The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the global rich -- like me -- live in post-scarcity society, while a billion people struggle to get enough to eat. And we're pushing the planet towards a tipping point, where the corals die and the forests burn and life becomes much, much harder. We have the resources to solve those problems, even now, but politics and economics and nationalism all get in the way. If we could access all those minds, though..Ramez Naam
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Many people are afraid to think, because they do not think that they can be wrong. They do not truly believe that they can learn something new, or be wrong. However, to truly learn something new and improve it is a sign of an individual who has true courage and true intelligence. We all need to be willing to fail and learn from our mistakes, but we must also be willing to try again and accept that we might not succeed this time around.
Source: Crux
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