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The Jordan Harbinger Show

448: Srdja Popovic | Blueprint for Revolution

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Science, Business, Education

4.812.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Srdja Popovic (@SrdjaPopovic) is the author of Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World.

What We Discuss with Srdja Popovic:
  • What do revolutions and businesses have in common?
  • Why nonviolence is more popular -- and more effective -- than violence.
  • Why there are no charismatic leaders in the most successful revolutions.
  • How to make a revolution cool by using comedy.
  • How was ’90s Serbia like Middle Earth in the Third Age of The Lord of The Rings (Hobbits and all)?
  • And much more...

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0:00.0

Coming up on the Jordan Harbinger Show.

0:02.2

My grandma would go in, she was in her 70s, she could never go in the street and demonstrate

0:08.1

because you know, police hits in, she will break an ankle.

0:11.3

She was on her window, she was hitting her pot, that she was cooking a soup for me a

0:15.8

day before, so everybody was involved.

0:18.2

So you will look at the tactics, which are low risk, dispersive, everybody can participate

0:23.7

and very, very important, everybody can get away with it.

0:27.4

Because if people get away with it and feel fun and feel good about doing something for

0:31.8

their purpose, they're very likely to participate in our movement in the future.

0:40.5

Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger.

0:42.4

On the Jordan Harbinger Show we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's

0:46.1

most fascinating people.

0:47.6

If you're new to this show, we have in-depth conversations with people at the top of their

0:51.0

game, astronauts, entrepreneurs, bi-psychologists, even the occasional national security advisor,

0:56.7

legendary Hollywood director, Russian spy, lots of variety here, and each episode turns

1:01.7

our guests' wisdom into practical advice that you can use to build a deeper understanding

1:06.6

of how the world works and become a better critical thinker.

1:10.0

Today we're talking with my friend, Surgea Popovic, author of Blueprint for Revolution.

1:15.0

This is one from the vault, but it's especially pertinent right now.

1:18.1

Surgea was actually one of the organizers of the resistance to slow-but-on Molosevic and

1:22.8

Serbia in the 90s.

1:24.5

So this is an interesting conversation, maybe seems a little off topic, but I think psychology,

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