Enough with how. I want to know why.
A couple years ago, I encountered a book called The Answer to How is Yes, by Peter Block. It's on my list of books you should not read if you don't want your life to change.
We live in an era of self-help, an age of information, a culture of how-to. While this can be a blessing in some ways, it can also be a crutch. We can become addicted to "improvement," to perfectionism. We can get so caught up in asking how that we forget to ask an even more important question:
Our obsession with how can lead us to only do what's easy or what's been proven. But what if our intention is to change the way things are? To make a difference? To be a contribution?
If that's our goal then we need to ask different questions. We need a different approach, a different mindset. We cannot rely on how. We must dare to ask why instead. To wonder what matters. To trust the inspiration we receive and then--
A couple years ago, I encountered a book called The Answer to How is Yes, by Peter Block. It's on my list of books you should not read if you don't want your life to change.
We live in an era of self-help, an age of information, a culture of how-to. While this can be a blessing in some ways, it can also be a crutch. We can become addicted to "improvement," to perfectionism. We can get so caught up in asking how that we forget to ask an even more important question:
Why?
What matters?
What's worth doing?
Our obsession with how can lead us to only do what's easy or what's been proven. But what if our intention is to change the way things are? To make a difference? To be a contribution?
If that's our goal then we need to ask different questions. We need a different approach, a different mindset. We cannot rely on how. We must dare to ask why instead. To wonder what matters. To trust the inspiration we receive and then--
to act on it.
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