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Most people live in a world that is teeming with fear, animosity, and divisiveness,

leading them into a spiral of anxiety, hopelessness, and despair. I read an article recently that suggests

over 90% of the world operates with a critical mental flaw, a reverse cognitive bias of sorts.

90% of people operate reactive, meaning they wait for things

to happen. They don't take initiative. Then when those things happen they react to things and that is how they spend their lives and in

case you haven't noticed people's reactions to happenings are getting increasingly more

and more extreme,

occupying vast amounts of mental, emotional, and spiritual life force.

And this is why most people are exhausted and stuck.

What I think the world really needs

are people who can be proactive.

Here's how.

Imagine the future, say 10 years from now.

Imagine it as bigger, better, and brighter.

In all the areas people are most concerned about, be it from health care, education, safety, to the environment and world peace. Then take that envisioned future and work

backwards. Now with that future in mind we can see clearly what actually matters to get there. With that envisioned future in

mind we can decide what moves to make, what actions to take now, what to work on,

and what to just disregard.

This reverse engineering perspective gets us out of the immediate tunnel,

the tunnel where we get caught being reactive versus proactive. We start to see the forest for the trees as it

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