(토요모임) [31. Mar. 2018] Saturday meeting Topic

[Scarlet]

Howdy ! 

It's me Scarlett !   

This week we have 4 categories of topics. Do not be obsessed with all the articles too much. Just pick some articles what you have interests and prepare your opinions related to those articles. :) Detailed lists are as follows.

◈ Love : 

---- These are the questions one writer says can make you fall in love with a stranger

◈ Tech. issue : 

---- You could soon be eating meat grown by plants

---- From smog diamonds to algae street-lights. This man is designing a cleaner, greener, brighter future

◈ Psychology : 

---- Most People Have Great Potential. But Very Few of Them Unleash It

◈ Economics & Politics : 

---- The troubling charts that show young people losing faith in democracy

---- The global economy is broken. Inclusive capitalism can fix it

---- The Meaning of Inclusive Capitalism

Hope you enjoy the topics.

With luv

Scarlett

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These are the questions one writer says 

can make you fall in love with a stranger

Erin Brodwin / Jan. 13, 2015, 11:23 AM

What if love weren't as passive as we tend to picture it being?

What if, instead of stumbling into it as a result of chance or fate, we actively choose it?

In 1997, State University of New York psychologist Arthur Aron tested the idea that two people who were willing to feel more connected to each other could do so, even within a short time.The experiment is featured prominently in a recent Modern Love column in The New York Times, in which the author pointed to the questions as the springboard into her own romance; more on that here.

For his study, Aron separated two groups of people, then paired people up within their groups and had them chat with one another for 45 minutes. While the first group of pairs spent the 45 minutes engaging in small talk, the second group got a list of questions that gradually grew more intimate.

Not surprisingly, the pairs who asked the gradually more probing questions felt closer and more connected after the 45 minutes were up. Six months later, two of the participants (a tiny fraction of the original study group) even found themselves in love — an intriguing result, though not a significant one.

Here are the 36 questions the pairs in Aron's test group asked one another, broken up into three sets. Each set is intended to be more intimate than the one that came before.

 Question Set 1

1. Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want as a dinner guest?

2. Would you like to be famous? In what way?

3. Before making a telephone call, do you ever rehearse what you are going to say? Why?

4. What would constitute a "perfect" day for you?

5. When did you last sing to yourself? To someone else?

6. If you were able to live to the age of 90 and retain either the mind or body of a 30-year-old for the last 60 years of your life, which would you want?

7. Do you have a secret hunch about how you will die?

8. Name three things you and your partner appear to have in common.

9. For what in your life do you feel most grateful?

10. If you could change anything about the way you were raised, what would it be?

11. Take four minutes and tell your partner your life story in as much detail as possible.

12. If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one quality or ability, what would it be?

 Question Set 2

13. If a crystal ball could tell you the truth about yourself, your life, the future or anything else, what would you want to know?

14. Is there something that you’ve dreamed of doing for a long time? Why haven’t you done it?

15. What is the greatest accomplishment of your life?

16. What do you value most in a friendship?

17. What is your most treasured memory?

18. What is your most terrible memory?

19. If you knew that in one year you would die suddenly, would you change anything about the way you are now living? Why?

20. What does friendship mean to you?

21. What roles do love and affection play in your life?

22. Alternate sharing something you consider a positive characteristic of your partner. Share a total of five items.

23. How close and warm is your family? Do you feel your childhood was happier than most other people’s?

24. How do you feel about your relationship with your mother?

 Question Set 3

25. Make three true "we" statements each. For instance, "We are both in this room feeling ______."

26. Complete this sentence: “I wish I had someone with whom I could share _______.”

27. If you were going to become a close friend with your partner, please share what would be important for him or her to know.

28. Tell your partner what you like about them; be very honest this time, saying things that you might not say to someone you’ve just met.

29. Share with your partner an embarrassing moment in your life.

30. When did you last cry in front of another person? By yourself?

31. Tell your partner something that you like about them already.

32. What, if anything, is too serious to be joked about?

33. If you were to die this evening with no opportunity to communicate with anyone, what would you most regret not having told someone? Why haven’t you told them yet?

34. Your house, containing everything you own, catches fire. After saving your loved ones and pets, you have time to safely make a final dash to save any one item. What would it be? Why?

35. Of all the people in your family, whose death would you find most disturbing? Why?

36. Share a personal problem and ask your partner’s advice on how he or she might handle it. Also, ask your partner to reflect back to you how you seem to be feeling about the problem you have chosen.

Try them out, and let us know what happens.

Article source : http://www.businessinsider.com/questions-psychologist-says-can-make-you-fall-in-love-2015-1?utm_content=buffer0f6cc&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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<Questions>

Q1. What is your definition of LOVE? 

Q2. Why do you love someone? 

