From “Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life” by Henri Nouwen with Michael J. Christensen and Rebecca J. Laird It is remarkable to see how prayer and contemplation open your eyes to nature, and how nature makes you more attentive to divine guidance. I once saw contemplation as something done best in the quiet of […]

From “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything” by Stephen M. R. Covey Low trust causes friction, whether it is caused by unethical behavior or by ethical but incompetent behavior (because even good intentions can never take the place of bad judgment). Low trust is the greatest cost in life and in

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From “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck, PhD The growth mindset is the belief that abilities can be cultivated. But it doesn’t tell you how much change is possible or how long change will take. And it doesn’t mean that everything, like preferences or values, can be changed. I was once

From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson Working out of the legendary Santa Fe Institute, where he served as president until 2009, West assembled an international team of researchers and advisers to collect data on dozens of cities around the world, measuring everything from crime to house-hold electrical

From “Embracing Your Second Calling: Find Passion and Purpose for the Rest of Your Life” by Dale Hanson Bourke It’s not easy to get to Pembine, Wisconsin. From Washington DC, it requires a flight to Chicago, then one to Green Bay, and either a commuter flight to Iron Mountain, Michigan, or a long drive. But

From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner BECAUSE THE WORD that God speaks to us is always an incarnate word – a word spelled out to us not alphabetically, in syllables, but enigmatically, in events, even in the books we read and the movies we see – the chances

From “How Will You Measure Your Life?” by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon The likeness – the person I want to become – was the simplest of the three parts, and was largely an intellectual process… I distilled the likeness of what I wanted to become:

From “Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life” by Henri Nouwen with Michael J. Christensen and Rebecca J. Laird Jean-Pierre do Caussade, in his eighteenth-century letters to those for whom he served as spiritual director, provides specific instructions on how to read a book spiritually: If you are to get from it all the good

From “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation” by Parker J. Palmer Each of us arrives here with a nature, which means both limits and potentials. We can learn as much about our nature by running into our limits as by experiencing our potentials.