Some posts to consider for your reading this week.
Life and Leadership:
- The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn. Our love for telling tales reveals the workings of the mind
- Seth Godin has a new book out entitled, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us.
- What Makes Life Worth Living. A look at what brings meaning to life from the folks at Lifehack.
- Numbers Guy: Are Our Brains Wired for Math? The author describes how humans have an inbuilt “number sense” capable of some basic calculations and estimates. The problems start when we learn mathematics and have to perform procedures that are anything but instinctive.
- Seeing is Hearing: New Type of Synesthesia Discovered. For some, visual movement triggers a perception of sound
Church and Ministry:
- Get a Life: The Church as a Living System by Alan Hirsch.
- The Problems with Institutions, Part 1 and 2 by Alan Hirsch.
- Incense May Act as a Psychoactive Drug during Religious Ceremony. Scientific America Mind