Q3. Could you explain changes of your status when you are falling in love? 

Q4. Have you ever loved someone you should not? 

Q5. How do you deal with your relationship when your passionate emotion to your partner is fade away from you? 

Q6. What is your favorite movie or song in terms of love?

Q7. Do you think you can fall in love with a stranger? 

Q8. Could you describe your ideal type? Who is close to your ideal type among celebrities? Why do you select him/her as your ideal type? 

Q9. Please try above 36 questions out with your table members. And please let us know your status. Do you feel more closeness to your table members to fall in love with them? 

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You could soon be eating meat grown by plants

15 Sep 2017/ Sophie Hares/ Freelance Journalist

Juicy lab-grown steaks and burgers made of plant-based meat could soon be tempting hardened carnivores scanning restaurant menus in the world's biggest cities, as food producers explore fresh ways to feed booming populations.

With people pouring into cities across the developing world, rocketing demand for meat and dairy products will make it essential to find high-protein alternatives that have a lower environmental impact, some experts say.

"The food of the future, as we become more and more urban, will continue to be meat but it won't be meat from industrialised animal agriculture," said Bruce Friedrich, executive director of the Washington-based Good Food Institute.

"It will be meat made from plants, and it will be meat grown in factories without farmers and slaughterhouses," said Friedrich, who calculates that traditional meat will be eliminated in high-income countries by 2050.

Others predict bugs or high-protein algae such as spirulina will be high on the list of future foods, along with fish produced in deep-sea farms or vast urban warehouses.

But with a 50 percent jump in agricultural production needed to support nearly 10 billion people by 2050 as climate change bites, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), more obvious solutions may lie in cutting calories and animal protein in the diets of the rich, making agriculture more efficient, and reducing the one-third of food that is wasted.

About 80 percent of all agricultural land is dedicated to grazing or growing feed for animals, the FAO says. In addition, the livestock industry consumes 10 percent of the world's freshwater, while generating methane and other planet-warming emissions, and causing large-scale deforestation.

Kind to animals

A handful of companies are racing to develop technology that could drastically reduce the price of so-called "cultured" or "clean" meat, grown from starter cells taken from live animals.

They say it could eventually be produced in urban "breweries", would cost less than real meat, and use 99 percent less land.

"Meat-eaters in a few years will be able to choose between traditional meat that includes animal suffering and non-animal suffering meat that is 100 percent meat and resembles meat's texture, taste and look," said Yaron Bogin, CEO of the Israel-based Modern Agriculture Foundation.

Elsewhere, start-ups are using "cellular agriculture" to develop animal-free eggs, milk and fish.

San Francisco-based Hampton Creek wants to get the first clean meat product to consumers next year, but industry watchers and other companies say huge technological and regulatory hurdles mean it will take five years for the food to arrive in high-end restaurants and a decade to reach mass-market consumers.

"You'll be able to create food you can store and transport easily," said Ido Savir, chief executive of Israeli firm SuperMeat, whose cultured chicken will be kosher and halal. The technology will help feed people in developing countries who now consume almost no meat or have a poor-quality diet, he added.

Big producers in the $750-billion meat market are also looking at alternatives. Top U.S. meat processor Tyson Foods has set up a $150-million fund to develop cheap, alternative protein sources and invested in plant-based meat company Beyond Meat.

Meanwhile, Bill Gates, Richard Branson and commodities giant Cargill have sunk money into California's Memphis Meats which is developing "clean" poultry, beef and pork.

Bet on bugs

Other entrepreneurs are eyeing protein-rich bugs, already eaten by billions, which could easily be bred in cities on urban farms that don't take up large slabs of pricey real estate.

New York's Terreform ONE has developed a futuristic modular shelter and cricket farm, crowned with spiky quills, ideal for cultivating high-protein crickets that can be ground into flour.

"You can see protein changing because it can be produced inside cities," said Mitchell Joachim, Terreform co-founder.

"It makes a lot of sense to do it in the case of insects - pound for pound it's a crushing difference. It's almost 1,000 times less water, 300 times less carbon. It's incredibly cheap to make bugs in cities," he added.

Affordable pricing and astute marketing are key to convincing consumers to try radically new foods, particularly as they find it harder to ignore the ethical and environmental impact of their purchases.

"It's always money; it's availability," said Morgaine Gaye, a food futurologist. "We'd like to think it's about how good it tastes, but that's actually pretty far down the line as you've got to get someone to pick it off the shelf."

The "celebrity cool factor" can make a big difference to sales, if companies can get stars to endorse brands, she added.

Despite the buzz around future foods, countries could still manage to meet growing demand and environmental targets using what we eat today if they make key changes to the food system, said Lorenzo Giovanni Bellù, a senior economist with the FAO.

