While enjoying my awesome cup of coffee this morning made by my Aeropress method (No they are not a sponsor, but I would highly recommend this method) I came across some thoughts that awakened in me the changes that are occurring all around us. For example, the era of the Gutenburg press is now coming to a close with the death of bookstores and the emergence of digital books. Think about the transistor radio that allowed children to listen to pop music without their parents knowing. Better yet, you had to attend the movie theater to see the latest blockbuster. Now you can access thousands of songs and watch the same in the movie industry by means of “Live-Streaming.”

The point is that we tend to relish in conveniences of the moment without realizing our need to adapt to new ways of thinking and behaving. Things change! Consider some of the benefits according to Seth Godin:

Computers connect us–to resources, to truth and to each other (which can mean folk-truth instead of actual truth)

Medicine is truly a science, not a series of half-understood superstitions

Musicians and writers can find an audience without a gatekeeper

We’ve changed the narrative about fairness (even though we’ve just begun to make progress)

It has never been easier to spread an idea or start an enterprise

Access to information, just about all of it, is cheap and fast

If you care enough to learn something, you can.

The challenge of this blog is to become a Systems Thinker! This way of thinking about life’s trajectory is to reframe what we are looking at and where this potentially can take us. It is generally accepted that six components make up Systems Thinking. I will be writing more about these in the coming blog articles. For now, allow me to list them for future discussion.

• Disconnection……….Interconnection
• Linear……….Circular
• Silos……….Emergence
• Parts……….Wholes
• Analysis……….Synthesis
• Isolation……….Relationships

Leave a comment below and share your thoughts about the “LONG VIEW” of life and what is changing in your world. Let’s start a discussion!