The only practical remedy, given the undeniable fact that driving bulky, polluting vehicles causes damage to others, is to give ourselves an incentive to take this damage into account when deciding what vehicles to buy.
The evidence that meditation practices may actually increase our lifespan should give us that extra incentive to take this time for ourselves.
A small number of our allocation has been used by ourselves, including as a staff incentive scheme and competitions for customers.
Thank goodness for work, the incentive we need to better and enrich ourselves and society.
America is a capitalist democracy, and if we endear ourselves to the notion of proper incentive structures as well as free and fair elections, we should demand both!
Because those industries pass on their increased costs to consumers, it may also hurt us all a little, which might provide an incentive for us to cut back on electricity use ourselves.
If this is going to be the case, then we certainly have incentive to improve the way we treat the earth, ourselves, and each other.
When there is adversity, it seems, we humans have all the greater incentive to work out ingenious ways to overcome obstacles, protect ourselves from harm, and chart new territory.
But we can make it harder on ourselves to cheat in the first place, giving us an incentive to follow our diet more strictly and diligently.
When my co-founders and I started General Assembly in 2011, we quickly found ourselves competing with a host of online and offline incumbents, many with ample funds and an incentive to keep companies like General Assembly out of education.