Methods like precision agriculture, tailored to the exact requirements of crops, could make production more efficient, while using more renewable energy would cut carbon emissions, said Bellù.

Diets also need to become better balanced to cut over-eating, especially of meat, while increasing the amount of animal protein available to the poor, he added.

Many simple solutions exist that can harness what the world already knows, he emphasised, including adapting existing technologies for poorer countries.

"We have a lot of things to do before eating insects," he said.

Article source : https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/09/you-could-soon-be-eating-meat-grown-by-plants
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From smog diamonds to algae street-lights. 

This man is designing a cleaner, greener, brighter future 

25 Jun 2017/ Daan Roosegaarde / Founder, Studio Roosegaarde

Daan Roosegaarde stole the show this year in Dalian, with his Smog-Free Project, a tower that sucks up polluted air, cleans it and releases it back into parks and playgrounds. Another aspect of the project saw the captured smog turned into diamonds.

Roosegaarde came up with the idea while gazing out over Beijing’s polluted skyline, and many of the Dutch artist and innovator’s designs have been inspired by the natural world and the relationship between people, technology, and space.

Studio Roosegaarde, the social design lab he runs out of Rotterdam and Shanghai, has also looked at using bioluminescent algae to light up our paths and waterways, bicycles that filter pollution and direct a stream of clean air towards the cyclist and motorways which charge from sunlight and glow at night.

Here, Roosegaarde discusses the progress of some his most exciting work.

This time a couple of years ago, you created a stir in China with your Smog Free Tower – a kind of outdoor vacuum cleaner that sucks up pollution. What’s new with that?

We’ve proved it works! That’s really important.

A team at the Eindhoven University of Technology showed that people can enjoy significantly cleaner air in its vicinity.

To be precise: the researchers found that within 20 metres of a tower, you are breathing 45% fewer PM10 – that’s particles of pollution that are less than 10 microns in size – and 25% fewer PM2.5.

We have lots of interest now from mayors around the world.

We are displaying the Smog-Free Tower in Dalian this week, and producing more towers in China. We’re about to launch the project in India.

The tower is an attention-grabbing conversation-starter, but is it also a practical solution to the problem of urban air pollution?

Yes, we see it as a local solution.I don’t see it as purely an artistic statement because I aim to have the tower working at scale in parks. The project shows the beauty of clean air, and clean energy. But the ideal future, obviously, isn’t polluted cities with clean air in parks. It’s cities where the air is clean everywhere.

That means more investments in green tech. I’d like the Smog-Free Project to spark conversations with governments, NGOs and universities on how to do that.

The Smog-Free Project, by the way, isn’t only about the tower. We make Smog-Free Rings by compressing smog filtered by the tower, and by purchasing one you donate 1000 square meters of clean air. We hold Smog-Free Dialogues where we invite scholars and other makers who create innovative solutions for smog-free cities. From the one we held at the contemporary art museum M Woods in Beijing, we developed the idea of Smog-Free Bicycles, which inhale the polluted air, clean it, and direct a stream of clean air towards the cyclist.

We recently released the concept, and it is creating a lot of attention in the media. We hope to find a solid partner who would like to develop this further.

Another project you’re launching soon is light installations that use bioluminescent algae. How did that come about?

I enjoy diving at night. When you shut off your flashlight underwater, you see swarms of bioluminescent algae.

You move through them, and they respond to the movement by lighting up like fireflies.

Nobody knows why they do this, by the way – whether it’s to convey information, or scare predators, or it’s just an epiphenomenon. For the last two years, I’ve been working with a team at Wageningen University and Studio Roosegaarde to collect, nurture and selectively breed these algae.

Now we have, without doubt, the brightest in the world. Shake a jar of them, and it lights up.

We’ve increased their longevity, too – they survive for several months. We’re planning to use them in layers of water, one or two centimetres thick, so they shine as you interact with them.

You’ll first be able to experience this in November at the Afsluitdijk, the 32-kilometre dike, which protects the Netherlands against flooding.

As part of the dike’s renovation, we were asked by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment in the Netherlands to create an installation that uses light in various ways to make people think about how the dike shields the country from the sea.

Along the dike are old concrete bunkers from wartime. We’ll show the bioluminescent algae there.

Is this, like the Smog Free Tower, an example of an artistic statement that could potentially have practical applications at scale?

We like to start with a big statement with an installation, and there is always a desire to upscale.

I can imagine, for example, using bioluminescent algae to light bicycle paths through a forest, where you don’t want to have invasive LEDs.

There’s something magical about having dark places lit up by these ancient organisms, alive and responsive.

What does nature teach us about design, and what other problems in the world might we be able to solve by looking to nature for inspiration?

I’ve recently been in Brazil to see the work of Luis Forti.

