From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson While the creative walk can produce new serendipitous combinations of existing ideas in our heads, we can also cultivate serendipity in the way that we absorb new ideas from the outside world. Reading remains an unsurpassed vehicle for the transmission of […]
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The last in the series “Is Publishing Sustainable?” by Kaitlin Curtice Read the free article here
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From “Embracing Your Second Calling: Find Passion and Purpose for the Rest of Your Life” by Dale Hanson Bourke Leaving good things behind can be hard. But leaving the pain of the past can be far more challenging. To some degree, we all have places in our hearts where the past is still gripping us.
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From “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success” by Adam Grant One of Rifkin’s maxims is “I believe in the strength of weak ties.” It’s in homage to a classic study by the Stanford sociologist Mark Granovetter. Strong ties are our close friends and colleagues, the people we really trust. Weak ties are
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From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner AND THEN, FROM wherever it is that they come from, there came another moment. Not long after A Long Day’s Dying was published, a man I scarcely knew asked me to have lunch with him. He was one of the ministers who
From “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation” by Parker J. Palmer Vocation at its deepest level is not, “Oh, boy, do I want to go to this strange place where I have to learn a new way to live and where no one, including me, understands what I’m doing.” Vocation at
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The word of this decade is TRUST An excellent article by Mark Schaefer
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From “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life” by Richard Rohr In legends and literature, sacrifice of something to achieve something else is almost the only pattern. Dr. Faust has to sell his soul to the devil to achieve power and knowledge. Sleeping Beauty must sleep for a hundred years before she
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