Improve most people’s lives a little, just that

segunda-feira, março 21, 2016 David Barradas 0 Comments

From the FT, Simon Kuper

If Donald Trump is the world’s most colourful politician, Angela Merkel is probably the least. She is resolutely tedious even by the standards of German politics. The new German verb merkeln means “to do nothing, make no decisions or statement”. She never talks about a “German dream”, and you will not see her campaign under the slogan, “Make Germany great again”.
Even when she suddenly opened Germany’s borders to more than one million people last summer, she phrased this quixotic act in pragmatic language: “Wir schaffen das,” “We can do this.” Germany’s centre has largely held since, despite big advances for the anti-immigrant Alternative für Deutschland in last Sunday’s regional elections. Even amid the migrant crisis, most mainstream German politicians have remained boring pragmatists. Their aim: very slowly improve most people’s lives a little, while averting disaster.

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/942b2172-ebc5-11e5-888e-2eadd5fbc4a4.html

This is so true, most people that want to change the world make life miserable. On the contrary i am a big believer in small increments. On the bike i just think about small improvements and that has help me a lot.If i do a bit better than last year i will do very well

another link about small improvements:

http://thoughtmeme.blogspot.pt/2014/06/what-do-you-do-if-you-dont-know-what.html