Ever since a Syfy Network T.V. series came out, “Being Human”, I’ve thought a lot about that theme in life, at work and in leadership (without ever watching the series, sorry Syfy!)
Those two words together are poetry to me, synchronous with kindness and humility in the world today, and something in its meaning is lost in the way we approach life in our every day. It speaks to the very problem of corporate dwellers – how to regain our humanity in a post-humanist world.
The very idea that collecting money or collecting things has both temporarily rendered us unkind or unaware as humans, and it’s one way to define post-humanism. Another way to define post-humanism is here, in a NYTimes Sunday Book Review by .
And posthumanism? It elects to understand the world in terms of impersonal forces and structures, and to deny the importance, and even the legitimacy, of human agency.
When thinking about the topic of leadership – and I refer to that term broadly as leaders of our personal lives, our children’s lives and our work lives, we need to strive to become better humans, and at least ponder the very idea of feeling deeply connected as humans again, before we can become better leaders.
As Ellen put it, “Being nice and generous and kind isn’t something anyone should do in hopes of getting an award. Instead, it’s simply something we should do as part of being human.”)
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