We can’t make the world a better place without self-improvement, self-change!

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readDec 26, 2021

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Question from the Internet:

“What are the small good actions that don’t require a lot of effort, but make this world a better place?”

The world will become a better place when we all try to make it better for others.

At the moment — driven by our instinctively egocentric, subjective worldview and calculations — we want to make the world a better place for ourselves, most of the time at the expense of others.

This is how we are programmed from the very beginning.

Such calculations, such an inner software is making us behave like cancer in today’s globally integrated and interdependent world.

Thus we will need to — as urgently as possible — learn how to make calculations for the sake of, for the wellbeing, optimal development of others and the whole world, without any selfish, egocentric calculations, bias, above and against our inherent egos that cannot be suppressed, erased.

This is a process against our inherent nature which inherent nature will resist and fight with all of its might to stop such attempts. We do not even know that all-powerful ego ruling us until we challenge, provoke it, and truly try to act against it.

This is why we need a unique, purposeful and practical, empirical scientific method in carefully organized, concocted conditions, environments, where we can draw out the ego and also start correcting it, harnessing, channeling its awesome power from destruction to construction, from hate to love, from separation to connection.

This way we will develop a unique duality only human beings are capable of, holding both the inherent human ego and Nature’s overall, life-giving altruistic forces in our hands, existing, perceiving reality within the vast contrast.

This is when we become “truly Human beings”, creatures that can consciously, proactively exist above their own instinctive nature in similarity with Nature’s integrated, life-giving system, only existing for the sake of others and for the sake of Nature.

This is when the world will become a better place and the “small, good” actions leading there are methodical, honest, unrestrained self-recognition and gradual self-correction, self-upgrade.

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Zsolt Hermann
Zsolt Hermann

Written by Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.

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