What Goes Around : An Exploration of Why Our Actions Matter

di K.B. Starr (Autore)

K.B. Starr, 2025

What if every action—every choice, word, intention—returns to us in ways we do not always see? Across thousands of years and every major civilization, humans have sensed a simple, powerful truth: what we put into the world eventually comes back. What Goes Around, Comes Around is a sweeping exploration of that idea—from ancient wisdom traditions to modern scientific research. Drawing on philosophy, psychology, evolutionary biology, behavioral economics, and systems theory, K.B. Starr reveals a universal pattern: life is responsive. Our actions ripple outward through relationships, communities, and systems—and those ripples eventually return to shape our own lives. Across fifteen deeply engaging chapters, we travel through Persia's Asha, Greece's moral philosophy, India's karma, China's harmony, Russia's shared soul, Korea's generational ethics, Africa's Ubuntu, and the Indigenous American circle of reciprocity. Each culture discovered its own version of the same insight: we live in a web of consequence. Nothing is isolated. Nothing is lost. Modern science confirms what ancient cultures intuited. Psychology shows that fairness and empathy are built into the human mind. Behavioral economics demonstrates that cooperation creates prosperity while selfishness destroys trust. Evolution reveals that kindness, not cruelty, built our species. Complexity science shows how small actions cascade into large outcomes within interconnected systems. This is not mystical thinking. It is the architecture of reality. As our world becomes increasingly divided—politically, socially, emotionally—this book offers a hopeful, rational, and profoundly human case for goodness. Not moral perfection, but moral alignment. Not naïve optimism, but the practical understanding that our choices shape the systems we must live in. In these pages you will discover: Why actions echo through personal, social, and global networks How cultures across history independently arrived at the same moral pattern The scientific mechanisms behind reciprocity, consequence, and return Why kindness, honesty, and restraint are not virtues alone, but survival strategies How individual choices accumulate into the future we create together What Goes Around, Comes Around is both a grand intellectual journey and a quiet invitation: To live with intention. To act with depth. To contribute to a world that eventually circles back to us. If you've ever sensed that your actions matter—even when no one is watching—this book gives language, structure, and evidence to that inner knowing. It is a guide for a fractured age, a map of moral consequence, and a reminder of the power each of us carries in our daily choices. What you send into the world becomes the world you receive. And who you become along the way is the greatest return of all.

• Autore: K.B. Starr
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: K.B. Starr
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798232501013