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]