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