By Peter Senge
Events in one place can literally echo around the world in a matter of hours or even minutes. We are realizing that our lives are affected by many people who are different from us.
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Branchings of belief from the lovely common root of “holy” and “whole” in the interleaving of all things.
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One trait of highly successful people is having a positive outlook on life, always moving forward, always learning – especially when it’s hard. We’re not typically grateful for the “worst” things in our lives. If we want to have a growth mindset, we should be.
No matter how great your life may be, you will eventually deal with disappointments, setbacks, failures, and even loss and trauma.
Facing oncoming climate disaster, some argue for “Deep Adaptation”—that we must prepare for inevitable collapse. However, this orientation is dangerously flawed. It threatens to become a self-fulfilling prophecy by diluting the efforts toward positive change.
The Four Horsemen of my apocalypse are called Efficiency, Convenience, Profitability, and Security, and in their names, crimes against poetry, pleasure, sociability, and the very largeness of the world are daily, hourly, constantly carried out.
Behind the urgency of climate action is the understanding that everything is connected; behind white supremacy is an ideology of separation.
Satish Kumar walked 8,000 miles to spread the message of peace around the world. Here he gives his recipe for a better world.
A deeper issue underlies each one’s part in the malaise enveloping the planet’s ecosystems—and its origins date back to long before the industrial revolution. To truly bring ourselves into harmony with the natural world, we must return to seeing humanity as part of it.
In low seasons, while you sit in the waiting room of life, patience is a superpower. But by adopting these seven mindsets, you can run circles around life’s challenges.
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The biggest question that Jared Diamond is asking himself is how to turn the study of history into a science.