Endnotes of Hope²Change Print Publications

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• Aristotle — In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle called hope “a waking dream.”

• Arnheim, Rudolf — In Art and Visual Perception(1954), Arnheim explored Gestalt principles of perception, influencing the H2C emphasis on figure and ground.

• Buckminster Fuller — Famously said, “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

• Carl Jung— Jung observed that people do not solve their problems but rather outgrow them, an idea echoed in the pulse of realization.

• Egbert Frameworks — Hope²Change, Structure–Intention–Agency, TAOJE, and Strike Point Practice are original contributions of James L. Egbert (2025).

• Gallup Research — A Gallup global study (2025) found “hope” was the top trait people seek in leaders, cited by 56% of respondents worldwide.

• John Donne — Wrote in Meditation XVII(1624), “No man is an island” and “never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee,” illustrating universal interconnection.

• Martin Fritz — Fritz’s concept of “structural tension” explains how change arises by holding the current reality against the desired state.

• Michelangelo— The line “I saw the angel in the marble…”is a later paraphrase; in 1547 he wrote that “the sculptor arrives at his end by taking away what is superfluous.”

• Otto Scharmer — In Theory U (2009), Scharmer introduced “presencing,” the practice of being open to what wants to emerge.

• Peter Senge — In The Fifth Discipline(1990), Senge described systems thinking as the cornerstone for learning organizations.

• Peter the Apostle — In the New Testament, Peter describes hope as “a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ” (1 Peter 1:3).

• Proverbs (Scripture) — Wisdom literature often describes hope as a guiding light in times of uncertainty (e.g., Proverbs 13:12: “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.”).

• Ray Kurzweil — In The Singularity Is Near (2005), Kurzweil popularized the idea of the technological singularity through exponential trendlines.

• Stephen Covey — In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989), Covey articulated proactive change as habit one: “Be Proactive.”

• Vernor Vinge — Coined the term “technological singularity” in his 1993 essay The Coming Technological Singularity, describing it as a horizon beyond prediction.

• Viktor Frankl — In Man’s Search for Meaning(1946), Frankl wrote that those who found meaning, even in suffering, were most likely to endure.

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