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This past December, Joel Dehlin, spotlighted the book Leadership and Self-Deception, by The Arbinger Institute. At Joel’s suggestion, I picked up a copy, but, owing to other events and the misassumption that it was just a business book, I ended up placing it on a shelf not to be looked at for several months. Some time later, as I was browsing through amazon, I was looking at their entry for The Peacegiver, and I noticed Leadership and Self-Deception listed in the “Customers who bought this also bought” section of the page.

I was instantly intrigued, and proceeded to click around. “Oh look, the guy who wrote Peacegiver is the managing director of Arbinger, and oh, hey, that other book that my friend sent me, Bonds that Make Us Free, is by C. Terry Warner, and look, here in the intro he tells the story of how Arbinger came to be. Hmm, what’s this whole Arbinger thing about?” Click, click, “hmm, interesting.” Click, click, click, “oh, my husband might really dig this.” (He’s in the midst of what, for lack of better terminology is a kind of moral philosophy research project in his spare time.) “Click, click, hey there’s more; this looks great. I’m defnitely giving it to Robert.”
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Though my body still draws inviolable (and intolerable!) limits on my activity from time to time, I am pronouncing myself “more or less all better.” One of the consulting surgeons on my case told me that after six weeks, I’d be ‘better’ at 80% of my usual capacity, but that it’d be about 4 months until I was a full 100% again. Considering I volunteered to help teach a routine to the Beehives in my ward and proceeded to not just dance, but full-on hype the routine to a room of tweens and early teens (never an easy task) to the point that I got them to really sell it with me for an hour and a half last wednesday, I’d say this 80% is serving me pretty well. Ok, so, um, that much dancing definitely helped me get to know some of those limits (I paid for it for a day or two afterward), but still, I did it, and it–felt–great!!

Come to think of it, this 80% is serving me so well, in fact, that I’m going to shut this silly laptop and go engage my day. I suggest you do the same.

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