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<span style="color:black">Been out of the SPN loop for a few years, although I was part of it in the beginning.</span></p>
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<span style="color:black">This article, published a few days ago, is mostly on mindset barriers to big sustainability change, although it gets into other things about social change. It includes, but goes way beyond, business. It was heavily influenced by decades
following/prodding the sustainable business field.</span></p>
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<span style="color:black">It looks at why big changes are so hard. While certainly there are many well-known obstacles, such as resistance from those fighting them, apathy, inertia, etc., this one, I think, is unexpected.
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<span style="color:black">These are t<span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">he way we see things, unexamined assumptions we make, cognitive biases. We do these to ourselves. We cannot blame an external villain for them.</span></span></p>
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<span style="color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">I think they are actually pervasive (came up with 101 of them), and held even by those who are trying to make positive changes. Among other things, if I'm right, they are getting in the way
of needed conversations, innovations, actions.</span></p>
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<span style="color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">In it I try to learn from failures, so, among other things, the next generation is better prepped about this “enemy,” and perhaps can come up with new ways to address it. (If so, hope they
tell me!)</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in; background:white">Here it is:</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; padding:0in; border:1pt none windowtext; font-size:12pt; color:black">Regards, and I hope as much as possible, everyone is finding coping mechanisms that are working for you,</span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; color:black"></span></p>
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