Brian Allain

From “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck, PhD The growth mindset is the belief that abilities can be cultivated. But it doesn’t tell you how much change is possible or how long change will take. And it doesn’t mean that everything, like preferences or values, can be changed. I was once […]

From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson Working out of the legendary Santa Fe Institute, where he served as president until 2009, West assembled an international team of researchers and advisers to collect data on dozens of cities around the world, measuring everything from crime to house-hold electrical

From “Embracing Your Second Calling: Find Passion and Purpose for the Rest of Your Life” by Dale Hanson Bourke It’s not easy to get to Pembine, Wisconsin. From Washington DC, it requires a flight to Chicago, then one to Green Bay, and either a commuter flight to Iron Mountain, Michigan, or a long drive. But

From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner BECAUSE THE WORD that God speaks to us is always an incarnate word – a word spelled out to us not alphabetically, in syllables, but enigmatically, in events, even in the books we read and the movies we see – the chances

From “How Will You Measure Your Life?” by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon The likeness – the person I want to become – was the simplest of the three parts, and was largely an intellectual process… I distilled the likeness of what I wanted to become:

From “Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life” by Henri Nouwen with Michael J. Christensen and Rebecca J. Laird Jean-Pierre do Caussade, in his eighteenth-century letters to those for whom he served as spiritual director, provides specific instructions on how to read a book spiritually: If you are to get from it all the good

From “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation” by Parker J. Palmer Each of us arrives here with a nature, which means both limits and potentials. We can learn as much about our nature by running into our limits as by experiencing our potentials.

From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown Disentangling what we are told about ourselves from what resonates inside of us requires ongoing self-reflection. “Women without children are abnormal.” “Black people aren’t smart enough to complete graduate school.” “I wouldn’t live in that neighborhood.” These are but

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From “The Language of the Soul: Meeting God in the Longings of Our Hearts” by Jeff Crosby “Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed in the undivided self: only as we are in communion with ourselves can we find community