From “Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life” by Luke Burgis ESTABLISH AND COMMUNICATE A CLEAR HIERARCHY OF VALUES A hierarchy of values is an antidote to mimetic conformity. If all values are treated equal, then the one that wins out – especially at a time of crisis – is the one that […]
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From “How Will You Measure Your Life?” by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon Let me explain in management terms: police chiefs need to look at the numbers of each type of crime, over time, to know whether their strategy is working. The manager of a business cannot see the complete health of
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From “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life” by Richard Rohr If you have, in fact, deepened and grown “in wisdom, age, and grace” (Luke 2:52), you are able to be patient, inclusive, and understanding of all the previous stages. That is what I mean by my frequent use of the phrase
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From “Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Help Others, Do Work that Matters, and Make Smarter Choices About Giving Back” by William Macaskill Research shows that the most consistent predictor of job satisfaction is engaging work, which can be broken down into five factors (this is known in psychology as the job
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From “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation” by Parker J. Palmer The God I know does not ask us to conform to some abstract norm for the ideal self. God asks us only to honor our created nature, which means our limits as well as potentials. When we fail to do
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From “Trust the Whisper: How Answering Quiet Callings Inspires Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Grace“ by Kathy Izard As each whisper came along, I began gaining confidence every time I made a detour, despite not understanding the destination. I became willing to divert from my life plan and follow a life path. It has become clear
From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown Thurman was convinced that the church’s disregard for the prophetic message of Jesus remained most costly for disenfranchised people. It is not surprising that early Christians failed to promote the social justice aspects of Jesus’s teachings given the atmosphere
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From “Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life” by Henri Nouwen with Michael J. Christensen and Rebecca J. Laird God’s time is timeless. Kairos contains both past and future events in the present moment. Words like after and before, or first or last, belong to mortal life and chronology. God is all in all, the
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