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  • - Longpath is a mindset that allows us

  • to be future-conscious,

  • which means we push back short-termism.

  • We think about the ramifications

  • of our day-to-day actions

  • and the impact they will have on future generations.

  • What that does is it not only helps us develop new ways

  • of being that help us in the here and now,

  • but it also pushes back the despair

  • that we all feel in the intertidal moment.

  • Cause more often than not what happens is

  • we react very quickly

  • And what the reaction is gonna do

  • is give us a kind of short-term answer

  • 'cause that's what we want.

  • We can only cognitively take on so much at one point in time

  • and then we wanna get things off of our plate.

  • We have that drive-it's a heuristic.

  • We don't, more often than not, wanna deal

  • with doing something that will be seen

  • as a sacrifice for the longer term.

  • Everything from walking downstairs and saying,

  • "Oh my God, I'm hungry right now.

  • I could make a really healthy meal

  • or I could have that pint of ice cream."

  • Right? That's at the most basic level.

  • Or the other thing has been in romantic relationships

  • where I'm like, "Well, I don't know

  • if this is necessarily the one for me,

  • but we do have this amazing trip

  • planned two weeks from now."

  • What Long Path is asking us to do is

  • to take a pause and say,

  • "Is that the right thing to do given where we are right now

  • as an individual or a society?"

  • So for people who are too busy surviving,

  • just take a second and pause.

  • Though even if you are living paycheck to paycheck

  • and you are on the margins, how you act and behave matters.

  • You are still impacting future generations

  • and those around you.

  • It may not be as grandiose and as amazing

  • if someone has 50 million followers on Instagram

  • and they're living and acting Longpath.

  • They're gonna have a different influence

  • than someone's living paycheck to paycheck.

  • So that is correct.

  • Longpath can be privileging in that way,

  • but it doesn't necessarily mean

  • that those who are living paycheck to paycheck

  • or on the margins can't be thinking

  • and acting in a way that doesn't uphold a certain value set

  • that makes the world better.

  • If we look at actually where we are as a planet,

  • who's actually causing the most damage to the climate,

  • it actually is those that are most privileged.

  • Those of us who are at a place of privilege

  • are more often than not willing to take the shortcut

  • because the incentives are there that allow us,

  • not just the knowledge to get away with it,

  • but it doesn't impact us as much

  • because there's always something to kind of take its place.

  • So what we have to do is realize that even though shortcuts

  • have an additive effect in the same way

  • there's an additive effect of being a great human over time,

  • taking the short path over and over again

  • also has a negative additive effect.

  • There's a time and a place for short-termism.

  • The question is how do we quell that desire

  • and the probabilities that we'll do it more,

  • so we can do more kind of long-term thinking and acting?

  • It's on all of us to actually act

  • in such a way where we see ourselves

  • with all kind of having our hands

  • on that much larger steering wheel.

  • Those with privilege

  • have to actually enact Longpath even more so,

  • but it doesn't mean that anyone can't do it

  • in one small way, shape, or form in their own life.

- Longpath is a mindset that allows us

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