❧ Eric Portelance

One of the best episodes of Attention Surplus yet. A discussion about vocation and purpose. What are you at heart? What do you want to be when you grow up?

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“What do I want to be when I grow up?” That’s the question on the cover of the little book that first drew our attention to this week’s guest. Pat Thompson is a leadership consultant, Metcalf Foundation Innovation Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Massey College.

She visited our living room studio to talk about vocation and good work, the value of being stuck, and the vital importance of reflection and good conversation.

The notebook, available at Dark Horse Espresso in Toronto, contains other deep questions and thought-provoking quotes — and, of course, plenty of space to reflect.

Links for this episode:

• Pat’s website One Alpha Avenue
• Frederick Buechner, writer and theologian
• Wendell Berry’s essay “Conservation is Good Work” (PDF)
• Parker Palmer, author and activist
• “Is Your Job Your Calling” (Fast Company)
• “The Way It Is” by William Stafford (“There’s a thread you follow”)

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New week, new episode of North America’s favourite podcast about shame, doubt, and regret. ;)

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This is as close as you’ll get to New Year’s resolutions from us: Eric talks about how he came to write a self-critical personal manifesto for 2012, and Sean offers his theory of a “threshold of distasteful actions” as one of the roots of procrastination.

Next week, we dig into Eric’s manifesto. 

We mention: 

• Sean’s New Year’s Eve exercise for recognizing your accomplishments
• Episode 42, with Jon Crowley
• Episode 38: Valuing What You Do
• the Inbox Zero method

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