Bend, Stretch, Reach, Teach, Reveal, Reflect, Rejoice, Repeat

Here’s a proposed strategy for sustaining human progress on a finite planet, in nine Twitter posts. What would you add or take away?

Strategy for sustainable human progress? Bend, stretch, reach, teach, reveal, reflect, rejoice, repeat. I’ll elaborate.

— Andy Revkin (@Revkin) 10 May 13

@Revkin 1. Bend, of course, is about flexibility and avoiding brittleness in both structures and policies.

— Andy Revkin (@Revkin) 10 May 13

@Revkin 2. Stretch is about testing boundaries, via both exploration and innovation – sustaining curiosity and the courage to fail and fear.

— Andy Revkin (@Revkin) 10 May 13

@Revkin 3. Reach is empathy and maintaining a collaborative, communicative culture, sharing and shaping ideas that matter.

— Andy Revkin (@Revkin) 10 May 13

@Revkin 4. Teach: Nurturing in children the capacity to sustain the human adventure. Examples: //t.co/Srno6jMxcm //t.co/xtkVVbLW7f

— Andy Revkin (@Revkin) 10 May 13

@Revkin 5. Reveal: Sustain the capacity for observation and transparency. Examples: //t.co/wEHOlunJ3t //t.co/rrJClSIym8

— Andy Revkin (@Revkin) 10 May 13

@Revkin 6. Reflect is analysis, followup. Initiatives are launched, outcomes not always tracked. Needed for “learn and adjust” strategies.

— Andy Revkin (@Revkin) 10 May 13

@Revkin 7. Rejoice: Relish the gift of life and humanness, with all its merits and faults. Anthropophilia: //t.co/6LSrAER81P

— Andy Revkin (@Revkin) 10 May 13

@Revkin 8. Repeat: The discipline to avoid resting on laurels, to retest systems, examine conventions, to go back to step 1.

— Andy Revkin (@Revkin) 10 May 13