“Most people don’t form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.”
– David Brooks, in a New York Times column from May, 2011 — and as cited in Pendulum, by Roy H. Williams (2012)
Re-reading this really compelling book by Roy Williams (The Wizard of Ads), and it casts a clear perspective for people set on making a difference. It was my 2012 Christmas gift to clients and associates, and it not only casts perspective for difference makers, it captures and contextualizes the huge majority of what is going on with and around us.
For today, let’s focus on the perspective for difference makers, as Williams captured in Brooks’ words…
First, we ought to form a self and only then lead a life. Second, but not by much, we ought to seek out a problem that we’re passionate about and committed to solving. As Brooks so eloquently states in, in doing so, we build out our best self.
More on Pendulum as the Diff rolls through this week.
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