Wonder Vs. Awe (Week 13)

I really appreciate Professor Helen de Cruz’s perspective of wonder and awe and their notable similarities and even more significant differences. They are both deep, impactful emotions that are prompted by experiences that you couldn’t have predicted before they took place.

The Burnout Society.

“The capitalist economy absolutizes survival. It is not concerned with the good life.”

I am neither an expert in business nor on the world’s economic status. Still, from the economics class I took in my senior year of high school, I learned that capitalism isn’t…

w“Why Work?”

Growing up, my dad always told me “Find something you love because you will have to do it for the rest of your life.” I feel like that relates to the reading from this week. In the text, the author writes “…work is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do” (p. 192). The…

Week 14

Work is such an interesting topic. For blog post 14 I will be talking about the reading Marcha Sinetar Chapter 1 from her book Do What You Love and the Money Will Follow. There are roughly 161.4 million people in the us that are employed while only 6.4 million are unemployed. There are so many factors that play…

Multitasking (WEEK 15)

“We owe the cultural achievements of humanity — which include philosophy — to deep, contemplative attention.”

I found the “Profound Boredom” excerpt from The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han particularly interesting while reading. My entire life I have been…

Livelihood (Week 14)

When reading the expert from Marsha Sinetar’s “Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow” this week, one paragraph specifically stuck out to me. Sinetar wrote, “Right livelihood, in both its ancient and its contemporary sense, embodies self-expression, commitment, mindfulness, and conscious…

Grace as a part of the Human Experience (Week 12)

I found this particular quote from Bonhoeffer intriguing, “Human beings experience the divine grace that claims them. It is not human beings who seek out grace in its place, for God lives in unapproachable light (1 Tim. 6:16). Instead, grace…

Why is burnout more prevalent now?

It seems that nowadays it is more frequent to hear about people being burnt out in their careers than in the past, but why is that? I hear older people saying that the next generation “does not want to work” and while I want to quickly defend my generation i believe…

#weektwelvethoughts

For this week’s reading, I chose Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer, and I really enjoyed this reading because of the theme and the way that the author was able to tell her truth in such a vivid and raw way. My favourite quote from this reading, though, wasn’t actually directly from her. I…

#weekfourteenthoughts

Upon choosing the Marsha Sinetar reading, I found myself relating heavily to the experience she shared about feeling unfulfilled by her job of selling vacuum cleaners due to her social anxiety and lack of interest in the task. I’ve always exceptionally struggled with completing tasks that…