Brian Allain

The Five Waves of Trust

From “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything” by Stephen M. R. Covey The First Wave: Self Trust The first wave, Self Trust, deals with the confidence we have in ourselves – in our ability to set and achieve goals, to keep commitments, to walk our talk – and also with our

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“commonplacing”

From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson Scholars, amateur scientists, aspiring men of letters – just about anyone with intellectual ambition in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was likely to keep a commonplace book. The great minds of the period – Milton, Bacon, Locke – were zealous believers

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Something Better and Truer

From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner THERE WAS THE DAY I signed the contract for that first novel that I had started in college, for instance. It was a major event for me, needless to say – the fulfillment of my wildest dreams of literary glory. But of

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