George returned to The Next Frontier podcast with Bill Coppel, of First Clearing, LLC, on December 3 to speak about A Golden Civilization and the Map of Mindfulness. He and Bill discussed life planning, mindfulness, and the Golden Civilization Conversations.
Opening with a quote from E.O. Wilson, “Human beings have enough intelligence, goodwill, generosity, and enterprise to turn earth into a paradise by the end of the present century. The problem is that we seem unable to stabilize either economic policies or the means of governance higher than the size of a village,” Bill asks George to begin by discussing his expertise in economics, financial services, and mindfulness and how that, and this quote, inspired him to write A Golden Civilization.
Bill asks provoking questions about the life planning methodology and how the computerization of the financial services world has impacted the industry, George’s definition and convictions about freedom (such as freedom of self, of markets, and of the press) and how it should be democratized, the Golden Civilization Conversations, and mindfulness as a methodology to master the present moment, where freedom is found.
In their discussion of the Golden Civilization Conversations that have occurred, primarily with George’s financial life planning community, George uses one of his Three Questions to support his belief that life planning is already predisposed toward an application to civilization by citing a client’s answer to the question “What you regret most about your life if you found out that you would die tomorrow?" As a whole, clients, generally refer to values such as family, creativity spirit, community, and planet, not the financial details that would bring them to a financial advisor in the first place.
Bill and George close with a discussion of their shared belief in mindfulness practice and its value in the financial services world and the betterment of an individual’s life. Bill mentions that he too, starts all of his presentations with a mindfulness exercise. They are both in support of a life purposefully spent living in the present moment.
You can find Episodes of the The Next Frontier wherever you listen to podcasts, or at https://www.firstclearing.com/content/podcast-full/george-kinder-golden-civilization-conversation/
George is featured on Episode 41: George Kinder: Golden Civilization Conversations.
Listen to George’s first episode of The Next Frontier podcast here: https://www.firstclearing.com/content/podcast-full/lighting-the-torch-recognizing-freedom-in-your-life-vision/