PEOPLE MAKE CHANGE HAPPEN | MARKETING MYTHBUSTERS

In this brief presentation, the speaker challenges the common belief that social and behavioural change occurs automatically over time, likening that misconception to expecting weather to change on its own. He argues that real change is driven by people, citing historic movements such as the abolition of slavery and the fight for women's rights as examples where individuals and groups deliberately created change. The speaker stresses that merely wanting to build a community or start a movement is insufficient; a movement requires a powerful, provocative point of view that sparks a "lightbulb moment" in people, shifting their thinking from the status quo to a new perspective. The core message is that change in attitudes and behaviours does not happen by itself—people, like the audience, must actively make it happen.










