Nicole Woods
@nicolejwoods
Nicole Woods
The Future Thinker’s Dilemma
aliveness is so central to meaningful human experience that there’ll always be a market for those who can cultivate it, embed it in what they create, foster it in institutions and organisations, and bring people together to experience it.
We are wired to seek and sustain relationships and cannot survive without them. The future of the human race won’t turn on space travel or climate tech, but on our ability to attach to others. A sense that we matter, that we can call on and be called upon by others to ease burdens and celebrate joy.
Scott Galloway • Mammal.ai
Said differently, society today frames productivity in a way that only sees “doing” and excludes “being”
Thomas Klaffke • Aliveness: Reframing Productivity
Joy is not a function of a life free of friction and frustration, but a function of focus — an inner elevation by the fulcrum of choice.
Maria Popova • 18 Life-Learnings From 18 Years of the Marginalian
In a world where tech commentators confidently declare that we poor ignoramuses haven’t even begun to get our heads around what’s barreling down the tracks towards us, I think it’s good to stay fully, even slightly foolishly, committed to the idea that humans doing human things, with other humans, is and will remain at the vital heart of human exis
... See more“The Official Future” tells us to “think exponentially, act incrementally,” beckoning us to utilize foresight in service of the ever-expanding present systems of quantifying, micro-analyzing, extracting, consuming, and automating. This way of futuring is at the heart of Epistemic Uncertainty. “The Emergent Future” instead challenges us to “ think t... See more
The Future Thinker’s Dilemma
our individual flourishing is inextricably linked to the wellbeing of those around us
327 / Individual growth, collective crisis
As author and philosopher Bonnitta Roy would say, we must “dream ourselves awake.”