Masculine, Feminine, and the Danger of Overfocus

In this episode with Rashmir Balasubramaniam of https://rashmir.net/ we discuss the broken balance between masculine and feminine ways of operating. Not as opposites to set against each other, but as complementary forces we have allowed to fall dangerously out of alignment. Rashmir offers one of the most unexpected and clarifying metaphors I've encountered for understanding what our economic system has done to us: the biology of shortsightedness. And she lands at reversibility and genuine hope.

The key highlights are:

• Why the problem isn't masculinity or the drive toward outcomes. It's the over-reliance on one mode of operating at the expense of everything else, and what that crowding-out effect has cost us
• The shortsightedness metaphor: how over-focusing on a single goal, whether in our eyes or our economies, physically and systemically narrows what we're able to see as possible
• Why the belief that the damage is irreversible may be the single biggest barrier to genuine change, and why the regenerative evidence says otherwise

Links and notes for show:

• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Carol Sanford and Regenisis Group

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