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Reinventing Yourself for the Future: The Power of Creative Destruction
Are you feeling overwhelmed by the speed of our modern world?
It’s not only the climate that’s changing rapidly; technology, society, and just about everything you can imagine evolves at an astonishing rate.
Rather than being intimidated by this speed, we should embrace it and use it to our benefit.
“Accelerating our pace”, you say? But we’re already in the midst of a frenzied competition!
Slowing down to speed up
In his book “Thank you for being late”, Thomas Friedman explains that we must teach ourselves to navigate the divide between human adaptability and technological advancement through the principle of resilience.
Don’t be discouraged reading this. The answer does not primarily lie in increasing speed, but also in the mindful cultivation of slowing down.
We seem to live in the age of acceleration, with exponential increases in computing power, economic interdependence, and changes in both the natural world and our collective believe systems.
