Elevating the Human Experience

Appendix B

Reading Guide and Reflection Questions

Introduction

• Elevating the Human Experience is about acknowledging intrinsic worth as a human, and nurturing growth through love.
• This book is focused on the impact of the human experience and the paths to love and worth in the workplace that ultimately contribute to better performance.
• There are four key reasons why elevating the human experience is necessary:
  1. Because the fundamental human condition is one of suffering
  2. Because workplaces have exacerbated, if not created, the problems of burnout, lack of inclusion, lack of diversity, and lack of meaning and purpose
  3. Because it leads to more productive and creative outcomes at work
  4. Because of what I call the intrinsic worthiness gap, the gap between how much it matters to us to feel worthy and how hard we struggle to do so

FOUNDATIONS

Chapter 1: Work

Key Takeaways

• Work provides an opportunity for us to continually make ourselves and enhance our capacity for love.
• There are five main ways that work has become twisted and distorted, lacking love and worth:
  1. When we separate our humanity from our work, and workers become automatons instead of whole humans
  2. When we prize our head over our heart, and our IQ matters more than our EQ
  3. When we form hierarchies at work that exert power over others
  4. When we overwork, and work consumes the space where rest and leisure belong
  5. When the exchange of labor for pay is inequitable and does not recognize the value of the worker
• While ...