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A 210,000-year-old partial skull found in southern Greece about four decades ago has been identified as the earliest example of anatomically modern Homo sapiens discovered outside the African continent. The discovery, described in a paper in the journal Nature, pushes back the known date of our species in Europe by more than 150,000 years.
So, we have been around for a long long time.
And if we were to assess where we stand as humanity,
we have some pretty solid stories...
...of research and development and innovations
...of progress ala Steven Pinker (Author Enlightenment Now)
...of challenges ala UN Sustainable Development Goals
...of horrifying human acts ala Breaking News
... and more...
We live in what Futurist Benjamin J Butler calls "The Great Paradox". We have made a lot of progress and at the same time lots of challenges stare at us.
So, where are we going from here?
Or, a better question is, where can we go from here?
Our world is made up of behaviors.
Result of billions of behaviors we collectively perform everyday.
Our behaviors primarily negotiate two key things.
Things Inside the person.
Things Outside the person.
Things inside have elements of our thinking and feeling.
Things outside have elements of politics-economics-social of the day...the rules-norms-incentives of the day.
And then we have people whom we call successful and those who are not successful.
Is there possibility to reimagine the political-economic-social system? Such that there are no underdogs.
What kind of system would ensure that
... people can feel that they gave their best shot
...that in the process they have grown
...that they have been realizing their potential
...and they need not be part of large organizations to be able to feel this
...that they feel that there is fair competition and the bar of fairness is being pushed up and up
...that they feel they are part of larger community and purpose
...where failure is celebrated and seen as an experiment done by some on behalf of entire humanity
...where people who want to keep at it...keep receiving rightful frameworks and support to have a go at it...
...where matter of understanding human nature is a constant inquiry
...where duty is as important as entitlements
...where many more people and enterprises have a winning chance at a dignified life
So, what are the challenges we face in order to move in this direction?
Issues pertaining to skills and structures.
Skills has more to do with the individuals.
And structures to do with explicit/implicit rules-norms-incentives, etc.
In terms of structures, we believe that:
...inability to comprehend the nature of complexity of our global and national systems
...there is more focus on bits and atoms and less on cells, human nature and social complexity
...there is more focus on GDP and less focus on holistic development
...polarization
...anti-pluralism
...conversational violence
...slow uptake of interdisciplinary framing
In terms of skills, we believe that the following need to be looked at:
...quality of awareness and presence
...meta-cognition
...emotional intelligence
...body intelligence
...social intelligence
So, how does Dhanvarsha come in?
...we realize that in the interdependent world, collaboration is the proverbial bandwidth
...whoever has the best and widest bandwidth, will have a better chance at realizing life's potential and also building social capital
...and as humans we can collaborate with hand-head-heart
We believe in building on the sweat and blood of billions who walked before us.
We pay homage to what we have been handed down in terms of what we avail and what we detest.
That which we detest are opportunities for us all to collectively frame and solve.
We believe that every human has to right to realize one's own potential.
We believe that we all have potential beyond that which comes out currently.
We believe that one's potential is stifled owing to challenges at levels of skills or structure.
We believe in constantly creating and refining platforms for lending hand-head-heart.
A 210,000-year-old partial skull found in southern Greece about four decades ago has been identified as the earliest example of anatomically modern Homo sapiens discovered outside the African continent. The discovery, described in a paper in the journal Nature, pushes back the known date of our species in Europe by more than 150,000 years.
So, we have been around for a long long time.
And if we were to assess where we stand as humanity,
we have some pretty solid stories...
...of research and development and innovations
...of progress ala Steven Pinker (Author Enlightenment Now)
...of challenges ala UN Sustainable Development Goals
...of horrifying human acts ala Breaking News
... and more...
We live in what Futurist Benjamin J Butler calls "The Great Paradox". We have made a lot of progress and at the same time lots of challenges stare at us.
So, where are we going from here?
Or, a better question is, where can we go from here?
Our world is made up of behaviors.
Result of billions of behaviors we collectively perform everyday.
Our behaviors primarily negotiate two key things.
Things Inside the person.
Things Outside the person.
Things inside have elements of our thinking and feeling.
Things outside have elements of politics-economics-social of the day...the rules-norms-incentives of the day.
And then we have people whom we call successful and those who are not successful.
Is there possibility to reimagine the political-economic-social system? Such that there are no underdogs.
What kind of system would ensure that
... people can feel that they gave their best shot
...that in the process they have grown
...that they have been realizing their potential
...and they need not be part of large organizations to be able to feel this
...that they feel that there is fair competition and the bar of fairness is being pushed up and up
...that they feel they are part of larger community and purpose
...where failure is celebrated and seen as an experiment done by some on behalf of entire humanity
...where people who want to keep at it...keep receiving rightful frameworks and support to have a go at it...
...where matter of understanding human nature is a constant inquiry
...where duty is as important as entitlements
...where many more people and enterprises have a winning chance at a dignified life
So, what are the challenges we face in order to move in this direction?
Issues pertaining to skills and structures.
Skills has more to do with the individuals.
And structures to do with explicit/implicit rules-norms-incentives, etc.
In terms of structures, we believe that:
...inability to comprehend the nature of complexity of our global and national systems
...there is more focus on bits and atoms and less on cells, human nature and social complexity
...there is more focus on GDP and less focus on holistic development
...polarization
...anti-pluralism
...conversational violence
...slow uptake of interdisciplinary framing
In terms of skills, we believe that the following need to be looked at:
...quality of awareness and presence
...meta-cognition
...emotional intelligence
...body intelligence
...social intelligence
So, how does Dhanvarsha come in?
...we realize that in the interdependent world, collaboration is the proverbial bandwidth
...whoever has the best and widest bandwidth, will have a better chance at realizing life's potential and also building social capital
...and as humans we can collaborate with hand-head-heart
We believe in building on the sweat and blood of billions who walked before us.
We pay homage to what we have been handed down in terms of what we avail and what we detest.
That which we detest are opportunities for us all to collectively frame and solve.
We believe that every human has to right to realize one's own potential.
We believe that we all have potential beyond that which comes out currently.
We believe that one's potential is stifled owing to challenges at levels of skills or structure.
We believe in constantly creating and refining platforms for lending hand-head-heart.
We believe that current skills and structures disproportionately skew the definition of success and also the chances of success in favor of the few.
We believe in challenging this status in a constructive and meaningful manner.
We believe that performance excellence and creativity without humaneness is not a holistic development of our civilization.
We believe in reimagining our political-economic-social systems along with our ecosystem of MSME, employee colleagues and alliance partners.
We believe not in blind radical overthrowing of things, albeit we respect what has been done as experiments for us to learn from.
We believe that progress is not a binary between reform or revolution...but can be a new world order that combines the two.
We believe that world has already seen myriad battlegrounds of state vs market and socialism vs capitalism...we believe time has come for the social capital.
We believe that we should take the features of all of the above and reimagine new systems.
Welcome to Dhanvarsha...where we are committed to reimagine things as social capital.
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