THE 3 THINGS HUMAN BEINGS NEED TO SURVIVE
TO THE NEXT 100 YEARS CHALLENGES#FutureOf
Massimo Cardaci – 20.10.2013
If you ask people what are the 3 factors
allowing Human Beings to survive to the next 100 years’ challenges, the
responses will aggregate around 3 themes
(1)
FOOD and WATER
Yes
Food and water are a primary biological need for life survival
But…
There are many people dying for having too much food…
There are many people suicide even if they have sufficient food…
There are many people surviving with insufficient food.
(2)
WORLD PEACE
Of course
If we have a global nuclear war…
But…
The history of human beings shows that there were always wars (big and small) and some people always survived…
There are a lot of people in peaceful countries killed by a fight with the neigh borough…
(3)
MEDICINES
Naturally
Medicines increase human beings’ capability
to survive to old and new diseases
But…
Still the history of human beings shows that there were always new diseases for which there was not a cure and human beings always found ways to survive…
Absence of food and water kills more than medical diseases.
All these are for sure useful.
Probably necessary.
But are they sufficient?
So, what do we really need?
(1)
RESILIENCY
“Resiliency” is not “Resistance” and is not
“Strength of will”
Resistance is what allows to say:
“I will break, but I will never bend!”
Strength of will is what allows:
waking up regularly at 5am to go running to stay fit, or
to stop smoking, or
working 14 hours per day to get a reward or promotion.
Resilience is what allows
to absorb the hits of the life and restart;
to bend under these hits, but then to stand again;
to feel the energetic pressure of the many “no”, humiliations, injustices, life and medical
issues, and then, against any logic and sometimes human comprehension, to start
again.
(2)
NETWORKING
Each resilient human being is like a drop of water.
S/He is powerful, but his resiliency has a limit: a big fire may vaporize the
water drop
But if you join enough drops, you have an ocean,
and even the strongest fire will not have a chance.
That’s Networking: building a worldwide net
of resilient drops across national, cultural, gender and
age borders
(3)
TIME MANAGEMENT
To be resilient, we must ensure we have time…
to recover from life hits
to control and re-set our list of values
to build, feed and grow the network with other resilient drops, starting from your own family
Time is the only good that has not a price: you cannot buy it
Everyone knows it’s precious, but we always waste it
and it does not return
Concrete and effective Time Management
applied to our whole life
is really required to support Resiliency.
THANK YOU!
More about me:LinkedIn Profile: Massimo Cardaci [English]
Volunteer activities:Handicap: www.orsaminore.org [English/Italian]Ethical Economy: www.edc-consulting.org [Italian]Time Management: www.time-management.it [Italian]
Some Publications: www.lulu.com/spotlight/maxcardaci- Book on Time Management: “Would you change 25 minutes?” [Italian]- Books on History of Science: “Spots on the Sun? Are you joking, right?” [Italian]