Achievement and productivity are about working in conjunction with your health, not in despite of it. Sustainability is about a considered choice, evaluating options and weighing up the balance of activity and effort. It is about learning to do less rather than more.
We live in the age of progress, an age of unlimited information, yet paradoxically we are reaching unparallelled levels of stupidity, producing a generation of very quick, but very shallow thinkers.
We need to slow down - at least our levels of consumption. For we have become information junkies, addicted to the zeros and ones that keep us updated, notified and connected. We need to unplug ourselves simply because we need to in order to understand not just where we are, where we are going and who knows, maybe even why we do the things we do.
And if during the last century we thought we saw ¨progress¨ sprinting at a previously unseen pace, then buckle yourself in, for the ride of your life. Some have proposed that the exponential changes that accompany the advances in technology will mean that we will witness the equivalent of 20.000 years of progress over the next 100.
