The paradox of our times, changing the world starts with you!
Hi Britzies, so yesterday I came across a video by motivational philosopher Jay Shetty who is definitely one of my favorite motivational speakers. It is about the paradox of our times and how changing the world starts with you.
This is what he had to say:
"Albert Einstein famously remarked in a conversation with Werner Heisenberg, he said, "you know in the West we've built a beautiful ship, and in it has all the comforts. But actually the one thing it doesn't have is a compass and that's why it doesn't know where it is going."
This paradox of our times was propounded by the Dalai Lama when he said, "we have wider freeways but narrower viewpoints. We have taller building but shorter tempers." Will Smith said that we spend money we haven't earned on things we don't need to impress people we don't like. And it's phenomenal how the same technology that brings us close to those who are far away takes us away from the people who are actually close.
30 billion WhatsApp messages are sent per day, but 48% of people say that they feel lonelier in general. The paradox of our times is that we have more degrees but less sense. More knowledge but less Judgement. More experts but less solutions. It was Martin Luther King who said that the irony of our time is that we have guided missiles but misguided men.
Have you ever found it perplexing that we've been all the way to the moon and back but we struggle to start a conversation across the road or across a train? And it's amazing that Bill Gates was known as the top earner of 2015 with a wealth of $79.2 billion but one in four CEO's claim to be struggling from depression. Do we actually thrive off this paradox? Is it that this paradox makes the media interesting, it's what makes journalism interesting, it's what makes politics interesting, it's what makes television interesting. Is this paradox actually what we feed off and what we live off and what we talk about and what we discuss in our circles?
Doesn't it seem that we've tried to clean up the air but polluted our souls, we've split the atom but not our prejudice, and we're aiming for higher incomes but we have lower morals. So I'm hearing you ask, how do we bring a change? How do we dissect this paradox that exists in our lives? And it starts by us, each of us pressing pause, pressing reset and then pressing play again. Taking a moment to become more conscious, taking a moment to become more aware, taking a moment to reflect on the consequence, the implications of a misplaced word or an unnecessary argument that we all know we didn't need to have or to speak to someone just slightly differently in a different tone, in a different voice, in a different empathy, with a different perspective. Just to really connect with people on a different level.
This thinking out loud started from Albert Einstein and I'll track back to him when he actually said that the problems we have today can't be solved with the same thinking that we used when we once created them. So actually we need to research alternative teachings. We need to deep down dig into those ancient books of wisdom. We need to go back to understanding if there's anything written in those creased pages of time that can actually reveal more knowledge and more wisdom of how we can transform our experience of life today. Otherwise, this paradox means that every step forward we take were taking three backward every time."
http://rise.huffingtonpost.com/watch/changing-world-starts-you
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