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Writer's pictureRichard Lipscombe

Your "old thinking" will hurt you in 2020


Newminimalism promotes *originality *discipline *creativity *loyalty *less fluff



Not a good strategy for life in our post-2020 world.

In this year of 2020 your "old thinking" will not deliver great outcomes for you [see photo].


Signs of change are everywhere but they are also under-reported. Netflix is now streamlining the content that use to be made and distributed by Hollywood. Twitter has been used by President Trump to destroy most of the "old thinking" in the mass media.


Old thinking about fracking in Britain has locked that nation into a continued dependence upon Middle East oil. Meanwhile "old thinking" [around the world] about nuclear power plants has people screaming about human extinction from Climate Change yet refusing to take direct action that will help us to solve the problem.


Old thinking is easy to spot because it is usually wrapped in a cloth of "fear and loathing". For example, Brexit demands "new thinking" from those who strive to continue centralised trade regimes yet "old thinking" propagates fear and loathing about the possible benefits of changes to world trade arrangements .


Old thinking projects a world war based on humans and materials [it is 2020 not 1917]. But.... New thinking is a war based on drones, cyber weapons, trade, self-organising networks, etc. The gap between those two ways of thinking is obvious and yet most folks do not see it.


If you are surrounded by "old thinking" [and it is highly likely that most of my loyal readers are in this situation] it is time to move on. In your workspace today you will see example after example after example of "old thinking" that will probably end with you sitting alone on a railway track waiting to be taken-out by the next train [see photo].


Richard


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