From “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life” by Richard Rohr When I say that you will enter the second half of life, I don’t mean it is a strictly chronological way. Some young people, especially those who have learned from early suffering, are already there, and some older folks are still …
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From “Embracing Your Second Calling: Find Passion and Purpose for the Rest of Your Life” by Dale Hanson Bourke Today, more than forty million women in the U.S. are considered to be in “midlife.” Those ages forty and over make up more than half of the female population in America, according to the U.S. Census …
From “How Will You Measure Your Life?” by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon This may sound counterintuitive, but I deeply believe that the path to happiness in a relationship is not just about finding someone who you think is going to make you happy. Rather, the reverse is equally true: the path …
From “Cumulative Advantage: How to Build Momentum for Your Ideas, Business, and Life Against All Odds” by Mark W. Schaefer Since Merton’s original paper debuted more than 50 years ago, the Matthew Effect is also more commonly referred to as Cumulative Advantage. The most accepted description of this idea is that the advantage of one …
From “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success” by Adam Grant If politics can be fertile ground for givers, it’s possible that givers can succeed in any job. Whether giving is effective, though, depends on the particular kind of exchange in which it’s employed. This is one important feature of giving to keep …
From “How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion” by David McRaney As the decade came to a close, a New York Times op-ed titled “The Age of Post-Truth Politics” argued that democracy itself was now in danger because facts had “lost their ability to support consensus.” The New Yorker examined “Why …
From “Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life” by Luke Burgis Mimetic desire tends to move in one of two cycles. Cycle 1 is the negative cycle, in which mimetic desire leads to rivalry and conflict. This cycle runs on the false belief that other people have something that we don’t have and …
From “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation” by Parker J. Palmer But if I am to let my life speak things I want to hear, things I would gladly tell others, I must also let it speak things I do not want to hear and would never tell anyone else! My …