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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After seeing the movie The 11th Hour, I have been thinking a lot about The Eldering Institute. The idea all along has been a strategy for mobilizing a lot of people, both retired and younger to “take on intractable problems”. The foundation for this has been the observation that most older people want to make a difference and leave the planet in better shape than we found it, and younger people are faced with a sufficiently uncertain future that most would love to have partnerships with older people if there could be an authentic relationship—one based on mutual learning, respect and appreciation for the differences between our world views. Finally, the idea of Eldering recognizes that most of the larger ‘problems’ confronting us are paradigmatic in nature. This means that ordinary thinking and attempts to ‘fix’ things won’t work. We must create a new paradigm and doing so requires that all of us participate. No one has “the answer”, but together we can create possibilities that neither of us can see without the other.[ 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”. [ Read More]
Written by Jim Selman at Wisdom in Action
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Don and Steve are executive coaches who specialize in working with clients approaching their “second half’ to create what is next in their lives. Sometimes this takes the form of starting new business ventures. Sometimes it has to do with preparing for post-retirement transitions. Now I know that ‘coaching’ has become a term all kinds of folks are selling (and not always with sufficient education or experience) but these guys are among the best. Don will be contributing to this blog in coming weeks. All three of us have noticed a shift that occurs as people mature in their careers and approach retirement—a change from looking for ‘productivity and status’ to looking for ‘satisfaction and contribution’. It turns out this isn’t as easy as it sounds. Whether one is in corporate management or working in a home environment, most of us have mastered organizing our lives around the needs and wants of others. In fact, most people are hooked on ‘doing’ and don’t have a lot of practice or support for learning to just ‘be’ themselves, which is what satisfaction is all about. [ Read More]
Written by Jim Selman at Retirement
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