A generation ago, the typical arc of a young man’s life followed a predictable script: graduate, get a job, move out, maybe get married, build a life. Today, that script is in shreds—and for a growing cohort of young men in the West, it’s not being rewritten so much as left blank.
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The Riverboat Metaphor: A Fable of Modern Times
The story follows Captain Elijah Bromley and his failing crew aboard the vessel Providence as they navigate a treacherous river. Amid neglect and outdated knowledge, their disarray leads to a catastrophic storm. The tale illustrates that a ship, much like life, requires attentive navigation and cohesive effort, as small failures can culminate in disaster.
Today’s Meditation
It’s about 55 years since Alvin Toffler published the popular book, Future Shock. In it he said the current lifetime witnessed more change than in the previous 800 lifetimes combined! He said we would eventually experience a Future Shock, similar to culture shock, in which people lose a sense of familiarity and feel routinely disoriented.IsContinue reading “Today’s Meditation”
Unveiling the Power of Feedback: Navigating Relationships and Ideas
Introduction: Feedback is a fundamental force that shapes our interactions, relationships, and the evolution of ideas. Whether we are aware of it or not, feedback mechanisms play a crucial role in steering the course of our personal and professional lives. This article aims to introduce the concept of feedback to those who may be unfamiliarContinue reading “Unveiling the Power of Feedback: Navigating Relationships and Ideas”
Common Reactions to Chaos
Due to the growing complexities of modern living, we face more pressures and distractions. Negative psychological reactions and coping mechanisms can arise when individuals struggle to deal with excessive change, uncertainty, chaos, and frustration. It’s important to recognize these responses in order to address them effectively. Here are several negative psychological reactions and coping mechanisms:Continue reading “Common Reactions to Chaos”
Use Long-Term Memory or Lose it!
Problem: As we get busier and more distracted, we lose more long-term memory, capacity for recall, and even collective memory. This is because, in order to increase our pace to keep up with change, we are constantly practicing and reinforcing quick intuitive and instinctive thinking, while avoiding deliberation. Deliberation is slow and takes effort, butContinue reading “Use Long-Term Memory or Lose it!”
Stress
Stress is drive. Too little stress and nothing gets done. Too much and you collapse. You want the Goldie Locks zone where your stress level is optimum for performance. Manage your stress level or you may enter a vicious circle – at some tipping point additional stress reduces your capacity to manage stress. Stress makesContinue reading “Stress”
Chant to soul-finding path
Chant, rhythm and song are an ancient and perhaps universal path to meditation and maybe even enlightenment. Different cultures have their own approach. Here is a sampling to fill your mind with a profound emptiness. Meditation is a way for the seer to see the seer within. South Asia – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vq6Ot2RiEc Central Europe – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng9sSR7qBAEContinue reading “Chant to soul-finding path”
Simplify Our Worldviews
As the total volume of published and shared knowledge continues to accelerate, each of us gets a diminishing portion of the total knowledge. What does this mean? It means that there is an increasing probability that people you are communicating with will not share the same knowledge and assumptions. What does this mean? It meansContinue reading “Simplify Our Worldviews”
Listen to your better Angels within
Listen to your better angels within. While in training for cognitive coaching years ago, I learned that people under stress resort to their areas of greatest strengths. This means that whatever are your dominant talents, dispositions, or personality traits, these will become more pronounced in your thinking. From an evolutionary psychology POV, this is probablyContinue reading “Listen to your better Angels within”
Randal Adcock 