[P2P-F] Fwd: Two short reflections for the turning of the year
Michel Bauwens
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Subject: Two short reflections for the turning of the year
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*What this message is about: In 2014 we can awaken to the fact that we live
in an era of unprecedented privilege, resources, and possibilities entering
an era of unprecedented danger. There is tremendous potential for serious
positive change and collective focus. We don't know how the future will
play out. That means we would be wise to step up as agents of conscious
change AND to focus on resilience in our personal lives and in our
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The dance of danger and opportunity
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by Anodea Judith
Endings and beginnings are essential. Even though one day rolls into the
next and they don’t really differ from each other all that much, there’s
something about starting a new year that’s like getting out a blank canvas.
Still virgin, it begs the possibility of almost anything. We get to create
the reality we want....
[W]e are entering the end of an epoch... along with the beginning of a new
one. We are hospice workers to what is dying and midwives to what is
emerging. And it is we who are birthing this new world, we who are
privileged to live in a time when everything is provided: the roads, the
stores, the internet, houses, cars, airplanes, computers, cell phones. We
live in a time of the greatest privilege humans have ever known.
This privilege gives us enormous capacity to do something.
A good thing, too, because we are simultaneously entering a time of extreme
danger, more dire and daunting than anything humans have faced in our long
journey to now. This will be the year, I predict, that this realization
reaches the general population that climate change, and all the
environmental problems that face us are real and serious. There’s nothing
like common problems to unite a people.
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by Seth Godin
... three ways to deal with the future.
Accuracy is the most rewarding way to deal with what will happen
tomorrow--if you predict correctly. Accuracy rewards those that put all
their bets on one possible outcome. The thing is, accuracy requires either
a significant investment of time and money, or inside information (or luck,
but that's a different game entirely). Without a reason to believe that
you've got better information than everyone else, it's hard to see how you
can be confident that this is a smart bet.
Resilience is the best strategy for those realistic enough to admit that
they can't predict the future with more accuracy than others. Resilience
isn't a bet on one outcome, instead, it's an investment across a range of
possible outcomes, a way to ensure that regardless of what actually occurs
(within the range), you'll do fine.
And denial, of course, is the strategy of assuming that the future will be
just like today....
Most endeavors we participate in offer long-term, generous entrants plenty
of rewards. Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those
competitions, we win by being resilient.
Unfortunately, partly due to our fear of losing as well as our
mythologizing of the winner-take-all, we often make two mistakes. The first
is to overdo our focus on accuracy, on guessing right, on betting it all on
the 'right' answer. We underappreciate just how powerful long-term
resilience can be.
And the second mistake is to be so overwhelmed by all the choices and all
the apparent risk that instead of choosing the powerful path of resilience,
we choose not to play at all. Denial rarely pays.
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