![]() Selected as a ' Paperback of the Decade' by Blackwells. Love, the most powerful of human emotions, the source of all creativity, collaboration, insight, and excellence, has been systematically drained from our lives our work, teams, and classrooms. ![]() Winner of the Aventis Prize for Science Books 2005. (Heinemann/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004) You want more satisfaction from life, and more time for yourself, your family, and your friends. The One Thing explains the success habit to overcome the six lies that block our success, beat the seven thieves that steal time, and leverage the laws of purpose, priority, and productivity. This book is the first to bring these new ideas together and to weave them into the historical context of a scientific search for better ways to live. This new physics of society has a different philosophy, however - not to determine how to govern or organize, but to examine the consequences of particular choices and to understand how our laws, institutions and customs arise from the effect each individual has on the others. Today, physics is enjoying a revival in the social, economic and political sciences, as we find that large numbers of people can display behaviour eerily reminiscent of so many mindless particles, all interacting with one another. This programme was pursued, from many different political perspectives, by Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Auguste Comte, John Stuart Mill and others but social and political philosophy gradually abandonded such a scientific approach. But Hobbes had begun a new adventure: to look for 'scientific' rules that governed society. His answer looks unappealing today: a dictatorial monarchy that ruled with an iron fist. The Word provides us with the very wisdom of God that we need for all of life’s decisions and direction. ![]() But his approach was not to be based on the wishful thinking of Plato's 'Republic' or Bacon's 'New Atlantis' Hobbes used Galileo's mechanics to construct a theory of government from physical first principles. Tired of the civil war ravaging England, Thomas Hobbes decided in the seventeenth century that he would work out how society should be governed. Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another
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