 By Shae Hadden | Bio
Someone was
telling me recently that some of Buddhist temples in Japan are guarded
by two fierce-looking demon-like figures. These guardians of ‘Truth’
are known as ‘Paradox’ and ‘Confusion’. These days, paradox and
confusion seem to be states I alternate between in my quest to discover
who I am and what future I want to create. If I’m not confused, then
I’m trying to embrace something that defies intuition. My ‘truth’ seems
elusive.[ Read More]
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I saw a documentary film last night entitled, “Transformation: The Life
and Legacy of Werner Erhard”. I had heard a lot about it from many
friends who shared some of the ‘heady’ experience of working with him
in the 70s and 80s. The film was a very well done tribute to his work
and to the man I knew. I had expected that the film’s purpose was to restore his reputation
after his departure from the USA following a controversial ‘character
assassination’ piece on CBS’s 60 Minutes. I was pleased that
its focus was more on his work and the broad contribution that he has
made in so many areas of contemporary culture.[ Read More]
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According to Professor Yarrow, a history professor at American
University, it is unpatriotic to retire while you are still in good
health.
"Retiring when you're still in good health isn't just
wrong, it's profoundly selfish and unpatriotic...Dropping out of the
workforce while still in one's prime means ending one's contributions
to America's strength, mortgaging our children's and grandchildren's
future, and leeching trillions of taxpayer dollars from the economy...
If millions of Americans worked until age 67 instead of 62...[they]
would increase national output and personal wealth and keep the labor
force at a healthy level." [ Read More]
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Today is a holiday in Madrid. There must be a million people on the
streets. There is a lots of military pomp, soldiers marching by the
review stand near my hotel, and five planes flying overhead. The
weather is beautiful and life is good. I am always delighted to have a
day off when I am in a city to just experience ‘being here’. Madrid's
downtown core is beautiful—great old buildings, wide avenues, a
magnificent palace with a living monarch, and a great ‘old town’ where
you can almost get a ‘feel’ for the Spanish Inquisition. I like Spain a
lot. If I were to live in Europe, it would be a toss-up between France,
Denmark, England and Spain. These days, warm weather is winning.[ Read More]
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I came across an extraordinary six-minute YouTube video called ‘ The Shift’—a
presentation that blows one’s mind with factoids about the rate of
change in the world. The Shift they are talking about is a ‘paradigm
shift’, meaning our entire worldview, indeed our whole reality, is
being turned upside down and inside out by virtue of technology,
population and the exponentially accelerating rate of change. Whether
we like it or not, our ‘new reality’ challenges our commonsense and
conventional wisdom with ideas like “Knowledge is becoming obsolete
before you learn it”. Joel Barker
sold a videotape in the 1980s called “Discovering the Future: The
Business of Paradigms™” in which he showed that the world is always a
function of our interpretation of it and that, from time to time, for a
variety of reasons, the world transforms in ways that are difficult to
impossible for people to fathom when it is happening.[ Read More]
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I was having a conversation recently with an old friend who is deeply
committed to a spiritual practice intended to release us from the
vicious cycle of ego and our addiction to the material world. I was
sharing about Serene Ambition and my commitment to do what I can to
encourage our generation to ‘make a difference’ and leave the world in
better shape than we found it—to leave a legacy of possibility to those
who come behind us. My friend pointed out that this is a terrific focus for service and
expression of love for human beings and our world. However, she pointed
out, take care that you aren’t trying to leave a legacy to satisfy some
ego-centered ideal.[ Read More]
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The Christmas season is behind us and everyone is heading back to work.
For many (including the self-employed), this has been a two or
three-week holiday from before Christmas until the Monday following New
Year’s Day. It isn’t always easy to get refocused and get back into
gear. Nonetheless, inspired with new (or old) resolutions, I join the
millions who are now focusing on what lies ahead.[ Read More]
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 By Lauren Selman | Bio
I
recently watched one of my favorite shows, "Sex in the City." This show
features four protagonists that constantly prove that 30 is the new 20
and uncovers their relationships in the city of New York. In this
particular episode, the older women were poignantly juxtaposed against
young starlettes to emphasis they're "getting older". The plot
circulated around the question about aging that Carrie posed at the top
of the episode: "Does getting older mean getting wiser?" I
feel that, in the discussion of aging, the concepts of "getting older"
are synonymous with "getting wiser." But is this really the case? [ Read More]
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I always know my ideas are good when everyone else seems to be having
the same ones. A few months ago, we were engaged in discussions about
what Eldering is and had what seemed like a breakthrough at the time in
seeing eldering as the process of “intergenerational collaboration
through which we can create a common future”. Since then I have
discovered that this is not only not a new idea, but one that is taking
off like wildfire. This intergenerational ripple is just beginning with emerging conferences, workshops and articles. By the time the idea reaches academia (as reflected in intergenerational programs in Eckerd College’s prospectus
it is pretty much a given. “Intergenerational” is rapidly becoming a
new buzzword for working on the myriad intractable problems we are
facing on the planet.[ Read More]
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I was speaking about the future with my son recently over an
obscenely large steak at an Argentinian restaurant in Mexico City. We’d
just seen a real ‘shoot ’em up’ film which just happened to be called Shoot ’em Up.
The hero, a kind of homeless James Bond, lives on the street,
reminiscent of Lee Child’s character Jack Reach. They are both tougher
than tough guys, the kind of character who make the bad guys feel bad
that they ever met. Last night’s film was about 500 guys getting wasted
by the hero, including 20 or so in an aerial gunfight while skydiving.
This movie was way over the top. We talked about various film genres
and ended up declaring this will become a cult classic along the lines
of Pulp Fiction and Straw Dogs. This is definitely a guy film.[ Read More]
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