perventilating for talking faster
than I ever had, I was happy just
to be standing. Immediately after,
many TEDsters encouraged me
to develop the hero project more
fully, to scale it up, to develop a
non-profit, to start a foundation,
a business. I even got seed funds
from Pam and Pierre Omidyar,
eBay founders, to do so, and I did.
I went on from this exhilarating
experience to create a San Francisco based non-profit, The Heroic
Imagination Project, HIP.
We are training ordinary people on how to become everyday
heroes by learning how to stand
up, speak out and take wise and
effective action in the challenging situations they face daily at
home, school, business, community and nation. We have developed a full educational program,
based entirely on proven social
psychological research in six areas, as well as a corporate leader-
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ship program designed to encourage heroic leadership. We are also
doing and supporting others’ research on the nature of heroism.
Finally, we are planning a mobile
phone app with daily exercises
for all those who want to start on
the bright path of becoming Heroes-In-Training. If we succeed,
then, we will reverse the score:
evil 0, humanity 1.
I need your help to make this
mission into a national and international movement that has the
potential to change the world for
the better, one hero at a time.
I welcome sponsors and
funders who believe that by
working together we can
all do it — heroically.
Dr. Philip Zimbardo is a
past president of the American
Psychological Association
and a professor emeritus at
Stanford University.
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