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The Good Ancestor
- A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A call to save ourselves and our planet by targeting the root of our inaction: extreme short-sightedness
“The most important question we must ask ourselves is: Are we being good ancestors?” So said Jonas Salk, who cured polio in 1953. Salk saved millions of lives, but he refused to patent his cure or make any money from it. His radical rethinking of what we owe future generations should be an inspiration to us all, but it has hardly taken hold: Businesses can barely see past the next quarter; politicians can’t see past the next election.
Markets spike, then they crash in speculative bubbles. We rarely stop to consider whether we’re being good ancestors...but the future depends on it.\
Here, leading public intellectual, philosopher, and best-selling author Roman Krznaric explains six practical ways we can retrain our brains to save our future - such as adopting Deep Time Humility (recognizing our lives as a cosmic eyeblink) and Cathedral Thinking (starting projects that will take more than one lifetime to complete). His aim is to inspire a “time rebellion” - to shift our allegiance from our generation only to all humanity, present and future.
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- Jose
- 2020-12-24
Changed the way I make decisions
Up until now I had made decisions based on the perceived immediate impact and without much regard for consequences down the line. This isn’t to say I lived recklessly but simply that many of my choices had a favourable immediate scenario followed by an unpredictable long term reality. This audiobook has inspired me to flip the order by always thinking long first while also keeping a responsible close eye on the immediate outcome.
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- Kim Law
- 2021-11-05
A must read
Everyone who lives on this beautiful blue planet should read this book, our leaders the most!
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- DK
- 2021-02-17
Profound and easy to digest
A well structured handbook to engage critical long term thinking and actions into our perspectives
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