How to Know Your Life Purpose

How to Know Your Life Purpose
plus
How You Can Make a BIG Difference

http://www.herad.is/y04/1/2012-04-30-How-to-Know-You-Life-Purpose..htm

(From the works of Buckminster Fuller & Dr W. Edwards Deming.

The pictures of flipcharts are from a seminar I did called "Money & You". See www.excellerated.com.).

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“One secret of happiness is not doing what you love,

but loving what you do.

Buckminster Fuller's theory that your job was not to make money.

It was to add value to others.

He believed that 70% of the jobs on earth

were not directly contributing to

the life-support of the people.

Many are making money from money.”

When we try to learn a “New World Order”

http://www.herad.is/y04/1/2012-04-29-horse-manure.htm

we must remember the horse manure crisis

of the late 19 century,

and learn to do more with less,

then we can survive a crisis.

jg

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From horse power to horsepower

By Horsetalk.co.nz on Mar 26, 2012 in Features

http://horsetalk.co.nz/2012/03/26/from-horse-power-to-horsepower/

Urbanization ultimately presented New York and Brooklyn with an equine crisis of mind-numbing proportions.

By the late 1880s, horses plying the roads were producing an estimated four million pounds

of manure a day, plus 40,000 gallons of urine.

Eric Morris, writing in ACCESS magazine, charts the fascinating rise

and demise of the urban horse.

In 1898, delegates from across the globe gathered in New York City for the world’s first international urban planning conference.

One topic dominated the discussion.

It was not housing, land use, economic development, or infrastructure.

The delegates were driven to desperation by horse manure.

Our Economic Past | Stephen Davies

http://www.herad.is/y04/1/2012-04-27-manure-crisis-1894.htm

The Great Horse-Manure Crisis of 1894

http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/our-economic-past-the-great-horse-manure-crisis-of-1894/

"These prophets of doom rely on one thing—that their audience will not check the record of such predictions.

In fact, the history of prophecy is one of failure and oversight.

Many predictions (usually of doom) have not come to pass, while other things have happened that nobody foresaw.

Even brief research will turn up numerous examples of both, such as the many predictions in the 1930s—about a decade before the baby boom began

—that the populations of most Western countries were about to enter a terminal decline.

In other cases, people have made predictions that have turned out to be laughably overmodest,

such as the nineteenth-century editor’s much-ridiculed forecast that by 1950 every town in America would have a telephone,

or Bill Gates’s remark a few years ago that 64 kilobytes of memory is enough for anyone.

The fundamental problem with most predictions of this kind, and particularly the gloomy ones,

is that they make a critical, false assumption: that things will go on as they are.

This assumption in turn comes from overlooking one of the basic insights of economics: that people respond to incentives.

In a system of free exchange, people receive all kinds of signals that lead them to solve problems.

The prophets of doom come to their despondent conclusions because in their world,

nobody has any kind of creativity or independence of thought—except for themselves of course."

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The Horse Manure Problem

March 29, 2011 at 1:23 pm

http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2011/03/29/the-horse-manure-problem/

"In 1894, the Times of London estimated that by 1950 every street in the city

would be buried nine feet deep in horse manure.

One New York prognosticator of the 1890s concluded that by 1930

the horse droppings would rise to Manhattan’s third-story windows."

We must learn a “New World Order”

We must learn a “New World Order”

http://www.herad.is/y04/1/2012-04-26-The-Bureaucracy-Curse.htm

The Bureaucracy Curse

by Brian Dean (originally printed in The Idler)

http://www.anxietyculture.com/curse.htm

“Fuller claimed that the Malthusian ideology of “lower expectations”

still pervades mainstream politics and economics.

Politicians continue to remind us that we must “make sacrifices”, “cut back”, “tighten our belts”, etc.

Of course, it’s always the poor people who make the sacrifices, not politicians or the well-off.

Malthusianism shames the poor into accepting their situation with stoic resignation,

rather than raising their expectations.

If there isn’t enough to go around, then you should be grateful for what you already have.

Understandably, Malthus was very popular with the ruling classes.”

“Fuller spent much of his life challenging the Malthusian notion of

“not enough to go around”.

He documented the technological trend of

extracting more and more life-supporting wealth

from less and less raw material.

For example, he compared a modern communications satellite, weighing a fraction of a ton,

with the 75,000 tons of transatlantic cable that it replaces and outperforms.

This process of “more from less”, he said, is accelerating faster

than population growth and is removing scarcity from the planet.”

“Over the last few decades, Fuller’s claims have been scientifically vindicated.

Current inventories of world resources show overwhelming abundance

of sustainable life-enhancing wealth – enough to maintain a high living standard

for every person on the planet.

Scarcity now has to be artificially induced to preserve an obsolete system of “haves” and “have-nots”.

Most people suspect as much when they hear that, for decades, governments

have been paying farmers not to grow food.

Fuller regarded the “us versus them” paranoid-competitive business world

as a highly destructive combination of Malthus and Social Darwinism.

Humanity’s real mission, as he saw it, was not to fight competitors, but,

“to make the world work for 100 percent of humanity in the shortest possible time

through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense

or the disadvantage of anyone.””

………..

“In 1980, Fuller asserted his confidence in the practical realisation of this utopian vision:

“For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody

at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.

Only ten years ago the more-with-less technology reached the point

where this could be done.

All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.””

………

“Meanwhile, back in bureaucratsville, Fuller’s message is yet to be heard.

Our reflexes have been conditioned to dismiss utopia as synonymous

with the unrealistic or impossible.”

……..

Fortunately, a minority of economic commentators are starting

to echo Fuller’s arguments.

Charles Hampden-Turner, in The Seven Cultures of Capitalism, notes that

“we, in the English-speaking economies, are still at war with each other,

fighting for scraps of wealth in a scarcity contrived by our own beliefs.”

……….

Hampden-Turner then suggests that we redefine capitalism as

“a function of evolving co-operation, which spreads outward,

pushing competition to its own boundaries” –

a notion very much in tune with what Fuller was saying

half a century ago.

………

Perhaps, as Fuller claimed, humans have a habit of trying all the stupid approaches

before hitting on the intelligent ones.

Unfortunately, this is a slow process, with a time-lag of decades or centuries

before stupidity is acknowledged.

Those who plan to accelerate this process –

the complainers, the dissenters – should be honoured,

as they may be our best hope.

….

Buckminster R Fuller, Synergy,Maltus.

Buckminster R Fuller, Synergy, Maltus.

http://www.herad.is/y04/1/2012-04-22-You-should-read-Buckminster-04.htm

You the inteligent people of the world should read Buckminster R. Fuller

and teach us, in few easy to understand words.

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Synergy

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Do more with less

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“.... The metal plough, which meant that more people could be fed

with less work......

…International communications used to be done

by 175000 tons of transatlantic copper cable…..

…Now a 1/4 ton satellite transmits more and clearer messages”….

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Maltus

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http://www.isj.org.uk/index.php4?id=671&issue=127

“Paul Ehrlich who spent the 1960s warning the world that its rapidly growing population

would soon exceed the planet’s ability to provide.

It is a recipe that ends up blaming the poorest people for the world’s problems.

………

The idea that a growing population means a greater pressure

on natural resources, which eventually exceeds planetary capacity,

is a simple common sense one.

It is also wrong.”

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