Day 15: Anyone Interested In The Seasons of History Should Read This Blog Post

If you are at all interested in the cyclical seasons of history through a futurist lens, then you need to clear your calendar and read (or watch):

WHAT PAST GENERATIONS CAN TEACH US where Tony Robbins interviews Neil Howe, author of ‘The Fourth Turning’.

And here’s why:

• Past events over hundreds of years point to history running in 20–25 year cycles. A high, an awakening, an unraveling and a crisis.
• It shares the typical characteristics and roles that each generation will play, including those around us today. Gen Z have largely only lived in ‘crisis’ which sets them up to be the artists of the next awakening.
• In case you haven’t guessed already, we are approaching the end of the predicted ‘crisis’ cycle. In the past these have ended with wars which have acted as a large reset button for society but it doesn’t have to be a war. It’s often a non-obvious solution to the obvious problems around us (division, climate change, populism).
• I can see the ‘if you have a hammer then everything is a nail’ argument against the proof points that have been plucked from history but the pattern seems stronger to be than the argument against it.

Honestly, this blog post completely changed the way I think about the evolution of civilization and has me excited for what the next 20 years of awakening post-reset will bring.

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