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"Resilience is learned. Not just taught" - Futurist Jim Carroll
Lessons from my family: It's all about attitude management, proactive anticipation, courage restoration, resourcefulness, decisive action, agile thinking, maintaining optimism, and reframing trends as opportunities rather than threats.
I have so much to learn from my sons and daughters-in-law!
I'm reflecting on this today as the youngest of my two sons turns 30. Here's on the far right in the photo.
While I spend a lot of time on a lot of stages speaking about resilience, I've had the opportunity to witness the development of resilience firsthand with the evolution of their careers and lives.
Each of them has faced some type of significant career challenge at some point in their lives. Rather than giving into despair, I've watched as they've nurtured themselves with hope, determination, and action. The spirit they've shown through these times has taught me something about myself and has offered me lessons on how I too can nurture my spirit of resilience.
Here's what I've seen - as their careers underwent the typical - and sometimes untypical - twists and turns of life, they never gave up. They never gave in. They fought back. In doing so, they become the fountain of wisdom that has helped to nurture my soul, feed my optimism, and fuel my determination. When I talk about resilience in my keynotes, I often draw from global business examples.
But today, I want to share something more personal - how my sons and daughters-in-law have embodied the resilience principles I've advocated for years.
Here's what I've learned.
**#Resilience** **#Action** **#Attitude** **#Growth** **#Perseverance** **#Family** **#Learning** **#Adaptation** **#Opportunity** **#Determination**
Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/04/decoding-tomorrow-your-daily-future-inspiration-resilience-is-learned-not-just-taught/
https://www.europesays.com/1960329/ New venture expands market presence in Spain and Portugal Labmate Online #companyrsquos #customer #customers #growth #iberia #local #market #noticias #office #portugal #scientific #verder
"What the two of them so effusively believe about growth is more or less what I think about redistribution. Which is to say: when you redistribute wealth, you in fact hasten a present that is radically different from the one we currently know.
In an unequal society where the majority must invest the lion’s share of their time and energy into the labour required to obtain the bare necessities of life, individuals lose much in the way of personal freedom and life satisfaction. But we also collectively sacrifice unfathomable quantities of human creativity and potential. There might be abundant growth, but that can matter very little if its fruits aren’t broadly shared.
Redistribution does not equal, as Klein and Thompson assert, a mere “parceling out of the present.” In a very difference sense than theirs, it represents its own agenda of abundance — one reflecting the richest egalitarian ideas of the 19th and 20th centuries. The liberalism of the 21st might reject those ideas, but many of us on the left still see them as indispensable. Socialism, contrary to what many of its critics have historically claimed, is first and foremost concerned with human freedom: freedom to think, freedom to dream, freedom to create, freedom to live unburdened by toil
(...)
Klein and Thompson appear to believe distributional questions can be mostly elided if enough new technology is invented and a sufficient quantity of stuff is built and produced. Contentious debates about degrowth aside, I find this assertion vastly more improbable and utopian than the project of universal social welfare or the realization of social and economic rights. Scientific and technological innovations can be hugely beneficial, but until we live in the world of Star Trek: The Next Generation it’s unlikely they will ever compensate for the dearth of social and economic justice."
''..an assumption ...shrink the government, that the private sector will grow as a result... In fact, the evidence for that being true is about as strong as the evidence for trickle-down economics. And trickle-down economics has never happened in the history of humankind. The wealthy do not share their well-being with those who are poor, nor does their money flow down to them. "
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03/28/why-is-rachel-reeves-obsessed-with-growth/
#growth #economics #UKgovernment
One thing that may happen as you grow and step into your authenticity is that your current relationships may feel unsatisfying.
You may now crave a different dynamic and wish for different needs to be met (or the same needs to be met in a different/better way).
You don't have to end relationships with people who are in your life, but you may consider renegotiating the terms. Whether or not they are on board with that will remain to be seen.
"The #government has launched an “action plan to cut #redtape and kickstart #growth”. There is much to applaud, but a sophisticated #publicdebate on #regulation remains elusive, says Matthew Gill"
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/governments-regulation-pro-growth
#governmentpolicy
#UKpol
#LabourGovernment
#strategicthinking
#longtermgrowth
#longtermgoals
#civilservice
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https://www.europesays.com/1940838/ UK chancellor will double down despite growing opposition – POLITICO #BritishPolitics #Budget #debt #EconomicGovernance #EconomicPerformance #FiscalMeasures #germany #GreatBritain #growth #Inflation #InterestRates #KeirStarmer #RachelReeves #stability #Tax #UkBudget #UnitedKingdom #welfare
Rearmament is an opportunity for capital to obtain reductions in welfare and public services, at the cost of lower profitability.
Chatham House: “Politicians will have to brace themselves to reclaim money through cuts to sickness benefits, pensions and healthcare.”
Britain’s finance minister Rachel Reeves, who has been steadily cutting spending on child credits, winter payments for the aged and disability benefits, announced that the remit of the Labour government’s new National Wealth Fund would be changed to let it invest in defence.
More military spending spurs growth but can damage the ‘health’ of the capitalist accumulation process: https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/03/22/from-welfare-to-warfare-military-keynesianism/
Chris Riddell on #stagflation rearing its ugly head before Rachel Reeves’ #SpringStatement – cartoon in The Observer, 23rd March 2025.
Hopes of #growth hang deflated, borrowing takes its toll, and spending cuts loom...
https://www.europesays.com/1929959/ How to get the money for Europe’s defense – POLITICO #Budget #ClimateChange #debt #DefenseBudgets #DonaldTrump #EmmanuelMacron #EnergyPrices #EUBudget #EU27 #europe #FriedrichMerz #growth #innovation #LowCarbonTechnologies #NetZero #NetZeroEmissions #pensions #policy #Tax #welfare