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We're sharing some key health care Insights from the paper: Development in Progress authored by The Consilience Project and published on July 16, 2024. The article explores current and a renewed way of sensemaking around progress. It stresses how critical our ideas around progress are given how much it shapes our behaviour and outlook and the subsequent impacts on our individual, collective and planetary health. It imagines a world where we enlarge the progress narrative and tap into a deeper capacity for human wisdom and maturity. Part 1 of the paper explores the unconsidered side effects of our progress narrative. It cites several inventions that had negative health consequences far beyond what was considered at conception.  The parameters of how we understand solving problems creates a cascade of new and sometimes more wicked problems. “Not all change is progress […] Progress worth believing in—progress that is really about increasing betterment, increasing the goodness in the world—must still be able to be considered “good” once it has taken account of all perspectives and externalities.” The paper references the increase in global life expectancy as an example and provides a wider context on the price we have paid in quality of life for this change: “While life expectancy has increased over the last two hundred years of industrial growth, we have simultaneously toxified the environment, eradicated countless other species, and vastly increased the unnatural disease burden globally.” Part 2 of the paper focuses on how we can mature our idea of progress and step out of the failure traps that accompany narrow definitions of progress. The following are highlighted as some of the ways we can expand our sensemaking around progress: -Doing a better job of forecasting the consequences of our actions. Taking a meta view and understanding the nth order effects of our actions. “Yellow teaming”. -Regulatory frameworks that reflect the scale and potential impact of modern technological inventions. -Designing for human betterment – creating positive externalities. Focusing on synergistic designs that address multiple needs at the same time. -Becoming more oriented to complexities and mutually interacting points of view (1st, 2nd and 3rd person perspectives). -Renewing our sense of deep connection to one another (inter-being) and addressing our feelings of separation. -Developing a healthy optimism that blends hopefulness and discernment. We encourage you to read the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/e_cxEurb

Development in Progress - The Consilience Project

Development in Progress - The Consilience Project

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