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Sustainable Minimalists

Future-Conscious Thinking

Sustainable Minimalists

Bleav + Stephanie Seferian

Kids & Family, Leisure, Parenting, Home & Garden

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Many people — and many societies, for that matter — rely on short-sighted quick wins as their go-to when managing oversized problems. But what works in the short-term likely isn't best in the long run; worse, such near-sightedness rarely considers its impacts on generations to come. Enter longpath thinking, a mindset that prioritizes future-conscious thinking and behavior. On today's episode I speak with author and futurist Ari Wallach. Ari argues that when we step away from knee-jerk reactions we both reclaim life meaning and help preserve the planet for future generations. And if making daily decisions by considering their reverberations 500 years from now sounds revolutionary to you, you're absolutely right. Ari's on the show to ease our transition to future-consciousness in 3 simple steps.   Here’s a preview:  [2:00] “Future” isn’t a noun; it’s a verb. Here’s why [4:30] Debunking lifespan biases so as to create a better world for future generations [6:00] 3 problems associated with short-termism [11:30] How an understanding of transgenerational empathy encourages us to act on behalf of future generations [17:00] What doubling down on sandbag strategies means for fulfilling our collective moral obligations [20:00] 3 ways to start practicing longpath thinking and acting right now   Resources mentioned: Longpath: Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs Watch Ari's TEDx Talk: 3 Ways To Plan For The (Very) Long Term

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0:00.0

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1:00.8

Hello listeners and welcome back. sustainable.

1:05.0

Hello, listeners and welcome back. My name is Stephanie Safarian, and you're listening to episode 299 of sustainable minimalists,

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a twice weekly show about intentional and eco-minimalist living.

1:15.0

On today's show, we are discussing the principles of long path thinking.

1:20.0

Many of us tend to be short-termists. We think five years into the future or maybe 10.

1:27.0

Even my favorite question for putting things in perspective, which of course is,

1:31.0

will this matter in five years that is a short-term way of thinking

1:36.4

if you're like most of us perhaps you occasionally take a longer-term view in which you think

1:42.1

about the long-term as being from this exact moment

1:45.7

until the moment we die. But my guest today argues that we all, so each and every one

1:52.3

of us, will benefit from a long path view of thinking.

1:57.6

And that's one that extends beyond our own personal lives, beyond our respective deaths and into the generations that come after us.

2:07.8

Today I am speaking with Ari Wallach. He is a futurist and he is the founder and executive director of Long Path Labs.

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