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Re: Find my purpose…

Brent Ashley — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 13:59:07 -0000

I think Dave's hinting he wants one of these for Christmas! 
 
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Re: Find my purpose…

bryce johnson — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 13:15:07 -0000

I'm confident we'll all find our way. I feel that this past year has been very enriching and I hope things will get better. 
 
On a weirder note I took <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo..." target="_blank">this picture</a> a couple weeks ago. 
 
Look on the wall.

Re: Find my purpose…

Mark Kuznicki — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 05:18:33 -0000

MeaningCamp is a great idea! Just in time for all those New Year's resolutions. 
 
Meaning-making and sense-making is a contact sport. I know that my sense of myself and my role in the world has been absolutely informed by what you began with the very first BarCamp event in Toronto, the people I met and the blogs I read. 
 
It is also an iterative process that benefits from articulation and testing against the real world.

Re: Find my purpose…

davidcrow — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 03:40:30 -0000

Thanks Patrick, 
 
I think we're all struggling to find meaning and do it in the context of having lives. Tara <a href="http://www.horsepigcow.com/..." target="_blank">talks</a> about 'loosing her mojo'. <a href="http://www.billionswithzero..." target="_blank">Austin</a> is making crunchier peanut butter, managing his time and making his efforts count. <a href="http://remarkk.com/2006/12/..." target="_blank">Mark</a> started all of the thinking about who I am, what I want to do, who I want to do it for, how I should do it, and how I make a living. 
 
I want to have a family, to leave a long-term legacy behind for them. I used to think that this was a monetary legacy. Which is definitely a legacy. You can see the legacies in the Rockerfellers, the Carnegies, the Mellons, the Morgans, etc. <a href="http://paul.kedrosky.com/ar..." target="_blank">Paul</a> includes a recommendation for <a href="http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/06..." target="_blank">Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World&...</a> (which will be a fun read over the holidays). <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/i..." target="_blank">Bob Hunter</a> has left a legacy. What will be my legacy?

Re: Find my purpose…

Patrick Dinnen — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 02:15:06 -0000

What's with all the purpose searching? Jevon seems to be doing it over <a href="http://socialwrite.com/?p=112" target="_blank">here</a> too. 
 
Recently I've been asking myself 'what/why do I want to be when I grow up?'. But I assumed it was just my approaching 1-year self-employed and 30 years alive that caused that. Must be something in the water though. 
 
Perhaps there's a market for MeaningCamp Toronto :) 
 
Whatever you decide about your Toronto improvement mission/career/year, I'd like to say thank you for what you've done so far. Being part of the Torcamp community has been a good thing for me in various ways.

Re: Find my purpose…

missrogue — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:55:20 -0000

Rock on David! 
 
We miss you guys.Things going well, then?