Why ten democracy muscles?

Find out why democracy needs a balance of skills, from expressing opinions and taking action to listening, empathy and curiosity.

Video transcript

Why is there ten muscles? The ten muscles is because democracy is a balance. We are not good at everything, of course. I can be strong at something that you are not that strong at, and the other way around.

The ten muscles shows that it's not only verbal self -confidence, opinion, disagreement, activism that is valuable in democracy. It's also the active listening, the empathy, the curiosity and the courage that you need to actually involve yourself in a democracy.

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