2025-06-22 Kokoro for Personal Wisdom - Presentation
Kokoro (Heart/Mind) is an AI platform designed to tap the collective wisdom of humanity and Nature to support humans in making wiser, more resilient decisions. This presentation on June 21, 2025 was the focus of a World Talent Economic Forum, hosted by Sharif Uddin Ahmed Rana, who at the outset posed these five challenges confronting his audience of young professionals:
Navigating Uncertainty in Career and Life Direction
Coping with Personal and Collective Trauma
Rebuilding Trust and Social Cohesion in a Polarized World
Building Inner Strength Amid Systemic Challenges
Aligning Values with Purpose-Driven Action
Julian Gresser’s presentation demonstrated how Kokoro can be a practical guide in exploring these questions. The full text of the Kokoro’s response and deeper inquiries can be found here.
As is often the case, an inquiry can contain a clue within it to a helpful response. The Kokoro demonstration selected Uncertainty and called upon Marcus Aurelius (Stoic Philosopher and Roman Emperor) to provide insight. His response, according to Kokoro, yielded these two insights:
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
The presentation followed with practical tools illustrating how to navigate Uncertainty by building inner power and learning to trust our authentic inner voice. A unique feature of all Kokoro apps (Kokoro for Personal Wisdom, Kokoro for Organizations, Kokoro for Resilient Communities, and Kokoro for Women’s Wisdom) is a capability to track and to measure one’s progress in cultivating wisdom and “integral resilience.” Resilience here is defined as the capacity to turn adversity and reverses into opportunities; in other words, to bounce forward, not backward in life. This core life competency is generally regarded as qualitative, hence non-economic. The Kokoro system provides a simple means to track and measure increasing skill and desired outcomes. The goal is to become aware of how and why we win, fall off, and recover. Each outcome is of equal dignity. Every moment is a gate to hone our skill; and, ultimately, a chance to discover our essential Heart/Mind.