He studied ant colonies by pouring concrete into abandoned anthills then excavating. And he discovered an incredibly complex and beautiful system of logistics, including ventilation shafts – in effect, ants have engineered underground air conditioning. Now that’s a smart city.

So, what principles might we learn from ants to make our own cities more liveable?

Ants manage not to have traffic jams, for example. Their waste becomes food for others. Could we understand how they do it, and copy-morph those principles into our own cities?

Or think about the silent way an owl flies. Might that teach us anything about reducing noise pollution from aircraft?

These questions may sound esoteric but they are worth asking. Nature isn’t just to look at and be amazed by, it’s a potential pool of knowledge.

There’s no shortage of technology or money in this world, but there is often a shortage of imagination.

Another question you’re asking is how to solve the problem of space debris. How did you get interested in that?

In a crazy way, I am a voluntary prisoner of my imagination – I get obsessed by things. Four years ago, looking out of a Beijing hotel room window, I became inspired by Beijing smog. And working on the Smog-Free Tower led me to wonder whether similar principles might work for space debris.

Right now, the Americans are tracking 23,000 pieces of space debris that have been caused by collisions between satellites.

Any one of them could take down another satellite, creating yet more debris, and a higher chance of further collisions, until conceivably we pass a tipping point where all the satellites are taken out, we can’t launch spacecraft through the debris, and humankind has trapped itself inside a layer of space waste.

What a future that would be to leave to our kids.

I don’t have an answer yet, but I’m enjoying conversations with astronauts and tech companies to think through possible approaches.

Is this something you’re doing on your own initiative, rather than something a client has commissioned you to think about?

About 60% of what my studio does is commissioned by someone – a government, a city, an entrepreneur – and 40% is self-commissioned, putting our own time and money into developing an idea and seeing where it goes.

After all, four years ago, nobody was going to call me up and say “we’d like you to build a Smog-Free Tower”.

How do you think about the balance in your work between solving problems, making art and directing people’s attention to important issues?

Everything I do has some poetic and some pragmatic ingredients. And the common aim is to improve life, whether that’s in the short term by proposing practical solutions or in the longer term by triggering conversations.

Ultimately, impact comes not only from the bottom up or the top down, but from what happens when they meet in the middle.

That’s why I value the World Economic Forum, because people like me can come with proposals and connect with governments. Together we have the power to enforce and enhance and improve.

Article source : https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/06/smog-diamonds-algae-design-daan-roosegaarde

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< Questions >

Q1. Have you ever heard about the animal welfare or future foods?

Q2. What ideas coming up when you heard about the word 'plant based meat'? Would you try it?

Q3. Currently, the buzz around future foods are emerging issue such as plant-based meat, insects, high-protein algae(spirulian) and fish produced in deep-sea farms or vast urban warehouse. What do you think of those food. Would you try it if it is way more cheaper than ordinary food.

Q4. Talk about what you have eaten today.

Q5. What is the most unhealthy food you can think of?

Q6. Do you think that organic food is much better than normal food or are they about the same?

Q7. Are you a vegetarian? If you are vegetarian how do you consume the protein?

Q8. Do you think a vegetarian diet is better than a diet that includes meat?

Q9. How do you think about fascinating technologies such as smog diamonds or algae street-lights?

Q10. If you face the similar troubles in your community, would you apply those technologies into your community?

Q11. What would happen if one day we could not launch spacecraft through the debris. In other words, humankind has trapped itself inside a layer of space waste. Do you have your own solutions on this matter?

Q12. Do you find any similar examples like satellite debries which face the Tragedy of the commons?

*** Tragedy of the commons

The tragedy of the commons is a term used in social science to describe a situation in a shared-resource system where individual users acting independently according to their own self-interest behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting or spoiling that resource through their collective action.

Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

Q13. Do you find any annoying problems around you? Did you take any actions for it?

Q14. How do you think about Daan Roosegaarde's approach to mimic nature's function to tackle the faced problems in his community?

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Most People Have Great Potential. 

But Very Few of Them Unleash It

Rima Pundir

After having worked with magazines like Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping and Prevention, Rima J Pundir hung up her work heels and became a WAHM.

Has any authority figure ever come up to you and told you that you have the potential for so much more, but are not reaching for it? Or have you yourself ever felt that despite achieving all that you have, there’s a lot in you that needs to be explored and reached for, but you are pulling yourself back somehow? The first step to self-actualization is often realizing this. Once you have done so, the actual journey can begin.

 Why Do We Need Self Actualization?

Self-actualization is a theory created by Abraham Maslow that “represents growth of an individual toward fulfillment of the highest needs; those for meaning in life, in particular.”.

Basically, think of who or what you are today and what you could be, ideally, down the road that leads you to search for the truth in yourself, for the true potential in yourself and for the all the good and altruistic tendencies in you. A person who has achieved self-actualization knows all of life’s meaning and purpose – be it basic needs or a higher calling.

