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Achieving Sustainability
Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Abstract
Although all the symptoms of lack-of-sustainability are physical, the cause is a mindset that needs to be changed. The mindset includes an addictive lock on wanting materialistic solutions to all problems, most of which are not materialistic, but are existential problems about meaningfulness in life. Meaningfulness is an inner understanding about life that is only achieved by insightful reflective thought. This kind of growth is enabled by the right kind of caring leadership that enables people to realise and properly establish their existential relationship with Nature.
KeywordsSustainabilityFlow of QiTree of LifeMindsetConceptual ShiftAchievement MotivationReflective WisdomSymbiotic Relationships
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