At the Intersection with Doug Newton
How can you engage our culture with influential wisdom, character and grace? In each episode Doug Newton offers one observation about our contemporary culture, one biblical insight that speaks to that issue and one creative take-away to help listeners pursue and practice character traits that help them make a positive impact in their corner of the world. He's a 45-year pastor, national award-winning magazine editor and author of 24 books. In this podcast he puts all that experience and communication skill together with one goal: helping good people become better.
At the Intersection with Doug Newton
GET OVER YOUR “SELF” (Part 3 of the Admiration Series)
GET OVER YOUR "SELF"
Self-oriented. Self-reliant. Self-conscious. Self-centered. Self-absorbed. Self-ish. All these words represent different degrees of egocentricity. If you think you can get your “self” out of the center of your life, you’ll be fighting a losing battle. After all, everything you feel, think, do and experience happens to you, in you, around you and no one else. You’re always going to be in the center. Somehow you have to not be so preoccupied with your self though. In this episode I’ll point you in a helpful direction to make space for other interests than self-interest, which is where admiration begins and good character develops.
This is the third in a series of four episodes dealing with the all-important role of admiration in the process of developing and improving your character. If you missed the first two and what to check out the video version go to the following links.
Episode 11: Admire Admiration
Episode 12: Too Pre-occupied?
https://youtu.be/aMBXelpc8dc
In this episode I refer to a book by David Brooks, "The Road to Character" and highly recommended. Check it out at https://fresh-impact.com/recommended-resources