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How Modern Life Erodes Our Capacity for Long-Term Commitment

My grandfather planted oak trees he knew he would never see mature and I cannot commit to a gym membership longer than three months.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The acceleration of contemporary culture may be systematically undermining the psychological muscles needed for generational thinking.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Intergenerational thinking — 7th generation perspective?”

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