To begin, I want to share a few possible scenarios that lead to a breakdown or a non-functioning communication. First of all, how often do we listen to another person with the intention to come up with a response that can prove that my point of view is the correct one? Does that create anything? […]

Are you aware that we are speaking and thinking about 60,000 to 80,000 words per day? When I got that information, I was holy macaroni, that many words and, even if we don’t talk a lot, we’re pretty busy in our head. So what are we telling ourselves with all those thoughts? Are we programming […]

Last year, I gave a TEDx talk that went live the end of last week. Listening to it again, it reminded me of a subject I use quite a bit in presentations: humanity.  So first of all, what is humanity? I decided to consult Google and came up with three things: The concept of humanity: […]

This time, I have an interesting subject. I want to talk about Shadow! What is that? According to Carl Jung, we push all the traits we have, the desires we have that we judge as not positive, into the shadow. And there is also the shadow gold, the so called positive traits that we do […]

Talking about equality is the last article of the series of nine on elderhood. It is another way in which an elder potentially impacts society. We need to move from the current inequality to equality. We have inequality on so many levels, not just gender based, in the workplace, in society in general, there is […]

In the last article, I wrote about moving from competition to collaboration. In this one, I would like to talk about moving from mono-culture to appreciation of diversity. We have monoculture on many levels, be forestry or food production, but also culturally and with ethnicity. I remember as a teenager in Germany when an influx […]

In the next three articles, I look at being an elder in society. The areas I have chosen are inspired by my sense of needing to evolve from Humanity 1.0 where we currently are at to Humanity 2.0 and what could be. I used some words to describe the current situation where we have competition, […]

Wisdom! This it a difficult subject. How does one talk about wisdom? Looking up the definition says: the quality of having experience, knowledge and good judgment, the quality of being wise. I have to say, there is a different wisdom that I gained. Knowing that if I do something, create something based on a past […]

A few weeks ago, I came across Peter Crone on a podcast. I liked what I heard and looked for more. I liked his asking questions, so it took a lot longer to listen to one. I often hit pause and wondered how that question applied to my life. Taking a deep dive like that […]

What is courage? And especially, what is courage in the context of elderhood?  We assign courage to the so-called adrenaline junkies.  On some level, I was part of that. I remember in the early 90s, 30 years ago, be being a participant in a workshop with Dan Millman. One day, we left early in the […]