Wheatley opens the book by making a case for change - "...in an increasingly dark time...it is difficult to do good and lasting work...in any country and in any type of work, we are being asked to work faster, more competitively, more selfishly - and to focus on the short-term...these values cannot lead to anything healthy and sustainable, and they are alarmingly destructive. We may feel distressed, overwhelmed, numbed and afraid - we are living in a time when countless people are losing their faith in people and their futures. But beneath these feelings, we still desire learning, freedom, meaning and love...and people are still basically good and caring."
Wheatley has studied distress in "tens of thousands of people" - - in Part One she explains that human conversation is the oldest and easiest way to generate conditions for change. In Part Two, she shares quotes and images to support Part One. In Part 3, she shares questions and background on questions that may be "conversation starters" to generate change in oneself and others, including:
(1) Do I feel a vocation to be fully human?
(2) What is my faith in the future?
(3) What do I believe about others?
(4) What am I willing to notice in my world?
(5) When have I experienced good listening?
(6) Am I willing to reclaim time to think?
(7) What is the relationship I want with the earth?
(8) What is my unique contribution to the whole?
(9) When have I experienced working for the common good?
(10) When do I experience sacred?
(11) What is our role in creating change?
(12) Can I be fearless?
My recap of the book:
1. This is a simple but important book. Especially in these times.
2. The book is Soothing. (Very) You find your blood pressure slowing as you turn the pages.
3. The book is beautifully presented. Not jammed top-to-bottom with theories, references and words for sake of filling pages. Plenty of white space along with deep, relevant, thoughtful quotations.
4. The author explains the what, the why, and most importantly the how. She forces you to step back, pause and think. She offers up simple but powerful solutions and questions to rediscover humanity.
Reading this book makes you appreciate being human - and Wheatley makes you appreciate that life is sacred and that we have much to be hopeful for.
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