revealing the truth about human nature
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Our true, but lost, essence. Here is who we really are as humans; but historically overlooked and virtually abandoned. Penetrating and revealing, this compendium of insights on human nature is intended to return us to the proper understanding of our creative essence. The twin purpose of this presentation is, first, to reveal the truth about human nature; and, second, to make this truth accessible to the general public. Here, finally, is the authentic understanding of human nature that everyone is going to love, cherish, and treasure for the rest of his or her life.TRANSCRIPT
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“Each of us has a piece of the puzzle of solving the great world problems of our time and creating a more just, humane, and beautiful world. …
“If everyone who loved to create beauty did so, we would live in a beautiful world.
“If everyone who loved cleanliness and order, cleaned up, we would live in a clean and orderly world.
“If everyone who yearned to heal the sick did so, we would live in a healthier world.
“If everyone who cared about world hunger shared his creative ideas and acted to alleviate the problem, people would all be fed.”
--Carol Pearson
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“The more we understand our true nature as humans and our place in the harmony of nature, the more socially and ecologically responsible we are likely to become. Ipso facto, the more socially and ecologically responsible we are, the less acquisitive, the less consumption-driven, and the less adversarial we are likely to be. Of course, the less consumption-driven and the less adversarial we are, the better for a finite Planet Earth and for posterity.”
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“To be human means to be creative.” --Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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“Since everybody uses ideas, creativity is everybody’s business.” --Edward de Bono
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“Let each become all that he was created capable of being.” — Aristotle
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“All of history supports the observation that the desire to create is a fundamental urge in humankind.”
— Willis Harman and
John Hormann
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“Creative talent
is a widely
distributed gift
… an ability
that need not
wane with age.” --Alex F. Osborn
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“By tapping his full measure of creative intelligence, an individual may begin to reflect humanity’s highest ideas in his life. ... Such individual development offers the key to solving modern man’s social problems.” — Harold H. Bloomfield
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Efiong Etuk, Ph.D.
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“There is increasing
scientific evidence
that man’s physical
and psychological
health are profoundly
affected by the degree
to which he has found
meaning, direction,
and purpose in his
existence.”
--Sidney M. Jourard
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Efiong Etuk, Ph.D.
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“True happiness involves the full use of one’s powers and talents.” -- John W. Gardner
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Efiong Etuk, Ph.D.
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“Your suppressed potentialities will make you miserable.” --Bertrand Russell
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Efiong Etuk, Ph.D.
It is highly important, indeed
urgently so, that we consider
the possibility that our
traditional ideas concerning
the innate nature of man may
be wrong and damaging,
for I am convinced that
underlying much of man’s
malfunctioning is this
unsound conception of
human nature.
--Ashley Montagu
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“For the person
with creative
potential, there
is no wholeness
except in using
it.” --Robert K. Greenleaf
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Efiong Etuk, Ph.D.
It is highly important, indeed
urgently so, that we consider
the possibility that our
traditional ideas concerning
the innate nature of man may
be wrong and damaging,
for I am convinced that
underlying much of man’s
malfunctioning is this
unsound conception of
human nature.
--Ashley Montagu
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“It is not human nature we should accuse, but the … conventions that pervert it.” --Denis Diderot
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Efiong Etuk, Ph.D.
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“If we are to break habit-sets and move into new, original ways of viewing our problems and challenges, we must find ways to break old mental associations or connections and form new ones.” --Sidney J. Parnes
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Efiong Etuk, Ph.D.
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“Any group, organization, community, or society which inhibits the free movement of ideas of its members up, down, and across its organizational and social structures (whether innocently or not) is depriving itself of its greatest resource – human thought – and is in grave danger of being buried in history by an avalanche of the creativity of others.” --Richard J. Spady
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Efiong Etuk, Ph.D.
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“Creating the Future is everyone’s business because everyone is going to live there.” --August Thayer Jaccaci
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Efiong Etuk, Ph.D.
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“We are suffering
from a
metaphysical
disease, and the
cure must
therefore be
metaphysical.” --E. F. Schumacher
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Efiong Etuk, Ph.D.
It is highly important, indeed
urgently so, that we consider
the possibility that our
traditional ideas concerning
the innate nature of man may
be wrong and damaging,
for I am convinced that
underlying much of man’s
malfunctioning is this
unsound conception of
human nature.
--Ashley Montagu
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“If we make radical changes in our beliefs about human capacity, we can break through to a new way of life.” --Doris J. Shallcross
and Dorothy A. Sisk
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“The ultimate disease of our time is valuelessness ... rootlessness, emptiness, helplessness, the lack of something to believe in and to be devoted to. … No psychological health is possible unless [the] essential core of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.” --Abraham H. Maslow
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“The greatest loss in the world is loss of human potential.” --Leo Buscaglia
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Efiong Etuk, Ph.D.
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“It is an indignity for any human being not to be allowed to live up to his or her full potential.” --Hazel Henderson
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Efiong Etuk, Ph.D.
