If you aren’t already a producer, you will be.

It’s where your life is headed: Humans just have to produce things.

It’s why I’m more convinced how going to the future to have a peek at who we can be and what we can do is a really healthy habit – because continuing to look at the past doesn’t help us much at all:

‘You cannot look at [your] future
by naive projection of the past.’*

Social psychologist Erich Fromm describes the immature child as needing to live through possessive stages – she is unable to take care of herself, ** but in a healthy life these are left behind as she grows into maturity.

Then something amazing happens: discovering she is a generative being in unique ways, she is able to make, to produce, to create … and to be generous.^

When we listen to the whispers from our future, we see a world of abundance rather than scarcity, and then add to this from others see as the most unlikely materials.  I realise I’m echoing what I’ve previously explored as makers of fire: there is fuel all around (artefacts others and we have made , including ideas and thoughts), and oxygen (the world views, perspectives, stories, and paradigms of our time), and you add heat.  You are a producer of fire.

‘Encourage everyone to use coloured pens
(NOT ballpoint) for ALL writing and notetaking.  
(They will think differently. …)’^^

(*This line from Nassim Taleb reads: ‘You cannot look at the future by naive projection of the past.’  I thought changing one word still held true.)
(**’It is forced either to receive, to snatch, or to possess because it cannot yet produce.  Thus, the category of having is a necessary transitional stage in the child’s’ development.’  This Fromm describes as possessive having: something we grow out of as we mature .)
(^Generative and generous share the same root.)
(^^I often use coloured pens so I had to include this idea from McNair Wilson.  Who knows, it might just change something today.)