The Mindful Revolution

AI & Human Potential — Technology is evolving faster than we are.

Human­i­ty has always used tech­nol­o­gy to extend its capa­bil­i­ties. Today, AI is begin­ning to extend some­thing fun­da­men­tal: our abil­i­ty to think, cre­ate and decide. But tech­no­log­i­cal progress alone does­n’t make us bet­ter humans. The more pow­er­ful our tools become, the more impor­tant it is to devel­op the human being using them.

Mindfulness is part of that evolution.

It helps us cre­ate space between stim­u­lus and response—to observe, choose and act con­scious­ly. This mat­ters in a world increas­ing­ly shaped by algo­rithms, AI and automation. 

Because the ques­tion is no longer only:

What can tech­nol­o­gy do?

It is:

What kind of humans do we need to become to use it wisely?


AI | Longevity | Human Potential

Today, I’m explor­ing these ques­tions at the inter­sec­tion of AI, longevi­ty, entre­pre­neur­ship and human poten­tial.

  • AI can aug­ment cognition.
  • Biotech­nol­o­gy can trans­form biology.
  • Longevi­ty sci­ence can extend healthspan.

But tech­nol­o­gy is only part of the equation.

We also need to devel­op our­selves: The future belongs not sim­ply to peo­ple with more pow­er­ful tech­nol­o­gy, but to peo­ple who can use it with greater aware­ness, agency and purpose.


The Mindful Revolution

An early chap­ter in my explo­ration of human potential.

The next rev­o­lu­tion isn’t technological.

It’s human.

That’s the idea behind The Mind­ful Rev­o­lu­tion—and much of what I explore today

More capable technology.
More capable humans.

Create your reality.


The Mind­ful Rev­o­lu­tion is avail­able as an eBook for Kin­dle Read­er and Kin­dle apps as well as in a paper­back ver­sion.

There also is a Ger­man ver­sion of The Mind­ful Rev­o­lu­tion, titled Die Acht­same Rev­o­lu­tion. It’s also avail­able as an eBook for Kin­dle as well as in a paper­back ver­sion. The suc­cess of The Mind­ful Rev­o­lu­tion depends on book reviews! Can you help?

GOOD READS

The Mind­ful Rev­o­lu­tion, Michael Reuter

Die Acht­same Rev­o­lu­tion, Michael Reuter

What‘s our prob­lem?, Tim Urban

Rebel Ideas — The Power of Diverse Think­ing, Matthew Syed

Die Macht unser­er Gene, Daniel Wallerstorfer

Jel­ly­fish Age Back­wards, Nick­las Brendborg

The Expec­ta­tion Effect, David Robson

Breathe, James Nestor

The Idea of the Brain, Matthew Cobb

The Great Men­tal Mod­els I, Shane Parrish

Sim­ple Rules, Don­ald Sull, Kath­leen M. Eisenhardt

Mit Igno­ran­ten sprechen, Peter Modler

The Secret Lan­guage of Cells, Jon Lieff

Evo­lu­tion of Desire: A Life of René Girard, Cyn­thia L. Haven

Grasp: The Sci­ence Trans­form­ing How We Learn, San­jay Sara

Rewire Your Brain , John B. Arden

The Wim Hof Method, Wim Hof

The Way of the Ice­man, Koen de Jong

Soft Wired — How The New Sci­ence of Brain Plas­tic­i­ty Can Change Your Life, Michael Merzenich

The Brain That Changes Itself, Nor­man Doidge

Lifes­pan, David Sinclair

Out­live — The Sci­ence and Art of Longevi­ty, Peter Attia

Younger You — Reduce Your Bioage And Live Longer, Kara N. Fitzgerald

What Does­n’t Kill Us, Scott Carney

Suc­cess­ful Aging, Daniel Levithin

Der Ernährungskom­pass, Bas Kast

The Way We Eat Now, Bee Wilson

Dein Gehirn weiss mehr als Du denkst, Niels Birbaumer

Denken: Wie das Gehirn Bewusst­sein schafft, Stanis­las Dehaene

Mind­ful­ness, Ellen J. Langer

100 Plus: How The Com­ing Age of Longevi­ty Will Change Every­thing, Sonia Arrison

Think­ing Like A Plant, Craig Holdredge

Das Geheime Wis­sen unser­er Zellen, Son­dra Barret

The Code of the Extra­or­di­nary Mind, Vishen Lakhiani

Altered Traits, Daniel Cole­man, Richard Davidson

The Brain’s Way Of Heal­ing, Nor­man Doidge

The Last Best Cure, Donna Jack­son Nakazawa

The Inner Game of Ten­nis, W. Tim­o­thy Gallway

Run­ning Lean, Ash Maurya

Sleep — Schlafen wie die Profis, Nick Littlehales

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