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Empathy: Key to Effective Action from Charles Eisenstein
Cultivating empathy for the next crisis by Joe Brewer
"A central question for this moment in history is how do we collectively navigate a crescendoing wave of crises and move toward planetary resilience and thriving? "....it is our task — those of us alive in the early 21st Century — to ride out the storm keeping our humanity intact. This means we need to know with certainty what it means to be human. There are a lot of people spreading false stories about what it means to be human. "Now is the time to tell a different story. One based on the … Continue reading
We are Built to be Kind
Greed is good. War is inevitable. Whether in political theory or popular culture, human nature is often portrayed as selfish and power hungry. UC Berkeley psychologist, Dacher Keltner, challenges this notion of human nature and seeks to better understand why we evolved pro-social emotions like empathy, compassion and gratitude. We've all heard the phrase 'survival of the fittest', born from the Darwinian theory of natural selection. Keltner adds nuance to this concept by delving deeper into … Watch video