According to Maslow, self-actualization is a step-by-step process: first you satisfy your basic needs (things like money, shelter, food), then comes the need to satisfy the social desires (love, friends, family) and then comes the most difficult step: to be as self-confident a person, as mentally and internally strong, as you can be, no matter the challenges or circumstances. So the need for self-actualization is simple – to be the best that we can be.

 Essential Skills Needed To Reach Self-Actualization

Perhaps the first step to self-actualization is the fact that you are not yet your ideal self, but that’s okay. You first need to learn to accept who you truly are, however lacking you may be in certain aspects. The second thing to realize is the path to self-actualization is perhaps a winding, interesting but never-ending road – there’s always more to learn, even if it’s about your own, true self.

So here go the essential skills you need, and the steps you need to take to reach self-actualization, as guided by Maslow :

Skill 1: Accept Yourself Holistically, And Just Be You

You are unique, be it in your achievements, talents or even fallacies. There isn’t anyone like you – and the mistakes you made, they are nothing but milestones in your way to success.

Be who you truly are and want to be. Cloaking your true nature in a bid to please others will work only so much, and for so long. Ultimately, the ones around you need to see and accept the real you but before that you have to see and accept the real you, yourself. Don’t be or say or do what others want you to, think about what is right and wrong – and always follow the path that seems right to you. The key thing to do here is to remember that it has to be selfless, ego free and on the path of righteousness.

Remember not to compare yourself to anyone – no matter how much better, more successful or simply “more” someone else is. You are you, and you are your best canvas. Remember that you write your own destiny, and that you are the one in control of who you want to be. Tell yourself that, in front of the mirror if you need to.

Skill 2: Be Honest, Brutally, With Yourself And Gently With Others

The decisions you make in life need to come from an honest and truthful place – be true to yourself always. Not to say that being dishonest with others is a good thing, but if you start lying to yourself, there’s no end to the vicious cycle you’ll end up trapping yourself in. What you do, why you did it and what you will do next all needs to come from a place of stark honesty and nothing else.

Maintain a diary of your actions and their explanations. Many of us often tell little white lies about our lives to others. The reason mostly being that we are dissatisfied with ourselves, or ashamed of something we feel we lack, and so we often cover-up and hedge and pretend to be something we are not. Problem is that when we lie to others, we end up believing it ourselves and then the line between truth and honesty tends to get blurred. The path to self-actualization is paved with bricks of truth, always.

Skill 3: Think Of Challenges As Obstacles, Not Insurmountable Walls

Sooner or later you will face resistance in your solitary walk to self-actualization. People may not like that you have changed, they may not like that you are choosing to pull away from them or the life you were leading earlier – and they will try to pull you back. Still others will brand you as stubborn, or principled, or too idealistic or just plain wacko.

You have to let these things slide off of you. You have to rise above it all and not be bothered by it. Do not change your way in case challenges are thrown your way, do not shift to the path of least resistance to “smooth” things over. No one said that this road was going to be easy, but the results and the journey in itself will make you the happiest you can ever be. 

Skill 4: Live In the Moment, And Be Grateful For All That You Are

People on the path of self-actualization have truly understood that their time on this planet is finite, as is everybody’s. And this finiteness is also very dubious: you never know what the next moment will bring, or when you’d suddenly meet your Maker. Living in each and every moment is one way to ensure that when it is your time to go, you go with nary regret.

Remember to be grateful for all the little things in life – the sun on your face, the fragrance of rain-wet earth, the loved ones in your life, all the good things that happened to you and all the bad things too (for they made you learn and rise up to the occasion) and of course, for just being you.

Skill 5: Never Stop Questioning or Learning, Ever

The meaning of life, for people who have reached self-actualization or are well on their way to it, is a never ending quest. This quest is not materialistic or even ambitious in its nature, rather, it is simply a thirst for knowledge, for self-development and for being better than who you were a day, hour or even minute ago.

People who want to reach self-actualization have already accepted the best and the worst about themselves. Now they are on road to better themselves, to help someone along the way if they can, and to make a positive change in the world if they so can. They know, understand and accept that there is no such thing as perfection and that life, despite all the challenges and hardships, is a beautiful gift meant to be enjoyed to the fullest in the literal sense of knowledge too.

 The Pitfalls That You Need To Avoid On The Path To Self-Actualization

People on the path to self-actualization have learnt to take failure in their stride, accept and even delight in their imperfections and have a control over their emotions. 9 Here’s what not to do:

- Stop mulling on your failures or “deficiencies”: 

No one is perfect, accept that and accept yourself.

- Stop “not knowing”:

Ignorance is as big a sin – learn about yourself, the world and keep the quest on.

