Most of us don't realize it, but there is something unusual going on in the world.
Several months ago, I freed myself from the framework of the familiar society. I have broken the chains of fear that have bound me to the system. Since then, I have seen the world from a different perspective: everything is changing, but most of us do not know about it. How do I know the world is changing? In this article I will point out as many as eight proofs of this.
1. No one is able to accept further the existing model of employment
We are reaching the limit. People can barely stand up to work in large corporations. You don't see goals and literally howl in despair. People quit. They want to give up everything. Look: many are trying to start their own business, take sabbatical. How many people are depressed at work, how many have suffered from professional burnout?
2. The entrepreneurship model is also changing
The past years have seen a burst of startups. Thousands of entrepreneurs have turned their garages into offices to bring billion-dollar ideas to life. The founders of the startups were looking for investors and receiving funding - the grant was equated to the FIFA Cup. But what happened after receiving the grant?
You became an employee again. People could come into the business who do not share your dreams and goals, but you brought them yourself for the sake of money - funding was the main condition for your startup. This business outcome is painful. The really cool ideas never came to fruition because the money-seeking model often works against. We need to find a new way of doing business, and there are great guys out there who are already looking for new options.
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3. Increased cooperation
Many people have figured out that there is no point in doing things by themselves. Many have woken up from the crazy "every man for himself" principle. Stop, take a step back and think. Isn't it absurd that 7 billion people living on the same planet grew up so distant from each other? What's the point of doing something if it turns your back on thousands, millions of people - your city neighbors, for example. I feel sad whenever I think about it. Fortunately, a few things have changed. It has become customary to share ideas and collaborate, and this opens up new directions - teamwork, assistance and mutual assistance. Such changes touch me to the core - they are beautiful.
4. Finally, we figured out what the Internet is
The Internet is a magic thing, and it was only after many years that we realized its power. With the Internet, the world opens up, barriers fall, division ends, and cooperation and assistance begins. Some nations are waging real revolutions like the Arab Spring, using the Internet as a catalyst. In Brazil, we are just starting to use the Internet for our purposes. The Internet destroys the ability to control the masses. Large media groups serve the news as they please, depending on what they want to get across. The media write what is beneficial to them, but they are no longer the only owners of information. You follow what you want. You yourself are in contact with those with whom you want. You explore whatever you want.
With the help of the internet, the little man is no longer silent. He had a voice. Anonymous people become famous. The world is becoming common. And the system can collapse.
5. The idea of excessive consumption has been destroyed
We've been at the mercy of consumer culture for as long as possible. We bought every new product - the latest car, the latest iPhone, leading brands, clothes, shoes, all sorts of things, hundreds and thousands of things and little things - everything that can be held in our hands. Having tried to go against the crowd, the pioneers of anti-consumerism realized that the path leads not so much against, as away from the crowd. Moderate consumption, slow life and slow eating are just a few of the interactions with the world around us, which in contrast show how absurd we can manage our lives. Many people don't use cars. Few spend more money than is necessary. And more and more people change clothes, buy used goods, use equipment, cars together, and rent apartments and offices together. We don't need all those thingswhich were imposed on us. And the awareness of new consumption can lead any company that relies on consumerism to bankruptcy.
6. Healthy and organic food
We ate everything that seemed edible! Is the product tasty? - Well. We were so out of touch with reality that the manufacturing companies started selling actually poison instead of food, and we said nothing. But some people woke up and started eating healthy and organic foods. This trend is only getting stronger. But what does this have to do with economics and work? Yes, the most direct. The food industry is one of the foundations of our society. If we change our thinking, eating habits and the way we consume, corporations will begin to respond to the change and adapt to the new demand market.
Smallholder farming is again becoming relevant in the production chain. People even grow vegetables and fruits in their apartments. And the shape of the economy is changing.
7. Awakening spirituality
How many of your friends practice yoga? How about meditation? Now go back 10 years. How many people did you know who did this? Spirituality has long been the lot of eccentrics obsessed with mysticism and esotericism. But this trend, fortunately, has also changed. We have come to the border of the reasonable and the rational. We realized that with the help of our conscious thinking alone, you can improve your life. I'm sure you also want to manage your life on your own, and this is happening now. You want to understand how it works: how life is regulated, what happens after death, what kind of energy of thought is this that is so much talked about; what is quantum physics, how thoughts become material and create a sense of reality; what is coincidence and what is synchronicity; why meditation works;how it is possible to cure diseases without drugs, but only with the help of hands, and how alternative medicine works. Companies run meditation sessions for their employees. Even in schools they teach to meditate. Think about it.
8. Extracurricular tendencies
Who came up with the current education model? Who chooses the lessons children should attend? Why should we listen to the exact lessons of history that are being read to us, and why are we not taught the truth about other ancient civilizations? Why should kids follow a set of rules? Why should they sit still and listen silently? Why should they wear uniforms? What are these tests and how do they prove that you have actually learned the subject. We have invented and perpetuated a teaching model: followers of a system that transform people into inconspicuous and standard human beings. Fortunately, many are rethinking the concept of education and teaching children at home, starting out-of-school education and breaking schooling. Perhaps you have never thought of all of the above and may even be shocked. But this is happening. People wake up little by little and realizehow crazy they live in this society.
Take a look and think - is what I wrote usually so. I don’t think so. Something extraordinary is happening in the world.
Author: Gustavo Tanaka, Co-creator, Baobbá Lab. Brazilian author and entrepreneur is trying to create a new model, a new system and possibly helping to create a new economy
