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The Kale Doughnut

In: RESET Rethinking Our World and Creating a Different Future

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  • PHILIPP KRISTIAN DIEKHÖNER

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Asking for the right things and making good decisions truly is the origin of a great life. Our best life is something which may seem like a challenge to obtain, but it shouldn’t feel like an unsurmountable one. Much of the disconnect between who we are and who we could or should be is created by a want-focused society rendering itself in a perpetual state of deprivation. There is a natural limit to what we truly need, but there is no such limit to wants. But before you misread the practice of listening to your own needs as a form of restraint, it’s time to appreciate just how important constraints are to a life well-lived. My favourite way of illustrating this is by way of your personal dreams – say your dream future house…

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  • Philipp Kristian Diekhöner, 2021. "The Kale Doughnut," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: RESET Rethinking Our World and Creating a Different Future, chapter 12, pages 153-162, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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    Keywords

    Innovation; Future of Work; Future; Futurism; Trends; Transformation; Corporate Innovation; Digital Transformation; Trust Economy; Sharing Economy; Deep Technology; Future Economy; Startups; Digital Trust; Digital Economy; Digitisation;
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    • O3 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights
    • M1 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration
    • G34 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance
    • L2 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior
    • L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship

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