Teens interviewing Glen

AnnaSilverberg March 2nd

✨ Hay you wonderfuls! ✨

Our brilliant teens had some fantastic questions for our brilliant @GlenM

(And @CommunityModAnne had a question too) 🤭

And Glen took the time to answer them all!

Yes! Every single question!

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Now🤔

So this doesn't get too long, I'll be posting this in a two post series.

So 😲 Stay tuned!!

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@CommunityModAnne

What is your best tip for community mods and other leaders supporting teens on 7 Cups?

GlenM

Practice high warmth and high expectations.
This is the way you bring out the best in others.

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@DarkerPlaces

If u could only eat food from 1 country for a whole week which country's food would u choose?

GlenM

Warm chocolate croissants from Italy. 🥐
Preferably by the sea with a delicious cup of coffee in the sun.

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@Kitsies

7cups has 3 different ways that members and listeners can interact with each other;
forums, group chats, and 1-1 conversations.
All of these are distinct and offer different types of support.
I would like to ask Glen, focusing specifically on teens in your response,
what are the challenges that each of these 3 pillars of cups currently face from your perspective and what steps are being taken to work on improving these areas? 🤔

GlenM

Great insight and good question. The core of 7 cups is caring for one another.
That is the underlying central energy/goal/impulse.
That occurs through the 3 mechanisms you’ve outlined.
The mechanisms are also designed to promote that sense of better caring for one another (all of our game mechanics like hearting, badges, points, just-in-time-training etc.).
Beyond these parameters, the 3 mechanisms are mostly
neutral - like blank canvases - where a person enters info.
For example, think of a book - a book is a very old technology.
Books can be good, neutral, or bad. What matters is the text/structure etc.
of the story or book. It is the same with the 3 mechanisms you described.

The more we heal as individuals and as a community the
better the content/care/love/compassion we send to others.
Therefore, the very best thing we can do is help one another heal and recover
so we can do a better job of caring for one another.
This then becomes a sort of virtuous circle where it compounds and grows.

We’ve been doing this for 12 years and I can tell you, as a community,
we are a lot better at it now, compared to when we started in 2013 and
we’ll keep making gains - hopefully more significant gains - month over month and year over year.

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@Kitsies
Focusing on teens, are there any plans to change the listener application process? Currently the way that it's set up feels very dated and not adjusted to the way that teens learn today. 🤔

GlenM

No plans, but I’m always open to ideas.
We can experiment and build on what we have.
If you’d like to run some experiments - using the platform as it is - then I’d happily support those efforts!

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@KitKatashi

What do you think is the best advice you have ever given or received
that sticks by you today and has actually contributed to changing your outlook on life's aspects?🙂

GlenM

Love your neighbor as you love yourself. 🙏💓

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@WhiskerLily
If empathy were a school subject, what do you think the final exam should look like?🤔

GlenM

It is a life subject (more important than school) and we are tested each day and every interaction 🙂

Thank you all so so much for reading! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did! 🥳
Thank you Glen for taking the time to answer all our questions!
Want to see the next part? Go here
✨Have a wonderful rest of your day everyone ✨
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GlenM March 2nd

@AnnaSilverberg this was a lot of fun! Thank you to our teens for very thoughtful questions. I appreciate you all looking out for one another and helping us to make 7 Cups a welcoming and supportive environment for teens around the world! 🙏💗