It began as our curiosity.
If billions of us have been humaning for millions of years,
why isn’t there a how-to-human roadmap yet?
why don’t we wake up eager to learn and teach humanness?
why aren’t we experts at managing our work and lives?
It brought us this understanding.
For most of history, humans learned by osmosis: from elders and our shared rhythms. We were not “taught” how-to-human; we “learned” by following those who lived it.
But modern life broke that lineage. From osmosis, we now master technology, productivity, performance, and such. But we face unnecessary afflict and conflict due to low humanness coherence. This is our new-age epidemic.
What we know is tried & tested, and still true is.
We don’t need to create a desire for humanness.ing. Neither do we need to generate self-trust that “we can be our own experts”. This is natural, intuitive, and instinctive to us.
What we recognized through our work is.
We are up against rampant resistance to it. Social construct (our norms and our voices) has demoted humanness – devaluing it, dismissing it, pushing it to the back burner. Mislabeling it as soft, optional, and a bother.
Not because humanness.ing is irrelevant to modern times.
But because it is a difficult-to-address paradox: universal, yet uniquely individual.
We agree, it is difficult. But also, pressing. The challenge ahead of us is.
How do we embrace the humanness paradox(es) to make it learnable and usable?
How do we make humanness as actionable and measurable as productivity?
How do we convince ourselves of the seamless ways the dots connect from humanness to achieving desirable outcomes – making more money, getting the dream job, resolving long-standing conflicts etc?
Our dearth is not of evidence, but of volume. Humanness.ing belongs.
In organizations, modernizing culture metrics.
In digital ecosystems, revolutionizing human endeavors.
In leadership boardrooms, streamlining for scale.
In workshops, aligning high-performing teams.
In HR dashboards, coping with burnout.
In classrooms, rethinking foundations and futures.
At arm’s length, within reach of
a family, navigating relationships.
a social influencer, shaping countless minds.
a friend, creating safe spaces.
a 16+, learning to be their better selves.
a parent, striving to raise finer humans.
Our question is – even though humanness is not yet trendy, will we, you & I, speak about it?
Not in ways that sound good on paper, but as what happens in real-time? In our own worlds, in our own words? Can we raise resonance, even without the ability to fully articulate?