Writing to Change the World by Mary Pipfer, the newest book from the author of Reviving Ophelia and The Middle of Everywhere. I'm half way through and excited, because Mary is challenging me, my mind, my thought process. She is reminding me that most of us humans do not use 10% of our brains during the day, and maybe only 5% at night.
She is reminding me of a truism I remember occasionally, and what many folks experience through meditation, that we are not using out time wisely, we are not thinking deeply, we are not contemplating the world around us, under us and through which we are traveling for the most part like sleep walkers. We need to do this.
Do this now. Read a book that sounds like it could help you as a person be more effective, be more caring, be healthier, and believe me when I tell you that it will help you in your work as a decision maker for your organization.
Read stories, listen to stories, consider how we use this oldest form of communication, captured thousands and thousands of years ago on cave walls and stone etchings. The why comes long after understanding the "what".
I am balancing my reading this week between Mary's Writing to Change the World and Karen Armstrong's A Brief History of Myth. Are these primers in business management? Do they say "read this to learn what type of leader you are" or "thirty-second elevator speeches"? No.
But believe me, we have to first go back to learning to really think, contemplate, before we can benefit from 30 second speeches. Because hopefully someone is going to ask you a lot more about your organization after that 30 seconds. And you want to interest them, you want them to become really interested. And you need to be interesting yourself.
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