I Dare You to Be Great

Book excerpt: Polly Higgins is the award-winning author of Eradicating Ecocide and world-renowned international advocate for Ecocide law (www.eradicatingecocide.com). Calling on leaders to step into their greatness as she travels the world advising on a law of Ecocide, she realized that greatness begins with the self. To break the cycles of harm playing out in the world, our Ecocides, is to break the cycles of harm playing out in ourselves as well. I Dare You To Be Great is her third book taking her work into a new level. Long enough to seed greatness, yet short enough to read in a single sitting, this book is designed to inspire fast. I Dare You To Be Great dips into her story as an Earth lawyer as she discovers how we can create a legal duty of care for the Earth a law of Ecocide. We have a choice: break our chains and create a greater freedom, or remain enslaved to an era of Ecocide. Polly invites in a conversation of a different kind; firing up a neural pathway of exploration that takes us into the unknown yet expands our vision of what our legacy could be. Sharing her insights, she sheds a light on what is possible a vision far greater and more beautiful than we have dared before. I dare you to be great go on, stand up and speak out. We get to determine what the future is. Let s engage in the big questions of our time, not the ones we already know the answers to. Ask questions big ones that make a difference. And once you find the answer, let s make it happen. This is a book unlike any other. It does not tell you what you must do, it does not set out a guide or the 10 definitive steps to becoming great by next Thursday - it does so much more than that. What you have here is a gift. I Dare You To Be Great is an invitation of the most exciting kind. The treasure inside these pages has yet to be explored by you. This book provides keys and tools that if fully turned, will open pathways for you and for our society as a whole to become truly great. What this book does is light your rocket within; now all you need do is strap yourself in and take off. I Dare You To Be Great combines the best of both worlds; self-development with ecological care. The intent of this book is to touch that space within each of us where we yearn for something far greater, where we know deep within ourselves that life can be beautiful, where we sense that something far more profound is at play. When we tap into what Polly Higgins calls greatness an even bigger truth emerges: that life has greater freedom ready for manifesting. Dip in and discover what it s like when we Dare To Be Great"