Tag: Nicholas Bate

  • ‘Remember what’s important’ and other principles of the modern hunter-gatherer

    Humans are not hunter-gatherers anymore, but we were for a long time. Nicholas Bate has a list of 50 skills we collectively gained from that era can go to waste in our modern existence, unless we realize how useful they still are. I like the list because it combines small practicalities with big-picture stuff. For example:

    Tell stories that fire the imagination.

    Use eyes for distances beyond the screen: look long, look up.

    Remember what’s important.

    Stare at night skies unpolluted by light.

    Establish rituals: writing, building & crafting, reflecting

    No elevators. No escalators. No PPT. No Facebook after the sun sets.

    Be self-reliant: learn how it works, from pensions to mowers.

    Believe in magic.

    Scan the horizon.

    Evolve, change and learn from the masters.

    Never let the fire go out.