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Making The
IMPOSSIBLE
POSSIBLE
BY KIM LANGEN
O
n January 25, 2018,
Rachel Bronson, PhD, the
President and CEO of the
Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists, announced,
“As of today, we are two
minutes to midnight.” The Doomsday
Clock had moved 30 seconds closer
towards doomsday from the year
before.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
was formed in 1945 by the Manhattan
Project scientists after the creation of
nuclear weapons and the annihilation
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The
decision to move the time forward in
early 2018 was based on two questions:
“Is the future of civilization safer or
at greater risk than it was last year?”
and “Is the future of civilization safer
or at greater risk compared to the
last seven decades of this bulletin?”
The concern is that humans are
making decisions and creating new
technology that are appearing to bring
the world closer to—not further away
from—a doomsday scenario, thus
creating problems that are bigger and
more complex than ever imagined.
To solve these problems, our world
must develop highly capable, wise,
and compassionate future leaders
who are mentored today by insightful
people with the ability to create new
paradigms of possibilities.
Transforming the unbelievable,
or creating new paradigms, takes
courageous people with strong beliefs.
These people may have achieved
success in their own fields that is
unparalleled by others, bringing the
once-thought “impossible” into reality,
which, most importantly, has enabled
the world to realize a higher standard.
Others have created programs that
have taken children, youth, and adults
to the top of the world by providing
them with skills, knowledge, and
thinking to reach new capabilities.
Both groups of people have changed
our belief of what is possible. They are
releasing the genius in our world.
THIS GLOBAL
MAGAZINE HERALDS
THE BEGINNING OF
A MOVEMENT TO
BRING TOGETHER A
COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE
WHO ARE CHANGING
THE WORLD BY
EMPOWERING OTHERS
TO BELIEVE AND
ACHIEVE NEW LEVELS OF
POSSIBILITIES.
Spirit of Math is an example that
has taken thousands of students to
the top of the world in mathematics
education. There is a magic that
is happening in Spirit of Math
classrooms that transforms the way
students are thinking. The insight
from Angela Duckworth and the work
of the Amarok Society, founded by
Dr. Tanyss Munro and her family, are