Have you ever had an idea that you thought might help the world a little bit, but felt like you were a crab in a shallow bucket? Have you felt that as soon as you are close to pulling yourself to freedom, others start reaching and pulling you back down? We know that feeling from experience, and it’s easy to become Cynical and Jaded.

Buckminster Fuller said that the key to making your own life a good life was to help make other people’s lives easier. Here’s something that almost everyone overlooks: if you want to prosper, help others. It’s taken quite a few years and quite a few hard-knock lessons, but now we know how to rapidly modify ideas and thrive while making the world a better place in the process. We just might be able to help you with what we’ve already figured out…