Acknowledgements

Individuals Who’ve Helped

Researchers: Stephen Buanyi, Camilla More, Joe Dodd

Publisher: Venetia Butterfield

Literary agent: Caroline Michel

PR: Fiona McMorrough, Annabel Robinson

Copy-editor: Karen Whitlock

Elizabeth Morrison, director of Frazzled Cafes

Natasha Gordon, organizer of Frazzled Cafes

Technology advisor: Peter Read

Sarajane Aris

Paul Gilbert

Margaret Heffernan

Gelong Thubten, monk

The whole team at Penguin

Community

Findhorn: Janet Limb

BedZED: Julia Hawkins, Head of Communication and Policy

GEN-International: Kosha Joubert

Business

Vincent Stanley, co-founder of Patagonia

Bart Houlahan of B Corp

Tim Munden and Jay Brewer at Unilever

Louise Chester, Mindfulness at Work

Education

REAch2 Tidemill Academy in Deptford, London, and Garden City Academy in Letchworth, Hertfordshire

.b Mindfulness in Schools, Richard Burnett, Chris Cullen and Chris O’Neil

Sir Anthony Seldon, previous head of Wellington College, now Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham

Petter Elo, teacher at Hiidenkivi comprehensive school

Susanna Ahvalo, Kilonpuisto school

Lee Daley at TEDTalks, co-founder of an emerging technology called Hello Genius

Technology

Quantum computing: Hartmut Neven, head of Google quantum department, and Peter Read, tech investor

Headspace: Andy Puddicombe and Richard Pierson

Calm: Michael Acton Smith

Food

John Cherry at Regenerative Farming

Tim Spector, microbe and probiotic expert

Nick Barnard, founder of Rude Health

Miguel Toribio-Mateas, a nutritionist who is also a clinical neuroscientist, specializing in probiotics and mental health

World Savers

The Kindness Offensive: David Goodfellow

Samos: Choose Love, Indigo Volunteers, Holly Penalver, Imad Al Suliman, Aslam Obaid and Molly Dignan

Extinction Rebellion: Tamsin Omond and Molly Lipson

Books

Adam Alter: Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked

Richard Barrett: Everything I Have Learned About Values

Peter Bazalgette: The Empathy Instinct: How to Create a More Civil Society

Tal Ben-Shahar: Happier: Can You Learn to be Happy?

Alain de Botton: The School of Life

Rutger Bregman: Utopia for Realists and How We Can Get There

Alex Evans: The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough?

Nir Eyal: Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose your Life

Paul Gilbert: The Compassionate Mind

Yuval Noah Harari: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Johann Hari: Lost Connections: Why You’re Depressed and How to Find Hope

Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter: The Mind of the Leader: How to Lead Yourself, Your People, and Your Organization for Extraordinary Results

Meg Jay: The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now

Nathan H. Lents: Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, From Pointless Bones to Broken Genes

Matthew D. Lieberman: Social: Why Our Brains are Wired to Connect

Leonard Mlodinow: Elastic: Unlocking Your Brain’s Ability to Embrace Change

Mark O’Connell: To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death

Steven Pinker: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Dr Aric Sigman: Remotely Controlled: How Television is Damaging Our Lives

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang: The Distraction Addiction

Henry Timms and Jeremy Heimans: New Power: How It’s Changing the 21st Century and Why You Need to Know

Eric Weiner: The Geography of Bliss

Community

Jan Martin Bang: Ecovillages: A Practical Guide to Sustainable Communities

Eileen Caddy: Flight into Freedom and Beyond

Jonathan Dawson: Ecovillages: New Frontiers for Sustainability

Kosha Joubert and Leila Dregger: Ecovillage: 1001 Ways to Heal the Planet

Joseph C. Manzella: Common Purse, Uncommon Future: The Long, Strange Trip of Communes and Other Intentional Communities

Duncan McLaren and Julian Agyeman: Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities

Frederica Miller: Ecovillages Around the World

Business

Marc Benioff: Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change

Yvon Chouinard: Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

Yvon Chouinard and Vincent Stanley: The Responsible Company: What We’ve Learned from Patagonia’s First 40 Years

Charles Handy: The Second Curve: Thoughts on Reinventing Society

Margaret Heffernan: A Bigger Prize: When No One Wins Unless Everyone Wins

Frederic Laloux: Reinventing Organizations

John Mackey and Raj Sisodia: Conscious Capitalism

Kim Polman and Stephen Vasconcellos-Sharpe (eds): Imaginal Cells: Visions of Transformation

Alec Ross: The Industries of the Future

Douglas Rushkoff: Team Human

Raj Sisodia and Michael J. Gelb: The Healing Organization: Awakening the Conscience of Business to Help Save the World

Raj Sisodia, David B. Wolfe and Jag Sheth: Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose

Education

.b: An Introduction to Mindfulness in Schools

Alex Beard: Natural Born Learners: Our Incredible Capacity to Learn and How We Can Harness It

Sir Ken Robinson: Creative Schools: Revolutionizing Education from the Ground Up

Anthony Seldon: The Fourth Education Revolution: Will Artificial Intelligence Liberate or Infantilise Humanity

Food

Louise Foxcroft: Calories and Corsets: A History of Dieting Over 2,000 Years

Tim Spector: Spoon-Fed: Why Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Food is Wrong

Bee Wilson: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

World Savers

Piero Ferrucci: The Power of Kindness: The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life

Nora Gallagher and Lisa Myers: Tools for Grassroots Activists: Best Practices for Success in the Environmental Movement

Paul Hawken: Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming

Professor Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh: The Path: A New Way to Think About Everything