Barbara Sher’s Refuse to Choose is less a self-help manual than a quiet rebellion against one of modern life’s most persistent moral fictions: that a meaningful person must become one thing, permanently, and then remain legible to everyone else. Her central argument is generous and radical. She refuses to treat curiosity as a flaw, breadth … Continue reading T.A.E.’s (The Adaptable Educator) Book Review – Refuse to Choose: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams by Barbara Sher
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Renaissance Soul by Margaret Lobenstine
Margaret Lobenstine’s Renaissance Soul speaks directly to a contemporary psychological species: the person who delights in more than one thing and hates the shrink-wrap of a single career identity. Rather than treating multi-interest lives as a problem to be cured, Lobenstine treats them as a design challenge—one that asks readers to reconfigure time, narrative, and … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Renaissance Soul by Margaret Lobenstine
The Renaissance Soul by M. Lobenstine (Monday’s Movers)
The Renaissance Soul: Life Design for People with Too Many Passions to Pick Just One by Margaret Lobenstine I can't begin to describe the blessing of having found and read this book. On this journey of self-discovery, we are taking it has leaped me forward in ways I newly realize daily. It is written with love, … Continue reading The Renaissance Soul by M. Lobenstine (Monday’s Movers)
Odds & Ends – An Exercise in Gratitude
During a recent conversation with a close friend, I was lamenting my lot in life and dramatically sharing my existential crisis in regards to that perfectly defeatist question: “What am I doing with my life?” Thank goodness he didn’t slap me in the face and scream in my face to snap out of it! He … Continue reading Odds & Ends – An Exercise in Gratitude
The New Renaissance Mindset 