From “Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life” by Luke Burgis Consider how ingrained sacrificial thinking is in our psyche. If only we could destroy that other political party, that other company, those terrorists, that troublemaker, that fast-food joint next door that has caused me to gain ten pounds, everything would be better. […]

From “The Discipline of Inspiration: The Mysterious Encounter with God at the Heart of Creativity” by Carey Wallace We mistreat the word inspiration almost as much as the word love. Travel ads promise inspiration for the whole family, if we just pick the right beach. Sports figures thank their families for inspiring them to kick

From “How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion” by David McRaney Steve explained that after thousands of recorded conversations they had found that battling over differing interpretations of the evidence kept the people they met from exploring why they felt so strongly one way or the other. People could remain in

From “Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most” by Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz Long, happy, healthy: it’s the slogan for a peculiarly modern vision of a life worth living. The world’s great traditions don’t endorse a “long, happy, healthy: life without qualification. Neither do billions of followers of Buddha, Jesus,

From “Cumulative Advantage: How to Build Momentum for Your Ideas, Business, and Life Against All Odds” by Mark W. Schaefer The idea for my book lit up before me like an airport runway. I knew the marketing world was about to be transformed. We were being handed an entirely new way to connect to consumers

From “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life” by Richard Rohr If there is such a  thing as human perfection, it seems to emerge precisely from how we handle the imperfection that is everywhere, especially our own. What a clever place for God to hide holiness, so that only the humble and

From “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything” by Stephen M. R. Covey Here’s another example on a much smaller scale. “Jim,” a vendor in New York City, set up shop and sold donuts and coffee to passersby as they went in and out of their office buildings. During the breakfast and

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From “The Language of the Soul: Meeting God in the Longings of Our Hearts” by Jeff Crosby  Several years ago, on one such trip I read a book by Harvard Business School professor Bill George and Peter Sims of the Stanford Graduate School of Business titled Discover Your True North – an appropriate book to

From “Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life” by Luke Burgis Scapegoats are chosen through a mimetic process of judgment, not a rational one. Consider the ancient practice of stoning: a group of people throws stones at someone until they die from blunt trauma. It was the official form of capital punishment in