From “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck, PhD There’s another mindset in which these traits are not simply a hand you’re dealt and have to live with, always trying to convince yourself and others that you have a royal flush when you’re secretly worried it’s a pair of tens. In this […]
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From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson While the creative walk can produce new serendipitous combinations of existing ideas in our heads, we can also cultivate serendipity in the way that we absorb new ideas from the outside world. Reading remains an unsurpassed vehicle for the transmission of
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From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner If the world is sane, then Jesus is mad as a hatter and the Last Supper is the Mad Tea Party. The world says, Mind your own business, and Jesus says, There is no such thing as your own business. The world
From “The Discipline of Inspiration: The Mysterious Encounter with God at the Heart of Creativity” by Carey Wallace Modern neuroscientists have begun to map the activity of inspiration, name the implicated chemicals, push pins into the hidden quadrants of our minds. Psychologists have identified some of inspiration’s visible triggers: nature, drugs, grief, discipline, rest, surprise.
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From “Wired to Lead: Being the Leader the Church Didn’t Think You Could Be” by Suzanne Nadell If you research the subject of bias, you will see many articles pointing to a 1989 study that focused on women working in a factory. This decades-old study compared women who were machinists to women on the assembly
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From “Walk with Me: A Journey through the Landscape of Trauma” by Ellen Corcella With a group of travelers also adopting, we flew from New York City to Beijing where we laid over for thirty-six hours. We then flew to Quanzhou, Guangdong Province and checked into the White Swan Hotel. At the same time, social
From “Dropout to Doctorate: Breaking the Chains of Educational Injustice” By Terrence Lester, PhD While numerous historical texts outline the broad strokes of racism’s timeline in America, spanning from the arrival of the first enslaved Africans through the bloodshed of the Civil War into Reconstruction and across the pivotal civil rights movement, these tests –
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From “How AI Changes Your Customers: The Marketing Guide to Humanity’s Next Chapter” by Mark Schaefer The inspiration for this book was planted in 2025 when I was invited to participate as one of 300 futurists in a project to determine how AI will change humanity by 2035. I’m pretty sure the researchers had found
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From “World of Wonders: A Spirituality of Reading” by Jeff Crosby What I am suggesting in these pages is to approach our reading life with the same spirit of joy, expectation, and discipline that we do others that Scripture is quite clear about, such as prayer, fasting, solitude, and confession, among others. Reading as a
From “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation” by Parker J. Palmer My youthful understanding of “Let your life speak” led me to conjure up the highest values I could imagine and then try to conform my life to them whether they were mine or not. If that sounds like what we