Authenticity Requires Openness
Sigmund Freud, the father of psychology, said, “Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.”
There are endless parables, quotations and teaching stories to guide us in love and work – optimizing our humanness – a great one being this by Joseph Campbell:
“Follow your bliss. If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be. If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn’t have opened for anyone else.”
Let’s explore work, your career, your profession, your calling from the perspective of being guided and motivated by love, from bliss instead of boredom, from aliveness not ennui, from curiosity not cynicism.
We’ll explore:
- Real Action versus In Traction
- Learning from the Inside Out
- The Inconvenience of Truth
- Authenticity versus Duplicity
- Self-centeredness versus WOWdom
- Radishes before Selfies
- Sparing Change for the Homeless
Central to our exploration will be the concept of
“being open for business.”
How open for business are you on the job, in the daily normalness of your career, craft, or calling? Four recognizable experiential qualities of being open for business.
Enjoyment
Connection
Hereness
Openness
So, let’s have some fun and see what develops. To begin, let’s let the bad air out.