How we can have more empathy? ❤️ Issue #42

Here it is, number 42, if you’re a nerd like me you understand you should not looking for the answer but for the questions. Glad you sticked around for this latest update, it’s an extraordinary one. 

Let’s look at solutions to be more connected to other people, to see the beauty in everyone, to get that extra mile for humanity.

I’ve written extensively about the disconnect, here about why Everyone’s connected, and there still is such disconnect? About a disconnected connected world with lots of technology and tools. 

And here Why we should have more difficult discussions with people we don’t know, with individuals that challenge our thinking.

I have never been to SF, but I have been in to the wild, in to places where amenities are appreciated. I have yet go to favelas of South America, Africa and the highest nordics where the sun only shines one hour a day.

This struck me completely:

Last year I wrote about people should go more into the wild, out of their comfort zone, go out there and travel more than 5 weeks a year. It was well received because it such a simple thing to start with, but so powerful in hindsight.

What I’m telling here is not new, we should just do it all more, share lively stories with the right people, share constructive opinions to people personally because they need it, not because they want it, but because it’s necessary.

Yesterday I finished the third book by Ernest Cline, the upcoming science fiction writer ‘famous’ from his dystopian but pleasant book on VR, Ready Player One. 

While there were other forces at play (a worldwide UFO attack, LOL), the book focuses on empathy (or sort of a meta empathy) to bring people together and create bridges in the most weird places. Ernest’s 3rd book Armada focuses strongly on empathy as the question and answer to everything.