How thinking long-term can transform our brains, ABC Radio Victoria, 11 May 2023.
In a world full of intense pressures and short deadlines, it takes a great deal of effort to look beyond our immediate future.
With some careful thinking, however, we can look further and further into our future and make the most effective decisions possible.
UK science writer Richard Fisher, author of a new book called The Long View, joined David Astle to explain the benefits of thinking long-term.
Credits:David Astle, Presenter
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Six Ways to Think Long-term: A Cognitive Toolkit for Good Ancestors
By Roman Krznaric (The Long Now, Jul 19, 02020
None of these six ways is enough alone to create a long-term revolution of the human mind — a fundamental shift in our perception of time. But together — and when practised by a critical mass of people and organisations — a new age of long-term thinking could emerge out of their synergy.
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How to start being a better ancestor, today.
- If you can’t re-use it, don’t use it. …
- Work on our trauma. …
- Treat our elders with respect. …
- And our youngers. …
- Speak of love, not war.
- Be a custodian of the earth. …
- And a steward of the future.
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Retrain your brain for long-term thinking
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Roman Krznaric, philosopher and author of the book “The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long Term Thinking,” says that there are two parts of the human brain that are driving our decisions and ultimately determining what kind of legacy we leave behind for future generations. Short-term thinking happens in the marshmallow brain (named after the famous Stanford marshmallow test), while long-term thinking and strategizing occurs in the acorn brain.
By retraining ourselves to use the acorn brain more often, we can ensure that trillions of people—including our grandchildren and their grandchildren—aren’t inheriting a depleted world and the worst traits that humankind has to offer. “At the moment we’re using on average 1.6 planet earths each year in terms of our ecological footprint,” says Krznaric, but that doesn’t mean that it’s too late to turn things around. Thinking long term about things like politics and education can help “rebuild our imaginations of what a civilization could be.”
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