http://skinnerlayne.com Contemplative Capitalist Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:18:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://skinnerlayne.com/2011/09/24/discernment-and-risk-taking/#comment-21 Risk-Taking and Love | Skinner Layne Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:18:50 +0000 http://skinnerlayne.com/?p=24#comment-21 [...] In our process of becoming, we are either growing or decaying, and there are few other conditions in our lives that drive us to growth than true love: both for ourselves and for others.  Indeed, love is a necessary precondition for growth even when it is not the primary driver. But this has been discussed already, and we shall leave it at that for the time being. Instead, our present discussion will revolve around the nature and pragmatics of love, as Peck defines it, and especially the need to take risks for the sake of others (we have covered risk-taking for the self in Discernment and Risk-Taking). [...] [...] In our process of becoming, we are either growing or decaying, and there are few other conditions in our lives that drive us to growth than true love: both for ourselves and for others.  Indeed, love is a necessary precondition for growth even when it is not the primary driver. But this has been discussed already, and we shall leave it at that for the time being. Instead, our present discussion will revolve around the nature and pragmatics of love, as Peck defines it, and especially the need to take risks for the sake of others (we have covered risk-taking for the self in Discernment and Risk-Taking). [...]

]]> http://skinnerlayne.com/2011/09/20/time-my-coy-mistress/#comment-20 Risk-Taking and Love | Skinner Layne Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:14:30 +0000 http://skinnerlayne.com/?p=16#comment-20 [...] In our process of becoming, we are either growing or decaying, and there are few other conditions in our lives that drive us to growth than true love: both for ourselves and for others.  Indeed, love is a necessary precondition for growth even when it is not the primary driver. But this has been discussed already, and we shall leave it at that for the time being. Instead, our present discussion will revolve around the nature and pragmatics of love, as Peck defines it, and especially the need to take risks for the sake of others (we have covered risk-taking for the self in Discernment and Risk-Taking). [...] [...] In our process of becoming, we are either growing or decaying, and there are few other conditions in our lives that drive us to growth than true love: both for ourselves and for others.  Indeed, love is a necessary precondition for growth even when it is not the primary driver. But this has been discussed already, and we shall leave it at that for the time being. Instead, our present discussion will revolve around the nature and pragmatics of love, as Peck defines it, and especially the need to take risks for the sake of others (we have covered risk-taking for the self in Discernment and Risk-Taking). [...]

]]> http://skinnerlayne.com/2011/09/25/becoming-and-belonging/#comment-17 Becoming Hospitable in Society | Skinner Layne Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:35:08 +0000 http://skinnerlayne.com/?p=27#comment-17 [...] I discussed in Becoming and Belonging, our individual process of growth is dependent on others. But in order to free ourselves from [...] [...] I discussed in Becoming and Belonging, our individual process of growth is dependent on others. But in order to free ourselves from [...]

]]> http://skinnerlayne.com/2011/09/24/discernment-and-risk-taking/#comment-15 Becoming and Belonging | Skinner Layne Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:21:05 +0000 http://skinnerlayne.com/?p=24#comment-15 [...] The problem is not that we fail to have communitarian connections to the rest of the people in the world, but rather that we fail to recognize the connections that already exist. We fail to see ourselves as integrally connected, and hence we have misperceptions about what constitutes and benefits our own self-interest. Stock market sell-offs, for example, are not the result of atomized self-interest, but of a failure to recognize the multi-tiered effects of panic.  Recessions and systemic failures of our economy are most often caused by a malfunction in our discernment process. [...] [...] The problem is not that we fail to have communitarian connections to the rest of the people in the world, but rather that we fail to recognize the connections that already exist. We fail to see ourselves as integrally connected, and hence we have misperceptions about what constitutes and benefits our own self-interest. Stock market sell-offs, for example, are not the result of atomized self-interest, but of a failure to recognize the multi-tiered effects of panic.  Recessions and systemic failures of our economy are most often caused by a malfunction in our discernment process. [...]

]]> http://skinnerlayne.com/2011/09/20/time-my-coy-mistress/#comment-14 Becoming and Belonging | Skinner Layne Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:16:44 +0000 http://skinnerlayne.com/?p=16#comment-14 [...] individual processes of becoming do not take place in isolation, but in the midst of other people who are also in their own process [...] [...] individual processes of becoming do not take place in isolation, but in the midst of other people who are also in their own process [...]

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