In 2017 I was honoured to deliver a @TEDTalks in which I spoke about how we could face the future without fear, together. Faced with the sudden challenge of #Coronovirus, this talk seems all the more pertinent. You can watch or read it in full at bit.ly/2w8BXsQ.
In the @TEDTalks, I argued that the simplest way to safeguard the future 'You' was by strengthening the future 'Us' in three dimensions: the 'Us' of #relationship, the 'Us' of #identity and the 'Us' of #responsibility. Never has this seemed more true than in today's world.
I also offered a suggestion of how this could be done. Do a search and replace operation on the text of your mind and wherever you encounter the word "self," substitute the word "other."
So instead of self-help, other-help; instead of self-esteem, other-esteem; instead of self-respect, other-respect. Making this change in mindset might just change your life, and it might, I argued, just help to begin to change the world.
If you are interested, I address these ideas in much greater depth in my new book '#Morality: Restoring the #CommonGood in #DividedTimes', out now in UK & elsewhere (@HodderFaith): bit.ly/3cMU5sE & available for pre-order in the US (@BasicBooks): bit.ly/2TKHqz5.
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