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“It is essential that
organizations evolve
to be in greater
harmony with
human nature and
with the natural
world.” --Society
for
Organizational Learning
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Efiong Etuk, Ph.D.
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“We shall require
a substantially
new manner of
thinking if
mankind is to
survive.”
– Albert Einstein
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Efiong Etuk, Ph.D.
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“… so that we may exist more fully and realize more of our human potential.” -- Henry David Thoreau
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Efiong Etuk, Ph.D.
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Efiong Etuk, Ph.D.
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Efiong Etuk, Ph.D.
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Efiong Etuk, Ph.D.
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“If, as is generally
conceded, the world is in a
rather sorry mess, crying
for solutions to problems
that are staggering in
complexity and magnitude,
the encouragement of
creative thinking would
seem to be the most
necessary and immediate
goal of all concerned
people.” – George R. Eckstein
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“If, as is generally
conceded, the world is in a
rather sorry mess, crying
for solutions to problems
that are staggering in
complexity and magnitude,
the encouragement of
creative thinking would
seem to be the most
necessary and immediate
goal of all concerned
people.” – George R. Eckstein
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“If, as is generally
conceded, the world is in a
rather sorry mess, crying
for solutions to problems
that are staggering in
complexity and magnitude,
the encouragement of
creative thinking would
seem to be the most
necessary and immediate
goal of all concerned
people.” – George R. Eckstein
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“If, as is generally
conceded, the world is in a
rather sorry mess, crying
for solutions to problems
that are staggering in
complexity and magnitude,
the encouragement of
creative thinking would
seem to be the most
necessary and immediate
goal of all concerned
people.” – George R. Eckstein
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“If, as is generally
conceded, the world is in a
rather sorry mess, crying
for solutions to problems
that are staggering in
complexity and magnitude,
the encouragement of
creative thinking would
seem to be the most
necessary and immediate
goal of all concerned
people.” – George R. Eckstein
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“If, as is generally
conceded, the world is in a
rather sorry mess, crying
for solutions to problems
that are staggering in
complexity and magnitude,
the encouragement of
creative thinking would
seem to be the most
necessary and immediate
goal of all concerned
people.” – George R. Eckstein
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“If, as is generally
conceded, the world is in a
rather sorry mess, crying
for solutions to problems
that are staggering in
complexity and magnitude,
the encouragement of
creative thinking would
seem to be the most
necessary and immediate
goal of all concerned
people.” – George R. Eckstein
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Efiong Etuk, Ph.D.
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Efiong Etuk, Ph.D.
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Efiong Etuk, Ph.D.
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“If, as is generally
conceded, the world is in a
rather sorry mess, crying
for solutions to problems
that are staggering in
complexity and magnitude,
the encouragement of
creative thinking would
seem to be the most
necessary and immediate
goal of all concerned
people.” – George R. Eckstein
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“If, as is generally
conceded, the world is in a
rather sorry mess, crying
for solutions to problems
that are staggering in
complexity and magnitude,
the encouragement of
creative thinking would
seem to be the most
necessary and immediate
goal of all concerned
people.” – George R. Eckstein
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“If, as is generally
conceded, the world is in a
rather sorry mess, crying
for solutions to problems
that are staggering in
complexity and magnitude,
the encouragement of
creative thinking would
seem to be the most
necessary and immediate
goal of all concerned
people.” – George R. Eckstein
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“If, as is generally
conceded, the world is in a
rather sorry mess, crying
for solutions to problems
that are staggering in
complexity and magnitude,
the encouragement of
creative thinking would
seem to be the most
necessary and immediate
goal of all concerned
people.” – George R. Eckstein
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“If, as is generally
conceded, the world is in a
rather sorry mess, crying
for solutions to problems
that are staggering in
complexity and magnitude,
the encouragement of
creative thinking would
seem to be the most
necessary and immediate
goal of all concerned
people.” – George R. Eckstein
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“If, as is generally
conceded, the world is in a
rather sorry mess, crying
for solutions to problems
that are staggering in
complexity and magnitude,
the encouragement of
creative thinking would
seem to be the most
necessary and immediate
goal of all concerned
people.” – George R. Eckstein
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“If, as is generally
conceded, the world is in a
rather sorry mess, crying
for solutions to problems
that are staggering in
complexity and magnitude,
the encouragement of
creative thinking would
seem to be the most
necessary and immediate
goal of all concerned
people.” – George R. Eckstein
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“If, as is generally
conceded, the world is in a
rather sorry mess, crying
for solutions to problems
that are staggering in
complexity and magnitude,
the encouragement of
creative thinking would
seem to be the most
necessary and immediate
goal of all concerned
people.” – George R. Eckstein
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Efiong Etuk, Ph.D.
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Efiong Etuk, Ph.D.
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“There are no
passengers on
spaceship Earth.
We are all
crew.” – Marshall McLuhan
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