Reconnecting Disconnected Generations: 14 Unbreakable Links That Bind Humanity Across Time

You were born into a chord. Decide whether you will be its harmony or its break.There is a crisis running beneath politics, economics and technology: a crisis of connection. The cords that bound one generation to the next are being cut. We have raised a generation with more access to information than any before it, and less access to the people who could tell them what to do with it.Three thousand years ago, in Proverbs 30, Agur named four broken generations: those who curse their fathers, those who are pure in their own eyes, those whose eyes are lifted up, and those who devour the vulnerable. Every one of them is alive today, often inside the same household.Reconnecting Disconnected Generations sets out the repair. Fourteen unbreakable links, grouped in three. Foundation: Wisdom, Knowledge, Truth and Honour, what a generation must know before it can pass anything on. Character: Love, Meekness, Virtue, Forgiveness and Gratitude, what makes the knowing bearable to live beside. Impact: Vision, Imagination, Planning, Thinking and Discipline, what turns an inheritance into a future.Every Link chapter closes with two short sections, For the Elder and For the Younger, a Bridge Practice to do inside a week, and an Action Page of seven steps. At the back: a Generational Audit that shows which links are strong and which are weak in your family or organisation, a ninety-day Reconnection Plan, and a discussion guide for families, small groups and teams.Whether you are young and cut off from the wisdom of your elders, or older and afraid your wisdom will die with you, this book was written to build the bridge between you. Third edition, every chapter rewritten, with twenty-three diagrams.