Chapter 15
Reimagining Resources
Many of us believe we can’t take action because we don’t have the resources (e.g., time, money, education) to pursue a new project or idea. However, there may be overlooked abundance—something we have so much of that we take it for granted—waiting to be put to use in valuable ways. Likewise, sometimes the constraints we curse can actually fuel creativity and possibility. We take inspiration from the recent discovery that all the known matter in the universe actually represents only about 5 percent of the actual matter that exists. The other 95 percent is dark energy and dark matter, which we can’t directly see.1 If we become curious about the resources we think we have or think we need and the constraints we ...
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