Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Bend Not Break Part 5: Criteria and Categories for Response" | The Great Simplification #50
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
4.8 • 555 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2022
⏱️ 141 minutes
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Summary
Show Summary:
On this 5th and final installment of the Bend Not Break series with Daniel Schmachtenberger, we unpack the framework and mindset needed to begin thinking about responses. This conversation touches on what it means to work on personal development in the light of a polycrisis, and how it is truly a never ending but necessary challenge. Finally, Daniel and Nate break down a 3x3 grid on time frame and category of responses.
Whilst this is the end of this series, there is, of course, much left to be unpacked. If there are any specific topics you want covered in a follow up Daniel/Nate conversation, we encourage you to leave your questions in the comments of the Youtube video, which can be found here -> https://youtu.be/Kep8Fi_rUUI
About Daniel Schmachtenberger:
Daniel Schmachtenberger is a founding member of The Consilience Project, aimed at improving public sensemaking and dialogue.
The throughline of his interests has to do with ways of improving the health and development of individuals and society, with a virtuous relationship between the two as a goal.
Towards these ends, he's had particular interest in the topics of catastrophic and existential risk, civilization and institutional decay and collapse as well as progress, collective action problems, social organization theories, and the relevant domains in philosophy and science.
For Show Notes and More visit: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/50-daniel-schmachtenberger
To watch this video episode on Youtube → https://youtu.be/Kep8Fi_rUUI
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Great Simplification with Nate Higgins. |
| 0:06.0 | That's me. |
| 0:07.7 | On this show, we try to explore and simplify what's happening with energy, the economy, |
| 0:14.3 | the environment, and our society. |
| 0:17.0 | Together with scientists, experts, and leaders, this show is about understanding the bird's eye view of how everything fits together, where we go from here and what we can do about it as a society and as individuals. |
| 0:32.9 | We have arrived at episode five in the series with my friend and colleague Daniel Schmockenberger called Bend Not Break. |
| 0:42.9 | In this final episode of this series, we do an overview of short-term, intermediate term, long-term, and culture, political economy, infrastructure, a three by three grid on how do we think about |
| 0:57.3 | responding to the upcoming metacrisis, to the upcoming great simplification? |
| 1:03.5 | At the end, Daniel and I invite viewers to put questions in the comment section on YouTube for what we might do a follow-up |
| 1:13.1 | episode on. This was quite a journey. We twended our way through the fifth episode and I hope |
| 1:22.6 | you enjoy it. Without any further ado, here is Daniel. |
| 1:39.8 | Greetings, my friend. |
| 1:42.1 | Good to see you, my friend. |
| 1:43.0 | Happy to be back. |
| 1:44.1 | You too. You look especially wise today. |
| 1:48.3 | Yeah, that happens when I don't trim the beard for a while. It's a nice effect. |
| 1:52.7 | You had some wisdom 30 years ago or whenever that was you chose to move from Iowa to San Diego. |
| 1:59.9 | It's going to be zero Fahrenheit here tomorrow night. |
| 2:03.1 | It's freaking ridiculous, man. |
| 2:04.8 | I don't know why I've chosen to live here because you can't exercise. |
| 2:09.0 | You're like, yeah, I'm going to go for a snowshoe and you go outside and, |
| 2:11.7 | no, I'm going to go watch a podcast. |
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