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It was written to help people apply the principles of human progress and bottom-up empowerment, which had transformed Charles' life and the lives of many others. Charles was initially struggling to write it and Brian helped him complete it.
So I started on this book five years ago after I finished good profit and I had other people working with me until I had a book but I was about to give up.
— Episode: 437: Charles Koch & Brian Hooks | Bottom...
Episode: 437: Charles Koch & Brian Hooks | Bottom-Up Soluti...
It was written to help people apply the principles of human progress and bottom-up empowerment, which had transformed Charles' life and the lives of many others. Charles was initially struggling to write it and Brian helped him complete it.
So I started on this book five years ago after I finished good profit and I had other people working with me until I had a book but I was about to give up.
And it's not what I want. It didn't go to convey. I don't know how to do it.
So I said, Brian, either I quit on this or you come in and straighten me out. Guide me.
And that's the case in the book. And that's how we came up with a decent book because of him.
Yeah. And the premise of the book is one of the premise size premises of the book. It doesn't sound right when I say it that way, but it is is bottom up empowerment not top down.
Episode: 437: Charles Koch & Brian Hooks | Bottom-Up Soluti...
It was written to help more people utilize the principles of human progress and bottom-up empowerment, which the author had experienced transforming his life and the lives of others.
And that's basically why I wrote the book and most basically it was to help many more people apply the principles of human progress of bottom up empowerment that had transformed my life and I've seen it transform many many others.
The premise of the book is one of the premise size premises of the book. It doesn't sound right when I say it that way, but it is is bottom up empowerment not top down.
And that's the way we built the company and that's the way we do our philanthropy and our social change efforts.
In the book you mentioned that people are more able and free to act on their gifts when they're unencumbered and when people can't contribute society is measurably worse off and I tend to agree with that right we tend to force the square peg through the round hole when it comes to putting people in jobs and getting education as we just discuss
And so our partnership with George Soros is foundation the Open Society Foundation on foreign policy. I think it's a great example of that.
