From Crisis to Calling by Sasha Chanoff & David Chanoff

Author:Sasha Chanoff & David Chanoff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 2016-09-07T16:00:00+00:00

Sasha was truly caught in a crucible, with many lives in the balance. People in other walks of life face decisions that are similarly critical: first responders, triage physicians, soldiers in combat. But these are likewise out of the ordinary. Does the exceptionality of Sasha’s situation mean that it has little significance for most of us? We believe the opposite is true. The underlying features of Sasha and Sheikha’s decision, and how they arrived at it, are universal.

The stories in Part II are by and about people who have been through their own crucibles, stories that illuminate elements of the critical decision pathway we’ve defined. The accounts we’re presenting in this section are about people from various walks of life, all of whom we have interviewed, most of whom we know well. A distinguished business professor is here; a Navy SEAL; a former US surgeon general; a family doctor; a senior aid agency officer; two CEOs, one a Holocaust survivor, one a technology guru.

Some accounts are longer than others, but we have tried to present all of them so that the contexts of our contributors’ decision points are fleshed out and our contributors themselves come across in something approaching full-face portraits. Not all of the narratives illustrate all the principles in our five-step pathway, but each, we think, is powerful in terms of its own focus.

The stories in this section are contextualized with discussions of current research about how morality is a hardwired component of our essential selves. Finally, we address the potential of altruistic or empathetic decision making to spark personal transformations that can, at times, lead to lifetime callings.

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