It’s not only that our metrics of success are qualitatively incomplete; the ladders we seek to climb are leaning up against the wrong things
‘Friendship, compassion, empathy, joy, music, humour, beauty, humility … to name a few. These are the things that add flourishing to mere sustenance.’‘Friendship, compassion, empathy, joy, music, humour, beauty, humility … to name a few. These are the things that add flourishing to mere sustenance.
Political change brings together our hunger for novelty and our search for something better. We instinctively look to governments to solve our problems and deliver a better future. Then the next election comes along and we have the same debates, the same divisions and – with relentless futility – the same hopes. It seems that the late journalistWhy the perpetual cycle of hope and disappointment? Perhaps part of the problem is incomplete metrics of success.Material outcomes are important, but it’s self-evident that there’s more to life than statistics can measure.
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