Monday Musings (4/22/19)

Hey everybody, 

Welcome back to Monday Musings. I have many ideas to share with you this week:

First and most importantly, sales for my online course Write of Passage close on Wednesday (April 24) at 11PM EST. 

The goal of the course is simple: I’ll give you the tools to accelerate your career by writing online. 

Write of Passage is divided into seven modules:

1. The Age of Leverage

2. Make Your Serendipity Vehicle

3. Create Your Online Home

4. Set up Your Distribution System

5. Learn to Write Clearly and Persuasively

6. Connect with Anyone

7. Build Your Personal Monopoly

These are the seven essential elements of success for publishing written content online.

By the end of the course, you’ll have (1) a repeatable system for writing consistently, (2) a collection of published articles, (3) a professional website, and (4) a method to distribute your ideas directly to friends and colleagues. 

If you’re curious about Write of Passage, I have three links for you to explore: 

1. The Write of Passage Website

2. Write of Passage Email Overview

3. The Ultimate Guide to Writing Online

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The Other Ideas

1. On Friendship and Conversation: Like music, the rhythm of conversation is built on both sound and silence. When you first listen to a song, you listen to what’s loudest: the words and the beat. But after repeated listens, your attention shifts towards the pitch, the pacing, and the intermittent, pin-drop silences. Likewise, when you first meet somebody, you listen to what they say. But over time, as the friendship grows stronger and stronger, you listen to what they don’t say. Words become silent. You listen not just with your ears, but with your eyes; you listen for the subtle movements that reveal the essence of emotion: the taps of the feet, the twitch of the fingers, and the flicker of the eyes. Ultimately, the more communication happens in silence, the deeper the relationship.

2. Questioning Christianity: I just finished a 7-week live Questioning Christianity lecture series with Tim Keller at Redeemer Church in New York City. We discussed meaning, satisfaction, identity, morality, justice, hope, faith, and proof of God — all from a Christian perspective. The lectures were so good that I’ve joined a Christianity-focused discussion group, which meets every Friday night. If you want to follow along, I recommend Keller’s books and his YouTube videos on Making Sense of God and The Reason for God. Whether you’re religious, atheist,