & soft sciences
• Creativity, outside-the-box solutions
• Ecology
• Responsible ways of being
• Studying models
• Spiral Dynamics
• Natural hierarchies
• Education, knowledge, research, reading
  • Reading lots of diverse books
• Clean content, concentrated information
• Life-long learning
• Expertise, competence, experience
• Context, learning from history
• Developing skills to become an instrument for the greater whole
• Independent thinking
• Neutrality: Being objective/impartial
• Designing solutions for the entire Spiral
• Meeting people where they are at
• Building bridges
• Social engineering
• Ecological designs
• Reducing the suffering of living systems
• Pulling ideas from many sources
• Combining different ideas, models, theories
• Left-brained
• Vision & purpose, being a visionary
• Requisite variety, mental flexibility
• Self-actualization
• Paradox
• Uncertainty
• Responsibility, independence, autonomy
• Being a lone-wolf

Stage Yellow Examples:

Abraham Maslow, Eben Pagan, Noam Chomsky, Fritjof Capra, Carl Sagan, quantum mechanics, fathers of quantum mechanics, David Bohm, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrodinger, Arthur Eddington, Richard Feynman, Freeman Dyson, John Archibald Wheeler, Paul Feyerabend, Kurt Godel, Obama, George Soros, Joseph Campbell, Erich Fromm, Clare Graves, Don Beck, Spiral Dynamics, Ilya Prigogine, chaos theory, cybernetics, biomimetics, NLP, Alfred Korzybski, the leading edge of academia, futurists, StarTrek humans & Vulcans, Prime Directive, sustainable living, ecology, eco cities, conflict resolution, Shinzen Young’s mindfulness system, Wikipedia, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jacques Derrida, Buckminster Fuller, W.V.O. Quine, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Steve Jobs, Paul Allen, Elon Musk, Joe Rogan

Really Eben Pagan Yellow, Leo? How come? He seems like a heavy materialist workaholic type and earlier pickup-artist?

[Doodle]

http://complexitylabs.io

[QandC]

There are some Orange characteristics in there but also a lot of Yellow

Edited July 8, 2018 by QandC

[Spinoza]

1 hour ago, Viking said:

I feel like simon sinek is very yellow, the way he analyzes stuff and presents it.

in this point of the video he explains why people get angry at CEO's, he seems pretty neutral about it and he gets to the root.

 

I don't think he is yellow

[Curious]

 

[ae1]

it is about 1% of population in this society that possess some tier 2 thinking, but to be considered fully tier 2 there are not many.

Edited July 8, 2018 by ae1

[hedge]

Check out my man Noam Chomsky not getting triggered by Ali G:

 

[Viking]

24 minutes ago, Spinoza said:

I don't think he is yellow

maybe you're right, I dont know him very well, seemed like it from a few videos i watched.

[d0ornokey]

@hedge this is fucking hilarious 

wait is that guy a comedian?

okay, he said cunnilingual... hahahaha

Edited July 8, 2018 by d0ornokey

[Sea]

There's quite a few examples here already that are below yellow. 

[Bobby]

London Real-- highly highly reccomend

[lmfao]

@Sea well yellow is hard to find. The fame and popularity of a person is partially determined by the degree to which they resonate with a large number of people. For instance, if you're at yellow but everyone else is at orange, you're going to find it harder to resonate with people then an orange person trying to resonate with other orange people. 

I'm not sure if this is just an assumption of mine, but I hold the belief that the wisest people in any situation are more likely to just be quiet and carefully observe. The smartest people I've met have always been the most quiet and humble. After all, excessively talking and debating with other people often doesn't lead anywhere, and so it is perhaps that wise people just avoid doing so. And so it will be hard to find examples of wisdom being explicitly exhibited. 

Edited July 8, 2018 by lmfao

[ae1]

@lmfao Higher stages can normally interact with lower stages, even if they don't completely resonate with them. But if they start to try convert lower stages to tier 2 thinking, they will resist. Tier 2 has to kinda lower themselves when being around tier 1 stages, otherwise they start to see them as not part of their group. 

[Leo Gura]

It will be much harder to find examples of Yellow than Blue, Orange, Green. Especially short stereotypical snippets. Yellow doesn't lend itself to easy ridicule and stereotyping. That's sorta the point.

[Clayman]

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