Five thoughts, ideas, insights, or quotes to power up your mind to think differently and creatively about life and who we are. Put all previous thinking away and open up a brand new world of the Supermind. YOUR SuperMind.
This week – New Economics.
There is plenty of current thinking that believes that the world economy is broken. All the previous economic structures and systems put in place are failing and it’s time to rethink how to build a workable financial future. And that’s what I’m about to do this week in SuperMind Saturday. The moment for new economics is here.
1. Money For The Few.
History has shown that financiers have grabbed more and more control of the world over the years. This means the greater share of world money has been in the hands of a dwindling number of the population.
How do we reverse this? How do we ensure that money does not end up with fewer and fewer people who decide the destiny of the planet?
2. Changing Our Economics.
Famous naturalist David Attenborough brilliantly said, ‘Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics’. To me that’s exactly right. But harder to set in motion.
What is the first change we should make or enforce that will lead us to a better economic space for most people?
3. New Seeds Needed.
As in nature life grow through reproduction. And much of nature’s means to do that is to seed the ground for fresh future growth. This has been replicated by the banking system via business loans and start-up grants called Seed Funding. That activity has petered out. New seeds are required for new ground. Local ideas have to flourish. Fledgling enterprises require early help. Business can’t be big if it can’t get going in the first place.
How do we seed the future without banks? Could part of our taxes be redirected to this purpose? Or, what are the seeds we can sow that aren’t necessarily money funding (like brain banks)?
4. End the Global?
The last five decades have seen the demise of thousands of smaller companies. Good localised or national ones. They have been swamped by huge global corporations that drink up all the money and squeeze out businesses that are trying to hold on. This trend shows no end. This will only continue more unabated.
How do we protect the local and smaller companies? Or, how do we prevent this steady march to huge global domination that’s killing communities and high street trade? Limit them in some way?
5. A Society For the Future.
Economics builds society. It dictates our work, trade, distribution, spending, taxation, and shared resources. This, in turn, drives how we live our lives both mentally, emotionally, and physically. This is society. So, economics are the developer of lifestyles and life circumstances in this way. Look around today and see the economics of the last twenty or so years in action. Which leads me to the big questions here.
Should economics have this power anymore? Are economics no longer creating but harming? Could we base our new societies of the future on another ethos we can all buy into? What is our economic future??
Food for mental thought for your mind about economics. New economics maybe?
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Ok, that wraps up another SuperMind Saturday. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep thinking about these through the week to open up more of your mind and its potential. Consider more, generate ideas more, think on bigger possibilities more, activate your connection to your personal higher mind. Employ your SuperMInd and Super Think!
See you next time for more super thinking.
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Five thoughts, ideas, insights, or quotes to power up your mind to think differently and creatively about life and who we are. Put all previous thinking away and open up a brand new world of the Supermind. YOUR SuperMind.
This week – World Peace.
Back in the day beauty pageant contestants were often asked what they most wanted in the future. The majority made one simple statement; ‘World peace’. That was then (fifty or so years ago), but world peace seems as far away and as fragile as it’s ever been. SuperMind Saturday therefore has to get involved. Let’s switch our minds on.
Let’s begin.
- American politician Ginny Brown-Waite made a telling declaration when she said, ‘The UN has failed…in its mission to promote world peace’. The UN was once the bastion of ensuring conflicts were controlled and not allowed to develop. They do seem powerless to do that in the current time. Who then do we turn to for world peace? Who is independent enough to help keep the peace that is fair to all?
- Peace is our normal human setting. We don’t strive to fight, we prefer to live without hostility and bloodshed. And yet, war and fighting continue today as much as they did in ancient times. We seemed to have learnt very little. Why do humans not want peace and prefer war so often?
- Ask any normal citizen on the street and they will say they want peace in the world. Everyday people never choose battle and suffering. Therefore it is one or two leaders that lead their country out of peace into combat despite our wishes. How can we work to ensure no warfare can ever start without the public as a whole deciding it is the right, and only, thing to do?
- Children love. Children care. Children want to be friends. Yet, they become adults who seek anything but peace. We teach children to be good, to be kind, to think about others…..then they turn into the opposite. What is happening in our society that good little people become angry, attacking adults, often so soon as their early twenties?
- Peace may never be happening across all of the world, but peace is happening in MOST of the world at any one time. The majority of the population are peaceful live-and-let-live humans. Which is why the news promotes the opposite and the media seems to wait for it. How can we get them to find more positive stories? Are they to blame at spreading a message that the world is not largely a very peaceful place? And the big question of the day….how can we give world peace a better PR and image?
