From “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life” by Richard Rohr There is much evidence on several levels that there are at least two major tasks thuman life. The first task is to build a strong “container” or identity, the second is to find the contents that the container was meant to […]
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From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do that, because what the world needs is more people who have come alive. -Howard Thurman My friend Harriet and I trudge across the clay
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From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner IF GOD SPEAKS anywhere it is into our personal lives that he speaks. Someone we love dies, say. Some unforeseen act of kindness or cruelty touches the heart or makes the blood run cold. We fail a friend, or a friend fails
From “Cumulative Advantage: How to Build Momentum for Your Ideas, Business, and Life Against All Odds” by Mark W. Schaefer Our exploration of the inner workings of Cumulative Advantage starts in 1968 with a Columbia University professor named Meyer Robert Schkolnick Meyer was born into a poor family of Russian Jews who had immigrated to
From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson It is one of the great truisms of our time that we live in an age of technological acceleration; the new paradigms keep rolling in, and the intervals between them keep shortening. This acceleration reflects not only the flood of new
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From “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success” by Adam Grant In this book, I want to persuade you that we underestimate the success of givers like David Hornik. Although we often stereotype givers as chumps and doormats, they turn out to be surprisingly successful. To figure out why givers dominate the top
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