Gregg Braden argues that people learn at different rates, and this diversity protects society from collective error. He calls for kindness as we navigate our separate paths to understanding, especially during the pandemic's upheaval, framing it as a test of whether we can love ourselves and others enough to become our best selves.
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The beauty is we all learn differently, and we all learn at different rates. Not everyone arrives at the same understanding in the same moment in time. Fortunately, it's a good thing, because if we all thought the same and we all embraced the same belief on the same day in the same moment in time, and that was a wrong belief, we'd be in trouble. So the beauty of the diversity of our species is that we have different time horizons. We have different learning curves. And I think what we're learning is now to be kind to one another as we experience our individual learning curves and how we accept new ideas and new ways of living. And that's up for everybody right now. A lot of change going on. We've all been through hell these last at least the last year for some people, even extending before that. This is where we get to test what we believe. How kind can we be as we express our concerns, as we express our differences and points of view? Number one? Number two, it's about what we become. How do we live our lives? And ultimately, this is, I think, what the whole Covid experience is boiling down to. It's all about love. Do we love ourselves enough to live our lives in a way that allows us to be the best version of ourselves?