Mental Freedom

The holidays (Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year…) offer an annual opportunity to reflect on the very biggest questions we can find. But first we need to find those questions. So much is changing so fast in our lives, at work and in our businesses, in our science and society. It’s a struggle to recognise the most valuable questions to ask of all these changes.

We are very poor explorers of life’s greatest unknown.

Rather than pursue a bunch of different agendas to fight climate change, or hunger, or inequality, society’s whole focus should be on making a new Age happen.

Let’s tour the filters that form and maintain the walls of our tunnel vision. Not so we fix them or knock them down, but so we can play with them more, climb over some of them, and begin to discover what our lateral vision might reveal.

Behavioral adaptations that used to guide us can now lead us astray.

Change the frame, change the game.

How can we make “all this” mean something?

I received an unexpected gift this week: a meteorite.

This week, I’m taking the ideas that are coming out of this global Renaissance Expedition to New Zealand, where the Ellen MacArthur Foundation will be hosting Ōhanga Āmiomio, the world’s first Pacific Summit on the Circular Economy.

Last week, I helped open OXSCIE 2018, a global summit on the future of education at Oxford University.

In policy making, science and evidence can clash with values and perspectives. What should take precedence and why?

Donald Trump’s presidency performs a great service for the world.