The Leading Life Science Podcast
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The Leading Life Science Podcast
S3. Ep002 Some thoughts on Cycles of Nature, Life and Business
Transcript:
I was really lucky to find this Roe deer antler in my garden before Christmas and it’s got me thinking ever since about cycles.
Everything in nature happens in cycles!
Everything in the UNIVERSE happens in cycles
Bucks shed their antlers every year. Which may seem like a rather shocking loss to us but every year they grow back stronger. For this reason, in Celtic culture deer are revered as symbols of regeneration and renewal, as well as classic symbols of strength and leadership.
Everything happens in cycles.
Energy flows from one organism to another. From the earth into plants, into animals and into other animals, ultimately ending up back in the earth. One organism consumes another but the energy is never lost, it just transfers from one form to another.
In winter all the plants appear to die down, but they are simply resting and germinating under the soil ready to blossom in the spring and summer.
So it stands to reason that everything in human psychology, behaviour and subsequent socio economic outcomes also works in cycles.
The 2008 crash happened because people forgot the reason why banks were careful about lending. Vaccines sceptics arose because our generation are lucky not to remember polio and smallpox. Wars restart because we haven’t learned the lessons of the past.
But cycles also give us a chance to review our processes. There is a place for evaluating what is truly no longer serving us. What processes have got so convoluted that they are doing more harm than good.
Even drug classes work in cycles. Psychedelics showed promise in the 50s, were debunked in the 60s but now they’re back. Thalidomide of all things! Got a terrible wrap because awful events happened. But later was successfully developed in treatments for leprosy and even cancer. I think that’s a very good example of where we can succeed in looking at something from a different perspective but absolutely not forgetting why we put safeguards in place.
And money, like energy, never disappears, it is just going to different places.
When I did my mental health first aid training, I was taught that if you are speaking to someone in crisis, you should remind them that whatever they are going through is temporary and they will feel better again soon.
The world may be going through a whole lot of change right now, but thank goodness in some places we are seeing some green shoots of peace.
I’m hopeful that this year will be better for everyone. What do you think?
