Personal Renewal

THIS JOURNEY IN a very large sense is about agency. About how we shape it, how we tap into it, how we sustain it. Still more specifically, it’s about how we marry empowerment to our love for the world, what matters to us, what wrongs we want to right, and what collective dreams we hope to realize.

Why are we as helpless, or more so, than our ancestors were in facing the chaos that interferes with happiness? There are at least two good explanations for this failure. In the first place, the kind of knowledge—or wisdom—one needs for emancipating consciousness is not cumulative. It cannot be condensed into a formula; it cannot be memorized and t

“This journey isn't about never working again; it's about working in a way that honors who we have become. So, while Michelle and I may still engage in work, we will not be stepping into the same river because we have changed, and so has the world around us.”