Change the world! Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish. Learn the HungryPeople Manifesto!

1. The HungryPeople Manifesto
http://hungrypeople.posterous.com
This is a manifesto about YOU.
Are YOU Hungry?
Let's eat...
• Create Chaos. Find Order. Time and time again, researchers, writers and scientists have stumbled
into major discoveries by thriving in a chaotic environment. Order and discoveries are made in the middle of a
mess. Companies and people thrive in a crisis. Newton stumbled into the idea of gravity when an apple
accidentally fell. Edison invented the light bulb after a thousand tries. Yunus established Grameen Bank under
a bureaucratic banking system in Bangladesh. The simple equation is Chaos = Crisis =
Opportunity.
• Take the Extreme Point Of View (EPOV). Articulate it well. Debate is a wonderful
platform. It engages the mind. Speakers engage their audience and each other. When YOU take a strong
point of view, YOU “secretly” challenge others to think. When people meet people with strong personalities,
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they light up. They take notice. If YOU can't articulate your position well, you don't have a position.
equation is from Seth Godin – if you can't describe your position in 8
words or less, you don't have a position. Apple stands for cool products. Toyota for
innovation. Wal-mart for price savings. Oprah Winfrey for the ideal woman. And Richard Branson for the
daring entrepreneur.
• Passion is the name of the game. It is the game. Whoever has more, WINS! In the
words of Randy Komisar “Only passion will get you through the tough times... It's
the romance, not the finance that makes business worth pursuing.” Passion is
why YOU get up in the morning. Passion is why you stay up late at night. So, what is YOUR
PASSION?
• Disrupt the status quo... not by reinventing the wheel but by
inventing something new altogether. Throw the box! You don't even need a box
sometimes. It doesn't even have to be a box. The happiest people on earth DO what they love doing. And
they do it the way they want to DO it. They believe in the Golden Rule but they DO it in a way that IT
CHANGES the WORLD (think Steve Jobs: Make a DENT in the Universe).
• CREATIVITY ! PERIOD!
• Curiosity may have killed the cat. So be a curious dog instead,
nobody wants to kill the dog except the cat. YOU are Unique – so BE UNIQUE.
YOU don't need to do something the way YOUR parents did it. YOU don't need to do anything the way YOUR
teachers would have wanted it. Do it passionately, ask questions. Be a dog, be man's best friend. Serve
your customers (includes family) as if your life depended on it.
• Break all six rules mentioned above comma (and all the rest there is!)
The only way YOU can change the world is by INVENTING YOUR OWN RULES!