Imposter Syndrome, Year 55
By Bruce Reyes-Chow – “My ongoing roller coaster of vocational discernment and self-doubt” Read the free article here
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Google it
From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson If the commonplace book tradition tells us that the best way to nurture hunches is to write everything down, the serendipity engine of the Web suggests a parallel directive: look everything up.
God Will Make a Way
From “Embracing Your Second Calling: Find Passion and Purpose for the Rest of Your Life” by Dale Hanson Bourke In their book God Will Make a Way, psychologists Henry Cloud and John Townsend describe a concept called “finishing.” According to Drs. Cloud and Townsend, we all have relationships, experiences, and lessons in life that are
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Great Laughter
From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner PART OF THE FARCE was that for the first time in my life that year in New York, I started going to church regularly, and what was farcical about it was not that I went but my reason for going, which was
it will happen, and to you
From “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life” by Richard Rohr It is not that suffering or failure might happen, or that it will only happen to you if you are bad (which is what religious people often think), or that it will happen to the unfortunate, or to a few in
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The most interesting things in life often remain invisible
From “Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life” by Henri Nouwen with Michael J. Christensen and Rebecca J. Laird By exercising spiritual understanding, we come to see more clearly and hear more deeply the mysterious interconnectedness of all things (what the desert fathers called theoria physike – a vision of how things hang together). Discernment
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the fanciful notion
From “Cumulative Advantage: How to Build Momentum for Your Ideas, Business, and Life Against All Odds” by Mark W. Schaefer Malcolm Gladwell brings the Matthew Effect to popular attention in his book Outliers, which I warmly recommend. Gladwell blows apart the fanciful notion of rags-to-riches success. “People don’t rise from nothing. We do owe something
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How 50 Cups of Coffee Can Change Your Life
Raising investment, changing careers, or leaving your city? Then you owe it to yourself to have coffee with 50 people. Read the free article here
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“Be not afraid.”
From “The Language of the Soul: Meeting God in the Longings of Our Hearts” by Jeff Crosby One of the most common refrains in Scripture is the simple admonition, “Be not afraid.” Nearly one hundred uses of that phrase are found from Genesis to Zechariah in the Old Testament, and from Matthew to Revelation in
givers have a distinctive edge
From “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success” by Adam Grant Dormant ties offer the access to novel information to novel information that weak ties afford, but without the discomfort. As Levin and colleagues explain, “reconnecting a dormant relationship is not like starting a relationship from scratch. When people reconnect, they still have
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