Everything in the universe has an inherent tendency to participate in networks and synchronize with others. As Steven Strogatz explains it in his book SYNC, this tendency “pervades nature at every scale from the nucleus to the cosmos. Every night along the tidal rivers of Malaysia, thousands of fireflies congregate in unison, without any leader or cue from the environment. Even our bodies are symphonies of rhythm, kept alive by the relentless, coordinated firing of thousands of pacemaker cells in our hearts.” The universal tendency for synchronization was once observed by Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens when he was observing two pendulum clocks in his bedroom. After mixing up the swings of the pendulums, he found that within a half-hour they always returned to consonance and remained so afterward for as long as he left them alone. So while linear thinking or “default state of mind,” has been our automatic state of mind, our natural tendency is to think holistically and to synchronize with others, exhibiting, mindfulness and nonlinear thinking. We can see evidence of this truth in sports, music and social or cultural events; any instance when we get together as group and focus on the same goal. Our natural tendency for synchronization, when combined with the defensive nature of our linear thinking, makes us extremely vulnerable to any negative or violent event. We have a high tendency to synchronize with violence. It’s no wonder, then, that the less than 5 percent of the human population that chooses to resolve their differences through violence can swing the majority to synchronize with them, dominating political discourse for competition by further violence and destruction rather than cooperation for construction. The result is a lose-lose situation, rather than the win-win that typically comes from living networks. In response to the exponential rate of change and chaos that is the hallmark the digital era, our default state of mind, with its defense mechanisms, codes our judgment system with fear, guilt, blame, anger, negativity, violence, hopelessness, and liability management, lowering the quality of information processing in the brain. Nonlinear perception welcomes chaos as a necessary ingredient to forge a new order with peace, positivity, hope, asset management and creativity. Worrying about the past or future prevents us from giving full attention to the present, and it hinders our ability to focus our creative brains to manage the challenges of the fast-changing digital world.