IF WE WANTED TO
Why Humanity Often Stands In The Way Of It's Own Better FutureBy Dave Uwaifo
Length3h 41m
About this audiobook
What if the world’s greatest obstacle to becoming better is us?
Humanity has never lacked people who believe in kindness, peace, justice, compassion, and progress. Yet the same world that longs for unity repeatedly creates division. We ask for understanding while refusing to listen. We desire peace while allowing anger to govern our responses. We condemn cruelty while quietly passing our own unhealed pain to people who never caused it.
In IF WE WANTED TO: Why Humanity Often Stands in the Way of Its Own Better Future, Dave Uwaifo explores the uncomfortable space between the world humanity says it wants and the choices we make every day.
Through reflections on emotional inheritance, healing, bitterness, responsibility, empathy, human behavior, and the ripple effect of goodness, this book argues that meaningful social change begins long before governments, institutions, or movements transform. It begins within the individual.
Because hurt can spread—but so can healing. Misery can multiply—but so can kindness. And one person courageous enough to interrupt an unhealthy cycle can influence generations they may never meet.
The better world we imagine is possible. The question is whether we are willing to become the people capable of creating it.
Audiobook details
GenreSelf-Help
Length3 hrs 41 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Epigraph
3Foreword
4Introduction
5Preface
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6Prologue
7Chapter 1: The Better World We Imagine
8Chapter 2: Humanity's Greatest Contradiction
9Chapter 3: When Hurt Becomes Identity
10Chapter 4: Misery Loves Company
11Chapter 5: The Contagion of Emotions
12Chapter 6: The Invisible Inheritance
13Chapter 7: The Responsibility of Healing
14Chapter 8: Choosing Response Over Reaction
15Chapter 9: The Ripple Effect of Goodness
16Chapter 10: Building Emotionally Healthy Communities
17Chapter 11: Becoming the Interruption
18Chapter 12: If We Wanted To
19Epilogue
20Afterword
21Acknowledgement
22About The Author
23Books By This Author
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