Elaine Dundon, MBA, is co-author, with her husband Alex Pattakos, PhD, of The OPA! Way: Finding Joy & Meaning in Everyday Life & Work. She is also author of the international, best-selling book, The Seeds of Innovation. With her husband, she is also co-founder of The Global Meaning Institute. She is a former faculty member at the University of Toronto.

In this video, originally recorded in 2015, she points out that a third of the words we use in English have Greek roots. Ancient Greece gave birth to philosophy and to the important notion that our fate is determined by how we develop our character. The very word, philosophy, means “the love of wisdom.” She describes how, in her travels through the villages of Greece, she and her husband discovered many wisdom teachings alive in the lives of the people. She also points out how the Greek people have survived through many invasions and other crises throughout the millennia. As a result of this history they have learned how to find meaning in life under a wide range of circumstances.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He has served as vice-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, and is the recipient of its Pathfinder Award for outstanding contributions to the field of human consciousness.

(Recorded on July 8, 2015)

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