From “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success” by Adam Grant In the 1830s, Lincoln was striving to be the DeWitt Clinton of Illinois, referencing a U.S. senator and New York governor who spearheaded the construction of the Erie canal. When Lincoln withdrew from his first Senate race to help Lyman Trumbull win …
important wisdom from Mark Schaefer https://businessesgrow.com/2023/06/19/beat-chatgpt/
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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 …
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The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion” by David McRaney What counts as dangerous ignorance or outdated dogma?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 …