3-2-1: On good genes, personal responsibility, and how to appreciate your precious time
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3-2-1: On good genes, personal responsibility, and how to appreciate your precious time
1. Think about people in your life you view as mentors, or role models, or whom you simply most admire. Which specific qualities of theirs come to mind? 2. Imagine one of your children—or a person to whom you are especially close—describing you to others. What are the qualities you’d hope he or she would cite?
Tony Schwartz, Jean Gomes, Catherine McCarthy • The Way We're Working Isn't Working
We are in a planet wide polycrisis. The most important question we can ask ourselves is, “Am I being a good ancestor?”
Short term thinking < Long term thinking.
Yet if we truly wish to become good ancestors, we need to expand our conception of legacy and think of it not just as a route to personal glory or as a bequest for our offspring, but as a practice of everyday life that benefits all future people. We can think of this as a transcendent ‘legacy mindset’, where we aim to be remembered by the generatio
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