- Nip that self-pity: 

So you didn’t achieve a goal or two or ten – shake it off and start striving again. Feeling sorry for yourself will not get you anywhere.

- Kill your ego: 

Your ego and your high opinion of yourself will get you nowhere if you want to be on the path to self-actualization. Kill your ego and be as selfless as possible.

- Do not be too materialistic: 

No, we are not asking you to give up your worldly possessions or pursuits. But don’t make them your sole goal, there has to be a higher calling than that sometimes.

All in all, if you stay true to yourself and your beliefs, try to be as good and morally upright a person that you can be and keep on the quest to be a better person – you are on a good road to self-actualization, and will soon reach your goals. Remember that is not the end, just a great new beginning!

REFERENCES

[1] Psychology Today: The Theory of Self-Actualization

[2] Self Growth: On the Ro ad to Unconditional Self-Acceptance

[3] Operation Meditation: How To Reach Self Actualization

[4] Pysch Central: Therapists Spill 12 Ways To Accept Yourself

[5] Tiny Buddha: 4 Steps To Tell The Truth About Yourself And To Yourself

[6] Live Bold And Bloom: 20 Ways To Overcome Life Challenges

[7] Reader’s Digest: Mindfulness Tips

[8] Distractify: 11 Ways To Never Stop Learning From Everyday Life

[9] 1Vigor: Self Actualization

Article source : http://www.lifehack.org/586147/essential-skills-required-for-achieving-self-actualization

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< Questions >

Q1. What is the definition of self actualization? 

Q2. Self-actualization is a step-by-step process according to Maslow: you satisfy your 'Basic Needs', then comes the need to satisfy the 'Social desires' and lastly comes to the process to be as 'Self-confident a person', as mentally and internally strong, as you can be, no matter the challenges or circumstances. Do you think What is the most important needs for youself? 

Q3. You write your own destiny, and that you are the one in control of who you want to be. In this perspective, what is the ideal image of yourself? Describe it in detail. 

Q4. There are 5 skills to reach 'Self-Actualization'. Why don't you judge yourself with below criteria?

Skill 1: Accept Yourself Holistically, And Just Be You

Skill 2: Be Honest, Brutally, With Yourself And Gently With Others

Skill 3: Think Of Challenges As Obstacles, Not Insurmountable Walls

Skill 4: Live In the Moment, And Be Grateful For All That You Are

Skill 5: Never Stop Questioning or Learning, Ever

Q5. Do you know what you really want to do or want to be? What is it? What is the obstacles to reach your own goals? When you face that obstacles in front of you, how do you react to it?

Q6. Are you honest to yourself or to others? 

Q7. Have you ever thought about your life’s meaning and purpose deeply? 

Q8. There are 5 pitfalls that you need to avoid on the path to self-actualization as belows. How about you? Do you have those tendencies? 

- Stop mulling on your failures or “deficiencies”

- Stop “not knowing”

- Nip that self-pity

- Kill your ego

- Do not be too materialistic

Q9. Who are you Serving?/ What are you creating? / What are you scared of?

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The troubling charts that show young people losing faith in democracy

Written by Alex Gray/ Formative Content/ Published Thursday 1 December 2016

More and more people in the West are losing faith in democracy. And the younger they are, the worse the trend.

Harvard lecturer Yascha Mounk and Roberto Stefan Foa, a political scientist at the University of Melbourne in Australia, have published a study which looks at decades worth of data on attitudes towards democracy, revealing some alarming results.

People aren’t as supportive of democracy as they used to be

This chart, published in the New York Times, shows a systematic decline in the percentage of people who think that it is essential to live in a democracy, depending on what decade they were born in.

How essential it is to live in a democracy, by age range  Image: New York Times

It shows that those born in the 1930s believe in democracy much more than those born in the 1980s. Some 72% of those born in the 1930s in America think democracy is absolutely essential. So do 55% of the same cohort in the Netherlands.

But the millennial generation (those born since 1980) has grown much more indifferent. For example, only one in three Dutch millennials says the same; in the United States, that number is slightly lower, around 30%.

“Over the last three decades, trust in political institutions such as parliaments or the courts has precipitously declined across the established democracies of North America and Western Europe. So has voter turnout,” say the authors of the study in an earlier paper.

Authoritarian rule

Younger people are more open to the alternatives to democracy, such as military rule.

Overall, more people thought democracy was a bad way to run a country in 2011 than in 1995. In 1995, only 16% of Americans born in the 1970s believed that democracy was a “bad” political system for their country.

In 2011 that figure went up to 20% – or one fifth.

Those born in the 1980s were even less enamoured with democracy – 24% of U.S. millennials considered democracy to be a “bad” or “very bad” way of running the country in 2011.

