Planet does not need successful people

success - this is not something that is stremitsya.Ekolog and writer David Orr in one of his books suggested, which has long haunted version of Website < /: «Planet does not need a large number of" successful people ". The planet desperately needs peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and love. It needs people, next to which is good to live. The planet needs people with morality, who are willing to join in the fight to make the world a safe and humane. And these qualities have little to do with the "success", as defined in our society ».

Of course, you may speculate that Orr - representative of Western culture
In 2013, the Russian Public Opinion Research Center conducted a study which revealed that mean for the modern concept of the Russians' success. " Most respondents linked to the success of the material well-being. 26% of respondents considered a successful one who has achieved all in life, and 26% - living in prosperity, but for the 10% criterion for success was a good job. Of course, there were those who said that successful children grow well, to create a strong family, a decent and good man, but such answers were much smaller.

And have to admit that we ourselves already firmly inscribed in the Western system of values ​​
It is neither bad nor good. The problem is that it defines our way of being in a small and cozy, but cramped and burdened by various challenges the world.

Let's think for a moment, the representatives of which professions we call "successful»
This is where the paradox arises, which initially said David Orr: turns out that the planet revolves not at the expense of those whom we amicably dubbed the "successful" and hoisted on the podium
The most interesting thing is not the point.
The current model of success and happiness rule out, in principle, is unhealthy.
It is clear that psychopathic model of success is simply obliged to be destructive. Maybe the world is why so many wars, bloodshed, endless economic crises - we just put on a "successful" psychopaths, piously trusting in their normal and trying his best to be like them
The world of "successful" people are extremely lonely
Perhaps it is time to reconsider our idea of ​​success?
And then - an amazing deal! - We do not notice how successful people become much more. They will be just as much, and happy, to understand that they are not in vain live in this world. And these people have will need the planet, because they will have no reason to destroy it. Finally, we will deal creation.


Svetlana Gorbunova,
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