Treat a book as a person. 

• What is most significant about a given book? 
• Find what resonates with you in a book and skim the rest. 

What have you learned from different books that have made an impact in your life? 

Do you keep track of the books that you have read?

What patterns do you see in your reading? 

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Themes that Ray resonated with this book.

• The power of an individual standing up against the status quo. 
• The dignity of the individual.
• The morality of self-interest.

Also mentioned:

The Road Less Traveled Scott M. Peck

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer

Quaker belief of letting your life speak…before you tell your life what you want to be, listen to your life and see what it wants to be.

The Promise of Paradox by Parker Palmer (At the heart of everything is its own opposite.)

The Sacred Journey by Fredrick Buechner

Telling Secrets 

All truth is understood through our own stories

As we understand ourselves, we can understand life. 

Deep Change by Robert Quinn

One of two directions, deep change or slow death.

Change takes place to the extent that the leader is willing to change. 

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert 

Serious and playful about the discipline of creativity

Fear rides in the backseat

Fear is a great source of energy, fear is part of the fuel. 

Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership by Joseph Jaworski

A sense of connection and alignment. 

The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek

Two kinds of games in life, finite games, and infinite games.

Finite games have an end. 

Infinite games have no endpoint, rather it’s how you play the game. 

How do you win a game that has no end? 

Serious Play is an infinite game.  

Learn more about Serious Play from Ray here.  

Transitions by William Bridges

Endings, neural zones, and new beginnings. 

Neutral zones and full of questions and not filled with answers.