Europe showed a similar trend. In 2011, 13% of European youth aged 16 to 24 expressed such a view, up from 8% among the same age group in the mid-1990s.

 Beliefs in democracy   Image: Mounk/Foa 2016

Young people were also more willing to express support for authoritarian alternatives.

43% of older Americans do not think that the military should be allowed to take over when the government is incompetent or failing to do its job.

Amongst younger people the figure is much lower at 19%.

In Europe, the generation gap is somewhat less stark but equally clear, with 53% of older Europeans and only 36% of millennials strongly rejecting the notion that a government’s incompetence can justify having the army “take over”.

Young people aren’t as interested in politics

But young people are also increasingly less interested in politics than their older counterparts, as this chart shows.

 The Widening Political Apathy Gap   Image: Journal of Democracy

As people get older their interest in politics increased, but the opposite happened to the younger generation, which means the gap between them has increased.

The generation gap between older and younger Americans between 1990 and 2010 has widened from 10 to 26 percentage points. Among European respondents, the gap between young and old more than tripled between 1990 and 2010, from 4 to 14 percentage points.

Why are young people fed up?

What frustrates over half of 18-35 year olds about government leaders in their country, according to the World Economic Forum Global Shapers survey, is the abuse of power and corruption.

Levels of bureaucracy and administrative barriers and lack of accountability bother almost a third of young people. Insincerity and lack of action trouble a quarter of young people. One fifth felt that the government doesn’t understand them.

 Percentage of unique votes   Image: New York Times

Are democracies safe – for now?

The New York Times article concludes that, ultimately, like most forms of research, this is just one theory: “And the researchers’ approach, like all data-driven social science, has limitations. It is only as good as the survey data that underlies it, for instance, and it does not take into account other factors that could be important to overall stability, such as economic growth.

“At least one prominent political scientist argues that Mr Mounk’s and Mr Foa’s data is not as worrying as they believe it to be,” says the newspaper.

The authors, in their earlier paper, agree that much more research needs to be done to figure out what’s really happening to democracy.

However, they also warn that: “If we take the number of people who claim to endorse democracy at face value, no regime type in the history of mankind has held such universal and global appeal as democracy does today.

“Yet the reality of contemporary democracies looks rather less triumphant than this fact might suggest. Citizens of democracies are less and less content with their institutions.”

Article Source : https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/12/charts-that-show-young-people-losing-faith-in-democracy?utm_content=buffera9ca6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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The global economy is broken. Inclusive capitalism can fix it

Written by Andrew Liveris/ Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Dow Chemical Company

Published Wednesday 18 January 2017

This article is part of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2017

The great 19th-century chemist Louis Pasteur once said, “Science knows no country because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.” The innovative technologies and ideas sweeping the globe today are proving Pasteur right in ways he could not have possibly imagined. Indeed, the advances that are driving the Fourth Industrial Revolution belong to all of humankind.

While the impact of innovation is global, it affects different populations in dramatically different ways. For some, rapidly changing realities have brightened their economic outlook; for others, who are left behind by this progress, they cast a darkening shadow of dissatisfaction with the global economy. For those of us who believe – based on history and experience – in the power of innovation to advance opportunity and prosperity around the world, it is time to redouble our efforts to forge a more inclusive capitalism where the benefits are experienced by everyone.

There is no question that, historically, innovation and global commerce have been tremendous forces for progress. According to the latest available data, the global economy is more than five times larger than it was half a century ago, and global per capita GDP has more than doubled over the same period. These numbers represent more than higher profits for corporations: they also amount to millions of jobs created and billions of lives improved. In 2015, the World Bank estimated that the share of the global population living in extreme poverty had fallen below 10% for the first time – down from over 40% barely three decades ago.

It is also evident, however, that the global economy is not serving everyone equally. In fact, many people believe it is not serving them all – and with good reason. In July 2016, the McKinsey Global Institute released an extensive report on incomes in 25 advanced economies worldwide, finding that between 65% and 70% of households were in income segments whose average incomes stagnated or declined between 2005 and 2014.

       Image: McKinsey Global Institute

That figure is even more staggering when compared to the 12 years leading up to 2005, when less than 2% of households were in segments with flat or falling incomes. It should not surprise us, then, that a majority of citizens in several of these countries say the global economy is no longer a force for good.

This widespread frustration is clearly warranted. But in order to drive progress, we must take steps to fix what is wrong with the global economy while actively participating in it. In the UK, for example, the Office of Budget and Responsibility projects that leaving the European Union will reduce Britain’s economic growth by 2.4 percentage points by 2020. Without decisive and inclusive action, the economic risk will only continue to grow. And while governments have an indispensable role to play, leadership from the private sector is no less essential.

