536: The Future Can be Great with Ari Wallach
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
If you could meet anyone from history, who would you meet? There’s a saying that you should never meet your heroes because you’d be disappointed–at best. Envisioning the future of human progress in a game of push and pull. We dig in our heels as we cling to the past, and we press the pedal to the floor–all at once.
My guest on this week’s podcast focuses his work on what he calls, the Longpath, a future-focused vision for living today.
Listen and learn
- How to not move so fast you break things
- Why old school traditions still have a place in a modern world
- Can a Western perspective truly consider a global view of the future?
- How to be a good ancestor for your kids
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Ari Wallach is the founder and Executive Director of Longpath Labs. He is the author of the book, Longpath: Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs. He has a TED Talk on his concept of Longpath that is a great primer to his work as well.
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| 0:00.0 | If you could meet any person from history who would you meet there's a saying that you should |
| 0:08.1 | never meet your heroes because inevitably you will be disappointed. Disappointed would be a good |
| 0:14.1 | outcome. Many of us would be offended or appalled or disgusted. Many of us would want our heroes |
| 0:20.0 | to be thrown in jail. The challenge of time passing is our perspectives change and just 100 or |
| 0:27.0 | 200 years ago, the way people treated each other across borders, across dinner tables, parents |
| 0:33.7 | to children, things change really quickly. Human progress is this weird game of push and pull. |
| 0:38.8 | We dig our heels in as we cling to the past and yet we simultaneously press the pedal to the |
| 0:44.3 | floor embracing change all at once. You have this obvious stuff happening in political and cultural |
| 0:49.6 | circles and we pretend like we take sides but the reality is all of us are struggling with this |
| 0:54.1 | stuff internally all the time. Clinging to the past, racing towards the future, some things are |
| 0:59.2 | really clear. There's going to be a lot more people on the planet. In my lifetime, one or two |
| 1:03.5 | billion more people living at the same time is me pretty likely. Other things are somewhat clear |
| 1:08.9 | like in terms of energy will probably stop burning coal but is it going to be nuclear or solar |
| 1:14.3 | or wind? What's going to dominate? Will nuclear fusion be a possibility? Who knows? |
| 1:19.4 | My guest on this week's podcast focuses on work that he calls the long path. It's a future |
| 1:24.5 | focus vision for living today, planning for the future to be a good ancestor to your kids. |
| 1:30.4 | If you're new here, it's the Lucas Rockwood show. I am a yoga teacher, a trainer, a serial entrepreneur, |
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