If you ask what are the 3 most important things human beings need to have to survive, you will likely get the 3 answers you also imagine. They are probably necessary, but are they sufficient? Let's look at the problem from a different perspective and get some interesting surprises.

1. THE 3 THINGS HUMAN BEINGS NEED
TO SURVIVE
TO THE NEXT 100 YEARS CHALLENGES
#FutureOf
Massimo Cardaci – 20.10.2013

2. If you ask people what are the
3 factors
allowing Human Beings to survive
to the next 100 years’ challenges, the
responses will aggregate around 3 themes

3. (1)
FOOD and WATER

4. Yes
Food and water are a primary biological need
for life survival

5. But…
There are many people dying for having too much
food…
There are many people suicide even if they have
sufficient food…
There are many people surviving with insufficient
food.

6. (2)
WORLD PEACE

7. Of course
If we have a global nuclear war…

8. But…
The history of human beings shows that there were
always wars (big and small) and some people
always survived…
There are a lot of people in peaceful countries
killed by a fight with the neigh borough…

9. (3)
MEDICINES

10. Naturally
Medicines increase
human beings’ capability
to survive to old and new diseases

11. But…
Still the history of human beings shows that there
were always new diseases for which there was not
a cure and human beings always found ways to
survive…
Absence of food and water kills more than medical
diseases.

12. All these are for sure useful.
Probably necessary.
But are they sufficient?

13. So, what do we really need?

14. (1)
RESILIENCY

15. “Resiliency” is not “Resistance”
and is not
“Strength of will”

16. Resistance
is what allows to say:
“I will break, but I will never bend!”

17. Strength of will
is what allows:
waking up regularly at 5am to go running to
stay fit, or
to stop smoking, or
working 14 hours per day to get a reward or
promotion.

18. Resilience
is what allows
to absorb the hits of the life and restart;
to bend under these hits, but then to stand again;
to feel the energetic pressure of the many
“no”, humiliations, injustices, life and medical
issues, and then, against any logic and sometimes
human comprehension, to start again.

19. (2)
NETWORKING

20. Each resilient human being is like a drop of
water.
S/He is powerful, but his resiliency has a
limit: a big fire may vaporize the water drop

21. But if you join enough drops,
you have an ocean,
and even the strongest fire
will not have a chance.

22. That’s Networking:
building a worldwide net
of resilient drops
across national, cultural, gender and age
borders

23. (3)
TIME MANAGEMENT

24. To be resilient,
we must ensure we have time…
to recover from life hits
to control and re-set our list of values
to build, feed and grow the network with
other resilient drops, starting from your own
family

25. Time is the only good that has not a price:
you cannot buy it
Everyone knows it’s precious, but we always
waste it
and it does not return

26. Concrete and effective
Time Management
applied to
our whole life
is really required to support Resiliency.

27. THANK YOU!
More about me:
LinkedIn Profile: Massimo Cardaci [English]
Volunteer activities:
Handicap: www.orsaminore.org [English/Italian]
Ethical Economy: www.edc-consulting.org [Italian]
Time Management: www.time-management.it [Italian]
Some Publications: www.lulu.com/spotlight/maxcardaci
Book on Time Management: “Would you change 25 minutes?” [Italian]
Books on History of Science: “Spots on the Sun? Are you joking, right?” [Italian]