Man’s Search for Meaning

Emotional Agility: A book review by Bob Morris

September 13, 2016

Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life Susan David Avery Publishing (September 2016) How to loosen up, calm, down and live with more intention amidst all the distractions Long ago I realized that I could…

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What it means to be a human being

August 19, 2014

Opinions are divided as to what it means to be a human being. Here are several perspectives that are of special interest and value to me: “The satisfactions of manifesting oneself concretely in the world through manual competence have been…

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Who is Ernest Becker and what is his relevance to today’s business world?

January 1, 2013

Ernest Becker (1924-1974) was a cultural anthropologist and interdisciplinary scientific thinker and writer. He is probably most famous for one of his nine books, Denial of Death, published in 1973 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 (for general non-fiction)…

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Victor Frankl provides something to think about this weekend.

June 15, 2012

For most of us, weekends provide an opportunity to take a rest from thinking about weekday concerns and consider less urgent – but perhaps more important – issues. For example: “Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his…

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