OK SuperMinds, keep the peace and share the good things with each other. It’s our world.
And that wraps up another SuperMind Saturday. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep thinking about these through the week to open up more of your mind and its potential. Consider more, generate ideas more, think on bigger possibilities more, activate your connection to your personal higher mind. Employ your SuperMInd and Super Think!
See you next time for more super thinking.
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Five thoughts, ideas, insights, or quotes to power up your mind to think differently and creatively about life and who we are. Put all previous thinking away and open up a brand new world of the Supermind. YOUR SuperMind.
This week – Alcohol.
Alcohol has been part of human lives for millenia. It’s almost as old as we are. It’s our relaxant, our social supporter, and our reward all in one. But, it’s not all play. Alcohol has a darker side and many lives have been ruined by it. This week SuperMind Saturday takes a look at the substance.
- The vast majority of us like a drink. It quells our stress and boosts our feel good levels. But, the amount we drink to achieve this has been going up year upon year with more people than ever drinking more than ever. Why do we need alcohol so much as our go-to solution to life and will that ever change?
- Alcohol used to be consigned to pubs at certain times of the day and for special occasions like weddings and Christmas. Then along came supermarkets open all day and longer opening times for bars. Alcohol is now on tap permanently. Because it’s now available all the time, have we got too used to alcohol as a norm and what is that creating?
- Alcohol acts as a short term answer. Feeling low or unhappy or any despondency about life we often choose to reach for a good drink to ease our mood even though it will never solve the reason we needed it in the first place. Why do we choose to mask our issues like this so we never deal with them?
- Alcohol will probably never be banned. Or unlikely to be seriously limited in what we buy or consume. Let’s say it was though. Let’s say it was phased out. What would us people of planet Earth use to feel the same way (something legal and not dangerous)? Could we find a new source of calming pleasure that’s less addicitve?
- International footballer, George Best, famously said, ‘In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol – it was the worst 20 minutes of my life’. He died in his 50’s from the effects of alcohol. Should we just accept that this is what happens to some people, that’s it’s the price to pay for overindulging in such fun? After all it’s a major pastime for most of us.
Ok SuperMinds there you have it. I could ask many more questions about alcohol. It’s THAT popular as a topic.
And that wraps up another SuperMind Saturday. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep thinking about these through the week to open up more of your mind and its potential. Consider more, generate ideas more, think on bigger possibilities more, activate your connection to your personal higher mind. Employ your SuperMInd and Super Think!
See you next time for more super thinking.
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Five thoughts, ideas, insights, or quotes to power up your mind to think differently and creatively about life and who we are. Put all previous thinking away and open up a brand new world of the Supermind. OUR SuperMinds.
This week – Suicide.
Suicide has reached epidemic proportions. More and more people succumb to it every single day. It’s a worrying trend. And that means we have to have a good SuperMind think about what can be done. Let’s do that.
- Every year more than 720, 000 die due to suicide. That is the equivalent of the complete population of the city of Okayama in Japan not existing year after year. But that is just an estimate as some countries are poor at collecting data. Therefore the figures will be far more. While the reasons are various one fact remains – minds feel there is no way out of the current life situation. How can we begin to improve the resilience and strength of minds as a whole everywhere?
- The facts show that men make up some 80% of suicide cases. Men are known for not been talkers, not opening up, not doing ‘touch feely’ stuff as they call it. What would help men open up up more about their problems? How can we encourage and support that?
- The most alarming statistic of all is that suicide is now the 3rd leading cause of death among 15-29 year olds. In 2021 alone it was the No.1 cause. Young people are increasingly feeling their life is not worth living. Most are impulsive decisions. Are young people being too exposed to the wrong things that are affecting their minds? Or is social media making their life look dull and themselves as losers? What is the root cause?
- Thought/question – Why suicide? In this modern world where there’s a multitude of ways to better yourself and your life, do people chose just this one?
- Suicide is personal. An individual has lost all hope or all self-belief. Is this then how life has become in this day and age? Is self-esteem and self-belief at the heart of why suicide claims so many lives?
That’s another SuperMind Saturday for your mind powers to work on. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep asking yourself these through the week to open up more of your mind to evolve its potential. Consider more, generate ideas more, think on bigger possibilities more, activate your connection to your personal higher mind more and more. Employ your SuperMInd and Super Think!
See you next time for more super thinking.
