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I found the professional businessman’s ego more resistant to change than the professional athlete’s. The best athletes seek continuous improvement in their own performance and seek out and welcome help from coaches. But in the corporate hierarchies, even if time could be found to coach others, it was rare to find people who sought coaching for themselves.
The Inner Game of Work
W. Timothy Gallwey
Becker’s radical conclusion that it is our altruistic motives that turn the world into a charnel house—our desire to merge with a larger whole, to dedicate our lives to a higher cause, to serve cosmic powers—poses a disturbing and revolutionary question to every individual and nation. At what cost do we purchase the assurance that we are heroic?
The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker
Much of that chance or incidental mingling has ended. Men’s clubs and societies have steadily disappeared. Grandfathers live in Phoenix or the old people’s home, and many boys experience only the companionship of other boys their age who, from the point of view of the old initiators, know nothing at all.
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