Dr. Todd Rose
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Like even people who, his fellow revolutionaries were like, this is so naive.
They have all the guns.
You're going to defeat them with authenticity and personal responsibility?
But they did.
And here's what's crazy.
Nobody saw it coming.
The CIA completely missed it.
The KGB missed it entirely.
Even Havel himself didn't appreciate how fast it could change when it was an illusion.
Just a few months before the student protest that led 12 days of protest, government falls.
He's interviewed in an international magazine, and he's trying to rally the troops.
And he's like, look, revolutions take time.
You have to be committed.
He's like...
Look, I probably won't even be alive to see the end of this, but I am in it, right?
Three months later, he was the first democratically elected president of a free Czechoslovakia.
That's what I mean when I say, when the problem is an illusion, two things, only we can solve it.
It didn't require somebody from on high telling us something.
It was the everyday people learning to live in truth.
in small ways that start to build habit that lead to a, we believe we believe this now, right?