The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Bend Not Break Part 5: Criteria and Categories for Response" | The Great Simplification #50
Personalized Advice
- Pay attention to advice that resonates with you and empowers you.
- Different people thrive with different approaches, so find what works best for you.
Animal Shelter Experience
- Daniel's experience in animal shelters highlighted the limitations of individual action.
- This led him to explore systemic solutions for larger-scale problems.
Grounding Existential Risk
- Thinking about existential risk should be grounded in real-world experience.
- Otherwise, abstract thinking can lead to detachment and potentially harmful actions.
On this 5th and final installment of the Bend Not Break series with Daniel Schmachtenberger, we unpack the framework and mindset needed to begin thinking about responses. This conversation touches on what it means to work on personal development in the light of a polycrisis, and how it is truly a never ending but necessary challenge. Finally, Daniel and Nate break down a 3x3 grid on time frame and category of responses.
Whilst this is the end of this series, there is, of course, much left to be unpacked. If there are any specific topics you want covered in a follow up Daniel/Nate conversation, we encourage you to leave your questions in the comments of the Youtube video, which can be found here -> https://youtu.be/Kep8Fi_rUUI
About Daniel Schmachtenberger:
Daniel Schmachtenberger is a founding member of The Consilience Project, aimed at improving public sensemaking and dialogue.
The throughline of his interests has to do with ways of improving the health and development of individuals and society, with a virtuous relationship between the two as a goal.
Towards these ends, he’s had particular interest in the topics of catastrophic and existential risk, civilization and institutional decay and collapse as well as progress, collective action problems, social organization theories, and the relevant domains in philosophy and science.
For Show Notes and More visit: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/50-daniel-schmachtenberger
To watch this video episode on Youtube → https://youtu.be/Kep8Fi_rUUI