Don't give energy to negativity
Ethics for thought and behaviour
- Are your thoughts and actions constructive or productive? Are we building, growing mutually and consensually?
- Are we learning? Is history repeating?
- Is it personal? Get on with your own business!
- Space and Time Perspectives. Proportionate action/re-action
- The lowest social common denominator may not be the place to aim for - look for the win-win, the elegant design.
- The root cause of suffering is attachment. Except family and friends.
- Compassion and empathy. Consideration. Mindfulness.
- Culture and beliefs won't be changed with rational arguments.
- A dignified, respectful example can be welcomed.
- Lead by example. When you need to lead, lead.
- Successful people have routines that reinforce their success. Do good, be good.
- Ultimately, we are animals. Social animals. Homo Sapiens. 233k years old.
- Evolutionary psychology and evolutionary biology. Evolutionary everything.
- Change usually happens in very small steps. Change always happens.
- Population dynamics. Bell curves. Statistical probability.
- Equality, eco-feminism. Stereotypes and "we're all individuals."
- Survival of the fittest.
- Leave no-one behind, clever monkeys.
- Supporting victims and not rewarding victimhood.
- Pragmatism: -isms and -ologies will not stand the test of time.
- Do you really need to cry tomorrow's tears today?
- Not taking the essentials for granted. Environment, Health (food, medicine) and Education are essentials.
- Plan to minimise mess. Clean up while it's fresh. Clean the small messes. Avoid mixing messes.
- We didn't come down from the trees with iPhones. Things have to be learned, including ways of thinking eg democracy, equality
Don't give energy to negativity
An ironic motto
Space and Time Perspective
Space
Be aware of your environment: the room, the building, the block, suburb, city, state, country, hemisphere, planet, solar system, galaxy, universe.
Have a sense of perspective when assessing priorities and behaviours. Are you too caught up in the moment?
Time
Recognising our tools. Not just phones, networks, clean drinking water on tap and hot showers in clean drinking water, but also explicitly defined ways of thinking and organising, such as democracy.
What would your grandmother have for dinner when she was your age? What would your 100th-grandmother have for dinner? Where would it come from and how would it be prepared? What are the foundations of your entitlement?
Recognise our conveniences. How to play and have fun with no internet through different ages?
Alone on a mountain top
Is nirvana achievable without a support crew? Who grows the food while the monk meditates?
Keep your options open
Stick to the plan
Manners are free
Praise generously
Give unconditionally
Are emotions change management?
Don't give energy to negativity. An ironic motto.
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