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What Civic Action Taught Me About Power Reflections After Watching Eric Liu’s TED Talk “Understanding Power” A few days ago, I became deeply involved in a civic action project that left me enthusiastic, humbled, and—surprisingly—reflecting deeply on the nature of power. Not the dramatic and flashy power we associate with national politics , but the everyday power Eric Liu talks about in his TED Talk “Understanding Power”: the silent power, the hidden power, the power we underestimate because we perceive it as too subtle or slow to matter. When I first stepped into my civic-action project, I thought I was simply trying to make a positive change in my community. I didn't realize that the real journey would be about understanding power—how it works, who has it, an...