Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen

In today's world, it is incredibly easy to get stuck in a cycle of endless response, running from one emergency to the next while scrambling to put out fires. To stop this process, we need to make our way upstream - fixing the system that caused the problem to begin with. This book offers practicals solutions for preventing problems. Drawing from real world examples that systems and nations as a whole have taken - from schools figuring out which students were more likely to drop out and cutting their dropout rates in half to a European nation that nearly eliminated teenage drug abuse by changing the nation's culture - you will learn which problems in our society can be solved by attacking the problem at its core. And by changing our mindset and "problem blindness," we can learn how to stop tolerating our terrible reality and start taking steps to fix the world.

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