From “Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life” by Luke Burgis You probably follow at least a few people who function as unhealthy models of desire for you. It might be an acquaintance or former colleague, someone you follow on social media, or maybe even a former classmate whose career you’ve followed through […]
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From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner THE QUESTION IS not whether the things that happen to you are chance things or God’s things because, of course, they are both at once. There is no chance thing through which God cannot speak – even the walk from the house
From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson Consider, as an alternate scenario, the story of Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of the online payment site PayPal, who decided in early 2005 the Web was ripe for an upgrade in the way it handled
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From “How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion” by David McRaney What counts as dangerous ignorance or outdated dogma? What qualifies as a malignant tradition, defunct politics, or a misguided practice? What norms are so harmful, what beliefs are so incorrect that, once we know how to change minds, we should
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From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner LIFE ITSELF CAN BE thought of as an alphabet by which God graciously makes known his presence and purpose and power among us. Like the Hebrew alphabet, the alphabet of grace has no vowels, and in that sense his words to us
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From “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything” by Stephen M. R. Covey Simply put, trust means confidence. The opposite of trust – distrust – is suspicion. When you trust people, you have confidence in them, in their integrity and in their abilities. When you distrust, you are suspicious of them –
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From “How Will You Measure Your Life?” by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon Frederick Herzberg, probably one of the most incisive writers on the topic of motivation theory, published a breakthrough article in the HBR… The theory distinguishes between two different types of factors: hygiene factors and motivation factors… Hygiene factors are