Top 10 Life Lessons (Last Lecture Series) (YouTube - Stanford Graduate School of Business)
'Life has a lot of chapters. The story is still being written...'
'Life is an endless unfolding, and if we wish it to be, an endless process of self-discovery, an endless and unpredictable dialogue between our own potentialities and the life situations in which we find ourselves. By potentialities I mean not just performance gifts but the full range of one's capacities for learning, sensing, wondering, understanding, loving and aspiring...'
'You have to build meaning into your life, and you build it through your commitments - whether to your religion, to an ethical order as you conceived it, to your life's work, to loved ones, to your fellow humans. Young people run around searching for identity, but it isn't handed out free any more - not in this transient, rootless, pluralistic society. Your identity is what you've committed yourself to.'
- above quoted remarks by John W. Gardner (at age 77), on 'self-renewal', during Stanford Graduate School of Business reunion event (1989, see link below)
http://www.lisbonne.com/john_gardner.html
https://news.stanford.edu/thedish/2015/01/08/life-lessons-from-the-late-john-w-gardner-2/
https://ssir.org/books/reviews/entry/self-renewal_john_w_gardner
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