Feeling our way into '23

And the importance of noticing the slightly ridiculous

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Here we are, my final reflection for 2022 before leaving it behind and stepping into 2023. I’ve had a month of reviewing impressions of the year and reaching the conclusion that I should step into ‘23 with five themes in mind; Attention, Connection, Capacity, Authority and Performance, all wrapped up in an idea of Coherence. It feels like a good place from which to set off.

Reflecting though is only a beginning. To be valuable reflections need to instigate changes that improve lives; our own, and those around us.

All real progress in social science has been rooted in the courage to say things that are, in the final analysis, slightly ridiculous.

Graeber, David; Wengrow, David. The Dawn of Everything (p. 21).

We have witnessed epochal triggers this year, from conflict to pursuing capitalist dogma that fails any reasonable test of humanity to the shameful failures of leadership that have permitted and enabled it. I think saying slightly ridiculous things …