Brian Allain

I sat there, speechless

From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown For years I rarely thought to confer with anyone – let alone God – about my plans. I was goal driven, and I made major decisions about potential jobs and where to live based on my aims and the

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Learn to listen

From “Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life” by Henri Nouwen with Michael J. Christensen and Rebecca J. Laird Someone who showed me how important it is to learn to listen not just to people like Mother Teresa, whom many people revere, but to attend to the voices of the people we live with most

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The One Thing That Changes Everything

From “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything” by Stephen M. R. Covey There is one thing that is common to every individual, relationship, team, family, organization, nation, economy, and civilization throughout the world – one thing which, if removed, will destroy the most powerful government, the most successful business, the most

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They were studying to learn

From “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck, PhD Another transition, another crisis. College is when all the students who were brains in high school are thrown together.  Like our graduate students, yesterday they were king of the hill, but today who are they? Nowhere is the anxiety of being dethroned more

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technological acceleration

From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson It is one of the great truisms of our time that we live in an age of technological acceleration; the new paradigms keep rolling in, and the intervals between them keep shortening. This acceleration reflects not only the flood of new

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