How to transfer ancient wisdom to future generations
I am of great luck to be introduced a year ago by my friends from Helsinki to a journey of self-awareness, kindness, and giving. One small talk after not-a-party side-event @Slush’18 now influenced probably dozens of lives around me. I’ve created my purpose and learned what reciprocity is. Meditation, the practice of mindfulness, going deep in the sauna with ancient drumbeat — that all emptied my mind and prepared space to ask a straightforward question — how do we sustain the unwritten and often lost the wisdom of our ancestors and introduce it to the youngest generation in the era of disconnection?
From the playground to loneliness
Disconnection is one of the biggest challenges, being a side-effect of connectivity brought to the world by digital transformation. Often without a purpose or knowing the result of the implementation, we create e-governments, remote meetings, digital banking, post boxes, or other automated services. We preprogram new generations for losing common ground with a great source of wisdom — nature, which human beings are a part of. Loneliness is another result of the abovementioned, as it massively affects older adults. Their brain is not quick or flexible as young ones, slowly processing new input, which makes them feel like foreigners in the society they were part of for their…
