Thinking Today as if Tomorrow Mattered: The Rise of a Sustainable Consciousness - Softcover

Adams, John D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0967285909 ISBN 13: 9780967285900

Publisher: Eartheart Enterprises, 1999

Synopsis

Many years ago, Albert Einstein taught us that you can't solve a problem using the same kind of thinking that caused the problem in the first place. This book combines several approaches being used to describe today's global challenges into a broad but practical perspective on the future. It concludes that we must develop entirely new ways of thinking very soon if we want to pass on a high quality life to future generations.

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About the Author

John D. Adams, Ph.D., Author of Thinking Today as if Tomorrow Mattered, editor of Transforming Work and Transforming Leadership, and co-author of Life Changes, has been at the forefront of the Organization Development profession for more than 30 years. He was chair of the sustainable development task force at The World Business Academy and is the owner of Eartheart Enterprises, an international publishing, consulting, and speaking business.

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I would feel that Albert Einstein's statement that "We cannot expect to be able to resolve any complex problems from within the same state of consciousness that created them" is incredible overused, especially in recent literature describing the ecological challenges we may soon be facing, if there were strong indications that a critical mass of people were in fact moving rapidly towards a "larger" or broader state of consciousness. My experience is that instead of shifting our consciousness, most of us are trying harder and harder to make pour old familiar approaches work, with progressively poorer outcomes and ever-increasing levels of daily stress as a result.

The reason for this, I think, lies in a much less frequently cited statement made by the late Scottish psychiatrist, Ronald Laing. In his view: "The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change, until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds."

Edition details

• Publisher: Eartheart Enterprises
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0967285909
• ISBN 13: 9780967285900
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 173