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Iain McGilchrist, ’We Need to Act’

Rebel Wisdom

CHAPTER

The Way We Make Progress Is Not by Cutting Off the Strain of Life

In many stable societies people pay attention to what the elders thought. This means that instead of being like a rudderless ship, they have some point to refer to. I believe that the way we make progress is not by cutting off the strain of life and then finding ourselves with no idea of where we should be. It is from that growing, flexible, trainable organism that the next steps come.

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