From “The Discipline of Inspiration: The Mysterious Encounter with God at the Heart of Creativity” by Carey Wallace Even when we don’t have much talent or technique, inspiration, on its own, can provoke strange and beautiful pieces. But inspiration doesn’t just speak in narrow categories of art. It speaks to all os us, in all […]
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From “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything” by Stephen M. R. Covey Consider another example, The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed in the U.S. in response to the Enron, WorldCom, and other corporate scandals. While it appears that Sarbanes-Oxley may be having a positive effect in improving or at least sustaining trust
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From “Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust” by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith In researching how we wanted to talk about trust agents and how we would impart the information to you, we’ve defined six overarching but interrelated behaviors that describe what a trust agent is. We realized
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From “Sacred Compass: The Way of Spiritual Discernment” by J. Brent Bill Living into an increasing understanding of God’s ever-presence is how we can pray along with Thomas Merton: My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where
From “On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old” by Parker J. Palmer Take on big jobs worth doing, jobs like the spread of love, peace, and justice. That means refusing to be seduced by our cultural obsession with being effective as measured by short-term results. We all want our work to make
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From “Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Help Others, Do Work that Matters, and Make Smarter Choices About Giving Back” by William Macaskill Over the last few years at 80,000 Hours, we’ve coached hundreds of people like Peter, as well as people later in their careers, most of whom find the following
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From “We Become What We Normalize: What We Owe Each Other in Worlds That Demand Our Silence” by David Dark Consider this. In October 2016, the American public was made privy to an Access Hollywood audio recording of then candidate Donal Trump offering a detailed, gloating, and graphic description of his own act of sexual
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From “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation” by Parker J. Palmer The first shadow-casting monster is insecurity about identity and worth. Many leaders have an extroverted personality that makes this shadow hard to see. But extroversion sometimes develops as a way to cope with self-doubt: we plunge into external activity to
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