511: Is Now the Best of Times? with Lucas Rockwood

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Lucas Rockwood

Love, Detox, Food, Yogabody, Pranayama, Vegan, Selfimprovement, Self-improvement, Relationships, Meditation, Breathing, Education, Emotions, Mental, Vegetarian, Inspiring, Leader, Balance, Motivating, Weightloss, Flexibility, Habits, Health, Motivation, Yoga, Nutrition

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🗓️ 14 April 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Haven you heard that environmental collapse is going to end life on earth in just 8 years? Do you think that World War III is looming? Are robots going to take over while we humans fight over NFTs in the metaverse? As absurd as all this sounds, these conversations take center stage despite the world’s rapid race toward a truly remarkable future of growth and progress.

On this week’s podcast, I’ll share with you my thoughts on why now might just be the best of times, despite its glaring tragedies, and the real risk might be our propensity for catastrophic thinking.

Did you know that there are 35% more calories per person, worldwide, just in my lifetime?
Did you know that both North America and Europe are undergoing reforestation not deforestation?
Is it possible that falling birth rates are a bigger problem than overpopulation?
Did you know that HIV/AIDs is rapidly decreasing, there’s a prophylactic pill, and even a potential cure?

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Lucas Rockwod is a yoga teacher, trainer, father, and serial entrepreneur. This podcast is a passion project of health, wellness, personal growth and development featuring leading thinkers in their fields.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Lucas. Welcome to the podcast. I'd like to start today by reading you the transcript
0:08.3	from a very short video posted by a social worker named Bill. I'll just read it to you
0:13.1	and then we'll discuss. Here's what Bill has to say. I've lived a very long life and in all of
0:18.7	those years, I've never experienced this much long-term stress that really hits at the heart of
0:24.2	survival. Whether it's surviving the pandemic, whether it's surviving this present crisis with Russia,
0:30.5	I've seen bits and pieces at time come and go of things that were really hard to handle that
0:35.6	affected people emotionally, but nothing like this. And how should we take care of ourselves
0:41.6	in the midst of this? We all know what we should do, but it's hard to do it. It's so hard to avoid
0:46.5	the media, so hard to avoid our iPhones and our iPads and so forth. Along with that, we're pretty
0:52.9	nosy and oboids taking its toll on everyone. No one can escape this, so good luck to you as you try
0:59.0	to manage this. There is no easy answer to this. These are seriously difficult times, really seriously
1:05.8	difficult times. Again, this is by a licensed social worker named Bill lives in Nebraska in the US.
1:12.8	This video has over 150,000 views and thousands of comments, and I just can't get it off my mind.
1:19.2	This is the silliest thing I have heard all year. Welcome to the podcast. It's Lucas Rockwood here.
1:25.0	I'm a yoga teacher, a teacher trainer. I'm the father of three. And first and foremost,
1:30.0	I'm a student. I use this podcast as a way to go out into the world and try to find people
1:34.1	writing books, doing research, experimenting with mind body practices, and I try to bring their
1:38.6	best work to you here on the show so we can all live more inspired lives. This week is a departure
1:44.2	from that. I'm doing a solo show. I just can't get this video off my mind. This gentleman is in
1:50.7	his late 60s, early 70s, clearly educated, clearly bright. And I think based on the comments and
1:56.7	the views and the conversations I've been having, a lot of people share his vantage point.
2:01.4	And not only is it a ridiculously inaccurate take on his world experience, it's also just flies
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