{"id":10902,"date":"2014-03-12T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T17:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=10902"},"modified":"2014-03-12T09:00:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T17:00:42","slug":"from-the-febmarch-zephyr-contemplation-solitude-and-hyper-focusing-a-theory-by-scott-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/from-the-febmarch-zephyr-contemplation-solitude-and-hyper-focusing-a-theory-by-scott-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the Feb\/March Zephyr) Contemplation, Solitude, and Hyper-focusing: A Theory\u2026 By Scott Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maybe as a culture we have it all backwards. We assume that a hyper-growth economy that gives people what they desire \u2013 we should say what it can cause them to desire \u2013 will ipso facto result in maximal human contentment and happiness. But what if it\u2019s actually the other way around? Instead of making the economic system the first link in the chain, maybe we should look at what kind of human focusing leads to both contentment AND eco-systemic health and sustainability. And then build our economic system around that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more of Scott&#8217;s article, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/02\/03\/contemplation-solitude-and-hyper-focusing-a-theory-by-scott-thompson\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10903\" alt=\"sht1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sht1-300x147.jpg\" width=\"371\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sht1-300x147.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sht1.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/02\/03\/contemplation-solitude-and-hyper-focusing-a-theory-by-scott-thompson\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/02\/03\/contemplation-solitude-and-hyper-focusing-a-theory-by-scott-thompson\/<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt: Maybe as a culture we have it all backwards. We assume that a hyper-growth economy that gives people what they desire \u2013 we should say what it can cause them to desire \u2013 will ipso facto result in maximal human contentment and happiness. But what if it\u2019s actually the other way around? Instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10902"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11197,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10902\/revisions\/11197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}