THE FUTURE OF MONEY Bernard A. Lietaer - library.uniteddiversity ...

other she wasn't. This amounted to a straight denial of the reality of
the actual service rendered for free.
'The old measures of GNP were still confusing crude growth with
smart and wise growth. The Information Age objective of 'Full
Potential" has now replaced the Industrial Age idea of “ full
Employment". 'Full Potential" refers to the use of someone's leaning
capacity end the opportunity fully to develop one’s gifts. Just as was
the case with Full Employment, one can never reach 100% of the Full
Potential for a population.
'In retrospect, it was only by liberating me extraordinary potential
of human creativity, of all humans, that then was any hope for Planet
Earth. Human creativity " something, which in past generations was
the privilege of only a tiny minority: a few artists, scientists and some
other members or the intelligentsia. Even on the basis of me old
narrow definition of "employment" at least 700 million adults were
routinely 'jobless" on the planet in the 1990s. In terms of evaluating
their 'Full Potential" at the same time, estimates by our economic
historians say that less than one per thousand of humanity reached n.
They were considered rare “geniuses". Add to this the extraordinary
fact that only two of the nine forms of intelligence were being
recognised, and therefore developed and measured in the education
system; i.e. me verbal linguistic and the logical/mathematical both
with a Yang bias. The other seven forms of intelligence used to be
simply ignored. So it was very rare that the development of a child
took into account these other seven modes of learning : i.e. the
musical, spatial, bodily/kinesmetic, intrapersonal, interpersonal,
pattern recognition and mystical."'
'In short, human potentiall used to be dramatically underestimated,
not to speak of developed and used to address our challenges, n is
amazing that humanity made it as far as it did back in the 20 th
century. From today's perspective it really looks as if our species was