“We are facing a historic threshold where a wide corridor of opportunities opens up before our eyes. The complexity that has brought us here is given by that succession of historical transformations that have the world in a state of shaking in the environmental, the philosophical and the economic. That same complexity is expressed in our identity, in the way we have evolved as human beings. We have a great creative capacity to create technologies that in their conception seek to improve our lives and support a process of globalization that is imminent. Advances in science allow us to glimpse an improvement in our spectrum of life and study the possibility of expanding the borders beyond the planet. We are moving towards a future where the ingenuity of man will materialize more and more quickly and more clearly. However, we live in the face of incredible paradoxes, because those same steps that we have traveled have us in an existential crisis, we feel more alone and fragmented”
Fragment “Three principles for reinvention”, Natalia Zuleta
What is it about travel that sweeps away the known world and broadens the perspective of those who embark on an encounter with the unknown? Colombian Natalia Zuleta, a social communicator from the Javeriana University of Bogotá, specializing in Marketing Management and a Master’s in Film Production from the London Film School from England shares his carte blanche process “This narrative was hatched a year ago on one of my trips around the world. I have always believed that traveling is feeding the soul and learning life lessons. The magic of travel lies in the fact that in the midst of fun, great reflections are generated in unknown places in comparison with the usual sunrises”.
This book presents us with aspects such as technological development, the climate crisis and the devastating effects of the pandemic as a point of convergence that confronts us with countless questions that question us about the meaning of life, our purpose and choices on a path full of of learning and challenges that can overwhelm us and lead us to stop along the way and rethink the future.
The author proposes three principles, the first of which is to recognize in our spirituality a new perspective to explore the world, giving up making judgments and restricting our progress due to various limitations; secondly, she invites us to reconnect with the creative potential that lives in each one of us as an exercise to safeguard our resilience to move from conviction and not from fear.
As a third pillar, it invites us to assume the sustainability of reality through the recognition of our evolution to recognize key, empathic, compassionate and responsible habits: “We can restart, reinvent and move towards a revolution that is given not by the material but by the spiritual, to reconnect with what truly makes us great”. The book proposes a series of reflections towards the future in a historical moment in which we will never be the same again. A way of rethinking life through the lessons learned and three principles, which are interconnected for reinvention: spirituality, creativity and sustainability.
Along with its interesting content, this book presents a series of footnotes supported by a bibliography, in which Natalia recommends texts such as “The teacher in the age of Aquarius” (2007)published by the Kundalini Research Institute and whose version in Spanish was in charge of Stilo Impresores Ltda.
“The human exercise of revisiting history and personal experiences can never be that of machines, and therein lies our unlimited potential. Between the history of humanity and personal history, a perennial and transcendental wisdom is born that can guide us in the inner search we need to move forward, to strengthen ourselves and cultivate our resilience and adaptability.”
Before this book Natalia Zuleta she was co-author of three more titles, “The hundred most creative questions of children” (2013), “Creativity in 7 verbs” (2018), and “The forgotten secrets of the forest” (2021), published with Intermediate Editors. She is currently a speaker, a Kundalini Yoga teacher, a Master in Digital Marketing from the University of Barcelonahas studied creative leadership at the School of Think, in Lisbon, Portugal, as well as Leadership in Education at Harvard.
This multifaceted woman has been given the task for the last 20 years of leading important processes of innovation in creativity and sustainability in the Fontana Gymnasium College, in Bogotá, Colombia, where she works as Director of Marketing and Innovation. In 2017 she produced the film documentary “The Awakening of a new education”, which addresses the relevance of developing creative thinking in today’s world. He writes a column in the newspaper La República.
“The world needs more and more of us and we of it. Interdependence implies an enormous responsibility as a species. We can invent new technologies, discover new planets and horizons for our dreams, but as long as we do not change within ourselves, reality cannot be transformed. Jules Verne warned with a correct clarity: “The Earth does not need new continents, but new men.”
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Title: Three Principles for Reinvention
Author: Natalia Zuleta
Theme: Personal growth, spirituality
Editorial: DIANA
Year: 2022
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