Hi Mollie, much thanks for this article and for your podcast. Me: 62 yo father of 2, retired CPA/software & distribution exec. My journey has been a bit like yours. I alternate between internalized workaholism and occasional externalized dysfunction. Read hundreds of books over the last 20 years.. Unquestionably my two go-to, dog-eared, well-worn favorites are Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning and Daniel N. Robinson's An Intellectual History of Psychology, especially the latter's 1986 edition from University of Wisconsin Press (before Robinson got Ivy-league edited). The main idea from Robinson is that two of the most pervasive confusions of the Western world are: (a.) mind is brain, and (b.) behavior is conditioned. Anyway, both works have meant the world to me. As does your podcast, which gets better every edition. All the best my friend
Love, love, LOVE this! There's so much to chew on, but the nature of meaning and how we create/observe/massage it reminds me of something my Vedic astrologer teacher said about dharma - dharma is how we create meaning out of our experience. Dharma, in our Calvinist, Capitalist culture, gets relegated to one's career, but it's more accurate to say it's our quiddity, our is-ness, the essential nature of ourselves that may or may not have anything to do with how we pay the bills. How we craft a story, how we craft a meaning from a lifetime of experience helps define, or perhaps better, reveal our essential nature. Thanks for this post!
Hi Mollie, much thanks for this article and for your podcast. Me: 62 yo father of 2, retired CPA/software & distribution exec. My journey has been a bit like yours. I alternate between internalized workaholism and occasional externalized dysfunction. Read hundreds of books over the last 20 years.. Unquestionably my two go-to, dog-eared, well-worn favorites are Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning and Daniel N. Robinson's An Intellectual History of Psychology, especially the latter's 1986 edition from University of Wisconsin Press (before Robinson got Ivy-league edited). The main idea from Robinson is that two of the most pervasive confusions of the Western world are: (a.) mind is brain, and (b.) behavior is conditioned. Anyway, both works have meant the world to me. As does your podcast, which gets better every edition. All the best my friend
Love, love, LOVE this! There's so much to chew on, but the nature of meaning and how we create/observe/massage it reminds me of something my Vedic astrologer teacher said about dharma - dharma is how we create meaning out of our experience. Dharma, in our Calvinist, Capitalist culture, gets relegated to one's career, but it's more accurate to say it's our quiddity, our is-ness, the essential nature of ourselves that may or may not have anything to do with how we pay the bills. How we craft a story, how we craft a meaning from a lifetime of experience helps define, or perhaps better, reveal our essential nature. Thanks for this post!