HeyJaredThe Wonder HUB
In a world where cynicism can spread like a virus, wonder could be your advantage to pursue impactful work and a meaningful life over the long run. A community and newsletter from researcher, author, and strategist Jeffrey Davis.
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Annie Dillard and the Wonder of Attention (Shot of Wonder #30) (opens the original)
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“The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.”“Experiencing the present purely is being emptied and hollow; you catch the grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.”I first read Annie Dillard when I was all of 22, perhaps, wide-eyed and eager to learn how to write well and how to live well. From Dillard, I learned both. Like William Carlos Williams (of red wheelbarrow repute), Dillard drew me i
Wonder Village Experienced (opens the original)
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Dear Wonder Tracker,Recently, I showed up at summer camp a bit mortified. My Young Genius vanished, and my inner little boy appeared instead. But within an hour, those roles reversed, and I experienced the most sustained open, surprising, and buoyant fun I have had in a long time.When was the last time you played all day? Or all weekend? I mean, really played and played well and played meaningfully? With others?I did so for four days. Completely out of my comfort zone at first and dropped soon i
Shot of Wonder #29: The Wonder Village on Substack (opens the original)
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Dear Wonder-Tracker:This is a bonus Shot of Wonder for you outside of the biweekly Wonder Dispatch and my more practical-driven writing. Not too long ago - while on a plane to Nashville - I pulled out my notebook and wrote in large letters on a blank page, “WONDER VILLAGE” and then drew a circle around it. Then five lines emerging from the circle. Something’s emerging there, but that was as far as I got.Yet at its best, Substack seems like a Wonder Village. If you can cut beyond the AI chatter t
What Still Holds Us Together (opens the original)
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Dear Change-Maker,You’ve likely heard the Greek thinker Heraclitus’s fragment, “Change is the only constant.”I have generally accepted that fact since I studied and first started trying to live philosophy in grad school.And then came COVID-19 and the aftermath of the ensuing years that upended so much. Lots of change in how we work, how we gather, how we show up for one another, and how we pursue meaningful work while the world keeps shifting beneath our feet. You know, for starters.During the p
Conditions for Better Thinking & Collaboration (opens the original)
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Dear Change-Maker:On this morning’s walk, a warm breeze brushed the leaves into some kind of light applause, an applause, I’d say, for all the life busting forth despite the odds. Two tiny orange butterflies swirled around each other, never touching until one and then the other landed on purple wildflowers. Four steps down the road, a bee lit on a white wildflower. Life spreads.If I’m not attentive this way, my thought loops can spiral in on themselves, but this sensual world calls my mind out o
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