How Nature Remains the Truthful Teacher for Natural Human Success!

 

“As a natural species, our survival and success are governed by the processes of nature.  In other words, it’s how we set ourselves to fit into Earth’s natural ecosystem that determines how effective we can be to survive and thrive.  Understanding the nature of our interactions with other living things, and as well the natural environment of habitation, is key to getting us far.  As Lao Tzu put it, ‘a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step’, and that includes learning and studying the specifics of our interactions with nature.  The latter is a free and open university that is forever providing vital lessons on future preparedness.  Once we knew nothing much about earthquakes and tsunamis etc., until we studied earth’s geological processes, including plate tectonics, and now we have a better understanding of the causes and how to better prepare for future occurrences.  Surely, our most critical needs as a species that seek to thrive in the long term are hugely dependent on how nature unfolds over time and the effects therefrom.  Therefore, it seems wiser to pay more attention to what nature always teaches us, across the board, so we get ourselves better organised to do better in the future.”

 

How Nature Remains the Truthful Teacher for Natural Human Success!

 

The Reality of a Natural World

When it comes to the natural world, we are just one amongst an infinite number of natural occurrences, and there’s always some unimaginable possibilities that nature may bring into reality, which are beyond our control.  Take for example the advent of Covid-19, which took most by surprise, as we all looked forward to the dawn of a new and expectedly exciting 2020s decade.   The Covid_19 era, which was not at all the first calamity of such a magnitude, came around as a wake-up call to teach, or better still, remind us as humanity, lest we forget, that we live in a diverse natural world, inhabited by a vast array of other natural creations.  Although, as humans, we may think of ourselves as the dominant form of such creations, our intermittent battles against a plethora of nature-driven catastrophes are a clear sign that we are certainly not on top of the world.  The recent Covid-19 pandemic served as a reminder that our priorities at safe-guarding human life are not in the right order.

 

Besides Covid-19, there are many other natural acts such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, meteorite falls, as well as complex weather patterns giving rise to floods, drought, cyclones etc., and not forgetting other disease pandemics that include hiv/aids, malaria, tuberculosis etc.  All of this is a clear indication that the natural world is not only revolving around human life interests, even though we may consider these as obstacles blocking our advancement.  The truth is, this is just the nature of nature, which we are a part of, and we must learn to live with by crafting our niche.

 

Nature Rules but We Can Prepare to Mitigate

If we can appreciate the true nature of nature, then the right thing to do, in my view, would be to sort out our priorities and prefer first to figure out how we can safe-guard life against other elements of nature, like Covid-19.  In other words, if our priority has been more about, for example, just driving the economy to support our chosen lifestyles at the expense of ensuring that our boundaries with the other natural creations, and occurrences, are well understood and fortified, then this needs to urgently change.  As far as diseases and pandemics are concerned, I believe that Covid-19 came about to alert us, globally, on the need to shift priority from a seemingly skewed focus on building material economies of scale, to instead, scale-up our mental capacity in medical, and other related research, as well as preparedness to protect and save lives from any future such pandemics.

 

Human Development and Effectiveness Ought to Be Ever a Priority

Going forward, one would really prefer to see much of our economic gains, as humanity, not utilized in just scaling our materialistic lifestyles, as well as facilitating conflicts and war fares, but rather better utilized in human development, for self-improvement and better management, in different aspects of human life.  This way, I believe, could in the long run give us better quality in decision making and choices, across the board i.e. at the level of individuals, families, communities, politics etc.  Ultimately, when we can all reach a level to appreciate and understand the nature of our natural world, and how we constantly interact with the other natural creations, then it will be easier to find best practices through which we can all manage ourselves, as a species, for effective protection. 

 

Covid-19 Was an Expensive Push in The Right Direction

The still vivid outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic at the dawn of the 2020s decade, notably and ambiguously so, brought-in both bad and good into our human life experiences. The bad and expensive part of it saw many of us suffer through loss of lives of our loved ones, some of whom we couldn't travel to pay our last respects. Equally, and across the board, the pandemic disrupted and eroded livelihoods and lifestyles, leaving most in grief. The bad though acted as a catalyst to inspire a notable phase of creativity and innovation, amongst the general populace, which resulted in many solution-oriented initiatives, including the development of vaccines within unprecedented time periods. Such has given us, as humanity, the assurance that going forward we can rely on our human abilities, to truly manage any situations that come before us.  It remains to be seen though whether the many lessons learnt during the pandemic will be turned into life-long habits to guard against other likely future disasters. The greater task at hand, for us as humanity, is to learn from nature as much as is needed, in a way that helps create solutions to meet our current and imminent needs. What is without doubt though is the fact that everyone is powerfully gifted, albeit differently, but certainly in a way that can add value to life.

 

Heads Up and Learn from Nature!

Just as nature taught us that day and night will always return, so we can prepare for future endeavours, the same applies to all other natural acts.  Whether it’s about destructive cyclones, flash floods, drought spells, pandemics etc., nature teaches that there’ll always be many such occurrences in the future.  So, nature’s lessons aren’t optional.    

 

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 Do you want better in life? Have you any desires to accomplish and feel fulfilled in your experience of life?  If so, let’s go together and reach far!  Please share your views in the comments section if you can.  Long live to you!

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More About Dr. Benson Modie

The core mission of Dr. Benson Modie is to provide motivational education on personal development.  This is with the aim to inspire others to embrace the learning process, so they can develop and grow themselves to live a structured life that is anchored on personal strategic foundations, such as purpose, mission, and vision.  The ultimate goal is to foster a long-term, effective, and fulfilling experience of life.

 

Through his life project the Centre for Knowledge (CfK), extracted from a personal strategic plan, Dr. Benson Modie creates motivational content that is provided through presentations, seminars, and workshops at schools, work organisations, and public places.  In addition, Dr. Ben Modie also makes available educational content through books, social media, and blog posts.  

 

For more on Dr. Benson Modie you can get in touch through email at tesbnm@gmail.com or modieb@cfkmotivation.com.  Alternatively, you can search social media @Benson Modie.