Our Life Markers
Who are those people that have had the greatest influence on who we are today? What are the events that have shaped our life?
Robert Greenleaf mentions five that had a profound influence on him at various stages in his life:
Five ideas seem to me to have shaped the course of my life work. They were the servant model of my father in my early years; the advice of my professor to get into a large institution, stay there, and become a meliorative force; at age twenty-five, beginning to read E.B. White, sensing his great art of seeing things whole, and learning to practice that art; the advice of Elmer Davis at age forty to begin then to prepare for a useful old age; and at age sixty-five reading Herman Hesse's Journey to the East and seeing the vivid dramatization of the servant as leader. These ideas sustained me in my work from youth onward and have had increasing force as I have grown older.
If you had to list them, what are five ideas, or markers, that have shaped your life? What has sustained you in your work? As you reflect back, who/what has had a growing impact on you as you have grown older?
Robert Greenleaf mentions five that had a profound influence on him at various stages in his life:
Five ideas seem to me to have shaped the course of my life work. They were the servant model of my father in my early years; the advice of my professor to get into a large institution, stay there, and become a meliorative force; at age twenty-five, beginning to read E.B. White, sensing his great art of seeing things whole, and learning to practice that art; the advice of Elmer Davis at age forty to begin then to prepare for a useful old age; and at age sixty-five reading Herman Hesse's Journey to the East and seeing the vivid dramatization of the servant as leader. These ideas sustained me in my work from youth onward and have had increasing force as I have grown older.
If you had to list them, what are five ideas, or markers, that have shaped your life? What has sustained you in your work? As you reflect back, who/what has had a growing impact on you as you have grown older?
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