Today, the private sector has a real opportunity to advance a new kind of capitalism – inclusive capitalism – that does not just generate profits for corporations, but truly creates opportunity and prosperity for everyone. Of course, this will not be easy to achieve. It will require individual enterprises, particularly those with global reach, to take on responsibilities traditionally outside their missions and beyond their balance sheets. Companies will need to do more to maximize the value they create for all the people and communities their business affects. In these essential ways, we can – and we must – redefine the role of business in society.

This is not to suggest that corporations should become charities. Quite the contrary: the businesses that grow and succeed in this volatile environment will be the ones that create the most value for society as a whole. The companies that define the 21st century will recognize that their license to operate is not simply granted by shareholders or governments; it is also earned through the solutions they provide, the jobs they create, and the role they play in communities around the world.

Inclusive capitalism is ultimately about re-embracing the purest purpose of business: solving problems and improving people’s lives. Especially in an era of uncertainty – with so many great, global challenges to solve – it is the only way to ensure that the progress achieved over the past century continues for the next century and beyond.

Article source : https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/01/the-global-economy-is-broken-inclusive-capitalism-can-fix-it

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The Meaning of Inclusive Capitalism

01/06/2016 10:26 am ET | Updated Jan 06, 2017

By Ignacio S. Galán, Chairman and CEO of Iberdrola

Inclusive capitalism must be focused on long-term value creation, always building on principles such as ethics and transparency. It can be defined as a more responsible form of capitalism which puts people at the heart of decision making, with the aim of fostering confidence, creating jobs and, more generally, ensuring the well-being of citizens.

It is the essential responsibility of corporations to materialize this concept. This duty derives from our wide involvement in society: We create and support jobs, promote investment, purchase from our suppliers, contribute to public finances, foster innovation and protect the natural environment.

In order to take full advantage of this potential and to ensure that the principles of inclusive capitalism become the driving force of the economy, companies require stable and predictable regulatory frameworks. Such frameworks allow them, in turn, to design and implement responsible and sustainable business models.

We at Iberdrola are convinced that it is possible to do business differently and that this new capitalism — based on the values of honesty, effort and responsibility — is possible. Our model rests on a long-term vision, ethics and transparency. We believe in the integration of people and cultures and sharing the economic benefits we generate with all our stakeholders.

True to these principles, we serve the communities in which we operate by making annual investments of 4 billion euros and annual purchases from suppliers totaling 5.4 billion euros. We also contribute 5.5 billion euros per annum to public finances through tax payments.

We offer our customers innovative solutions and, around the world, we have directly or indirectly created 350,000 jobs. We provide hundreds of scholarships to young graduates each year and promote personal and professional development amongst our employees, providing each with more than 40 hours of training annually.

Inclusive capitalism can be defined as a more responsible form of capitalism which puts people at the heart of decision-making. The meaning of inclusive capitalism I would also like to underline the company’s policy on equal opportunities and gender equality. In recent years the share of women in Iberdrola’s workforce has increased at all levels, and we are now among the top European companies for the proportion of women involved in company governance: our Lead Independent Director and the chairs of all Board subcommittees are women.

We are also implementing different measures to improve personal and professional life balance for employees.

Finally, as an energy company, we understand that fighting climate change is one of the pillars of our corporate social responsibility. Over our 150-year history, Iberdrola has always been focused on clean energy sources such as hydroelectricity and wind, such that we are now the leading wind energy generator in the world. Accordingly, we produce 30% less CO2 emissions per kWh than the European average and we have already met our 30% emissions reduction target for 2020. But we want to go further than this: we have committed to reduce our CO2 emissions by 50% by 2030 (from 2007 levels). Our goal is to become carbon neutral by 2050.

All in all, Iberdrola is firmly committed to our customers (continuously meeting their service expectations), to our suppliers (involving them in our responsible and ethical practices) and to the shareholders who have placed their confidence and trust in us (we create sustainable value for almost seven hundred thousand people, many of whom are pensioners). This is our way of bringing inclusive capitalism to life.

Article source : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/inclusive-capitalism/the-meaning-of-inclusive_b_8922230.html

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<Questions>

Q1. What is the definition of democracy? 

Q2. What is the definition of inclusive capitalism? How about inclusive growth? 

Q3. What is the most interesting political issue currently? 

Q4. What frustrates you the most about government leaders in your country(presidents, prime-ministers, ministers, governors, mayors, etc.)?

- Abuse of power/ corruption  - Bureaucracy and administrative barriers - Lack of accountability - Lack of action  - Lack of understanding of citizens - They do not represent my society.

- Special treatments - Salaries and benefits - Arrogance/ ego - They sound like typical politicians.  - Inaccessible

Q5. Do you have faith in democracy? What is reason for your answer? 

Q6. Do you think that inclusive capitalism can be a solution for our troubles?