分类目录归档：thinking
So I've been "futuring," which is a term I made up --
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about three seconds ago.
I've been futuring for about 20 years,
and when I first started, I would sit down with people,
and say, "Hey,
Translator: tom carter Reviewer: Bedirhan Cinar
Imagine a microscopic-sized ladder contained in the part of our brain
that we'll label our subconscious.
The Ladder of Inference,
which was first propos
Every day, a sea of decisions stretches before us.
Some are small and unimportant,
but others have a larger impact on our lives.
For example, which politician should I vote for?
Should I try the lat
Socrates, one of the founding fathers of Western philosophical thought,
was on trial.
Many Athenians believed he was a dangerous enemy of the state,
accusing the philosopher of corrupting the youth
a
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education
as a fundamental human right is an
inherently democratic ideal
the word democracy comes from the
ancient greek demos
meaning common people and kratos meaning
power
and throughout his
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friends
sometimes we don't find our passion
you know in life but i would urge you
to try to find a passion uh for yourself
and just go after your passion today all
of you are in uh
are in one
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today i thought i'd start with a very
simple demonstration that i saw
years ago that was presented to me by an
ex-boss and mentor called adrian holmes
this is a box and the idea
is
hello from berlin
or good afternoon good morning or good
evening
depending on where in the world you are
right now first of all i would like to
say thank you
for being here with me right now because
i
what if i had been kinder to that person
would they have turned out the same what
if i chose this
instead where would i be now what if i
don't get into this college
what if i ruin my chance these are
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what we
see here in front of me
it's a box it's a small box
less than one cubic meter in size
but it's one of our answers
to the covet crisis no this box is not
filled with vaccines